CTCS 190g Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Sharper Image, Fill Light, Hairstyle

• School: USC
• Department: Cinema and Media Studies
• Course: CTCS 190g
• Professor: Drew Casper

Document Summary

Mis-en-scene everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement (sets, props, actors, costumes, composition: the arrangement of everything that appears in the framing actors, lighting, d cor, props, costume, a french term that means placing on stage . Decor: on-location, studio/stage, computer generated, props. Especially useful to actors, can enhance performance. Fill light: softens hard shadows, shows facial features. Back light: shows space and depth in terms of background. High: bright and exciting (happy); high key and fill light, most everything is illuminated in the frame, ex: singing in the rain. Low: creates shadows and high contrast; mystery and shadow ex: mildred pierce. Hard = brightly illuminated scene that creates shadows/sharp lines/and reveals imperfections. Soft = deflected and softens borders and features between light/shadows. Film stock fast stock: lowly darker places (higher iso, more grain, darker) slow stock: more depth, sharper (lower iso, used during bright scenes)