MISE EN SCENE

05/04/16 Moving Image - Mise En Scene

Advanced Film / Screen industry - Analytical breakdown into compartments.  The arrangement of everything within a film.

Anything within the frame to tell a story.

Can be listed but not limited to:

Lighting
Setting
Props
Hair
Makeup

Looking into movies for examples:

The Dressmaker

Setting-Desert land wooden houses

Costume-Distinctive outfits

Suggests-Time period, 40's/50's, personality

Makeup-Older and weathered, does not take pride in appearance,

Props-Indicator of time period, status

Lighting-Scene inside/negative and dark in juxtaposition to positive influence comes and brightens the scene.

Body Language - Invoke an emotion, analysing it early on.  Asking the question "Why has the director chosen to do that?

Making a film-99% is planned to story tell e.g raggedy hair-personality type.

STUDY THE SHOT!!! Visually tell a story




American Beauty as movie example

Start- Disillusioned, funny feeling in the scene.

Scene with computer and office supplies showing reflection of him and figures designed like a grid of jail bars.  Like he's stuck or in prison (planned in an unconscious level)

Emotionally told e.g the scene where family are surrounding their family dining table having dinner the colour blue representing melancholy a sad vibe.  A suppressed feeling (good example of making viewer feel included in the scene and to emotionally respond.

Wide shot - Scene where he is in the bosses office
The scene occupies most of the space he is in - he is exposed, weakness from angle of camera shot, the decor is dull and grey.  Painting is too small for the wall, sucks the life out of of its employees.

Dark/visual manifestations

Mid shot occupies emphasises position of power, visual pattern, job is a prison
straight angles - visual dominance, hopelessness and vulnerability.

Equal, out of focus, composition planned not chucked together

Writers tend to be symbolic and directors are analysing everything.

We all register it or read it naturally, analyse at a "microscopic level" enjoy take tools and use in our own work.

Feeling-pre conceived ideas, elements come together.

WES ANDERSON

Movies

The Life Aquatic
The Royal Tennabaums
Fantastic Fox
Moonrise Kingdom
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Style

Cartoonish (style)
Saturated Colours
Types of movement-Adds to his comic quirkiness
Symmetry - Likes using three people walking in a line when that does not happen in real life.
Tracking shot - Long takes plays the scene the whole way through, excitement, use of neutral browns (does not want it too flat).

Everything is planned for a reason!  In the bedroom scene the wallpaper is yellow for a reason, planned joy (blue and yellow complementary colours).




Tracking Shot - Long takes, love actors that play the scene right through, brings excitement and a sort of business to the film.  Stylistic device, he tends to use saturated colours,  comical in some of his approaches to film - eye heads to the brightest spot in the frame.

Red circle - stimulating, hard wired into us

COLOUR

Colour of props - Landscape,  1/2/3 vibe style, symmetrical,  flat lighting don't see a whole lot of shadow (HIGH KEY LIGHTING).  Low Key > Create Depth - Shadow, being in a deep room, all illuminated.



Colour Symbolism - Maps emotionally specifically set design, camera angles, actors expression.

Adobe Colour CC

Movies in colour - Film Makers, breaks down the colour schemes, broke down his colour spectrum's.  Dress for the characters > points of contrast.

De saturated > colour made up of saturation, hue and different saturation levels.

Tend to watch films in a different way once taught MISE EN SCENE.

DOMINANT - What is dominant? Size, position, whats in focus?? Evidence of camera skills, thought about lighting - 180, composition, proper framing.  Closer you get the better it looks.

Resolution > appears higher