Film Language: Mise en scene

Film Language:MISE EN SCENE

OCTOBER 16th 2015

Mise-en-Scene refers to everything that appears before camera and its arrangement-composition, sets, props, actors, costumes, and lighting.

DenotationIs the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meaning associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for ay individual speaker because of personal experience.

ConnotationIs an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning. The abstract meaning or intension of a term, which forms a principle determining which objects or concepts it applies to.The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning.

SETTING

Interior Exterior

Location and environment where action takes place, colour used to light the action,

exterior, interior, time of day.

LIGHTING

High key: features bright, even illumination and few conspicuous shadows. This lighting key is often used un musicals and comedies.Low key: features diffused shadows and atmospheric pools of light. This lighting key is often used in mysteries and thrillers. High contrast: features harsh shafts of lights and dramatic streaks of blackness. This type of lighting is often used in tragedies and melodramas.

COSTUME & MAKE-UP, HAIR

hCostume: is an important part of signifying the era in which the film is set and advertising that era’s fashions. It can include both make up or wardrobe choice used convey a character’s personality or status, and to signify the differences between characters.Make-up:Hair:

POSITIONING & SPACE

Positioning

ACTING, EXPRESSION & BODY LANGUAGE

SPECIAL EFFECTS

UNFAITHFUL – MISE EN SCENE