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Fam 1000s - Mise-en-scène lecture Notes
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Mise-en-scèneFour components of film language:
Mise-en-scène
Cinematography
Sound
Editing
Mise-en-scène:
- Literally “putting into the scene”, signifies the director’s control over what happens in the
film frame.
Four main components:
o Setting (including props)
o Costume (including make-up)
o Lighting
o Behaviour of figures (movement of actors)
Can be fantastical or realistic. It can enhance the realism of the narrative, or enhance
the film’s unreal quality.
Setting:
Broad context of space.
A container for human events, but can also dynamically enter the narrative action.
Tells us where and when the film is happening, the historical period.
Alludes to nationality, ethnicity.
Also identifies genre.
Can be planned or accidental, but is always present.
Can be constructed on a set or exist on location in the form of a building, a street, a
natural feature.
This does not mean that the film is necessarily more realistic.
Many realistic-looking settings in films are, in fact, constructions, while many natural
settings are used to amplify specific aspects of setting or character.
Fictional narratives can even be set in Hollywood, the film industry, or the cinema,
pointing self-consciously to their own construction (Inglorious Basterds).
Can indicate an imaginary realm, or a move between two worlds (Star Wars).
When an object in the setting has a function within the ongoing action, we call it a
prop.
Props:
o Apparently insignificant, but often key components to a scene (the ring in The
Lord of the Rings).
Colour:
Colour can produce powerful symbolic meanings in film.
Often where props, setting, and costume work together.
Pink in Legally Blonde.
Red in American Beauty.
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