Mise-En-Scene

Lo: To explore the use of mise - en- scenes in films.

It is a French term meaning what is being put into a screen or frame.

Visual information infront of the camera.

Mes communicates essential information to the audience,each aspect of mise-en-scene

Has hidden meanings within a film,and sends signals to the audience about how we are supposed to feel or about a character.

Made up of 5 bases:

Setting and props,

Costume, hair and makeup,

Facial expressions and body language,

Lighting and color,

Positioning of characters or objects within the frame.

1.setting and props

Setting and location are an important part in any film and are not just backgrounds.

Sets are either built from scratch or a great deal of time is spent to find a setting which already exists.

Settings can manipulate an audience by building certain expectations and then taking a different turn.

2.costume, hair and makeup

costume hair and makeup act as an instant indicator to us of a characters personality status and job.

It tells us immediately whether the film is set in the present or the past.

3.facial and body expressions,

Facial expressions provide a clear indicator of how someone is feeling.

If someone is smiling broadly we instantly assume they are happy but we may get a new impression if it's assisted with dark music.

Body expressions may show how that character feels toward the other characters like the state of their relationship.

4.lighting and colour,

To highlight important characters or objects.

To make the characters look a particular way/show their emotions and mental state.

5.Positioning of people/objects

Positioning within a frame can draw our attention to a important character/object.

A film maker can use positioning to indicate relationships between people.

PLENARY

What are the 5 things included in MES?

Setting/props

Costume,makeup and hair

Facial and body expressions

Lighting/color

Positioning of things in the frame

Sound in film

Starter:                                                                                          May 12th 2020

Movie theme songs!

9/26 NOT awful....

Shrek √

Harry Potter√

Frozen √

Moana √

Mission Impossible √

Pirates of the Caribbean √

Suicide Squad √

Twilight √

High School Musical √

Music 

What sort of music would you expect from a horror movie?

Some dark sinister music.

What sort of music would you expect from a Action Movie?

Upbeat repetitive.

What sort of music would you expect from a thriller?

An interesting one.

What sort of music would you expect from a comedy?

Funny also repetitive not dark in any shape or form, happy.

What sort of music would you expect from a science fiction film?

A serious piece of music, to go with some sort of experiment.

SOUNDTRACK

Lo: To explore the use of sound in films.

Which includes:

Diegetic

Non diegetic

Choose a short clip from youtube : 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxPjDL8HFM

Diegetic - In this clip you would probably hear the person who plays the beast soothing the horse before it makes a loud neigh, also their would be the backing track where they were.

Non-Digetic - you can hear them talking to one another, and at 0:17 you can hear belle and her footsteps on the snow, and at 0:31 you can hear the knives clattering on the plate.

FOLEY:

Watch the following Animation √

PLENARY

All sound in a film is called Diegetic.

Types of sound in films, human voices and music.

Music is Diegetic

Foley is the recorded sound affects to add in after the movie.

Setting&colour

L/o:
To explore the use of setting & colour of films.                 Monday May 4th 2020

Starter:
6 correct
4 wrong

Setting

Why might the director choose the following settings?

1 An isolated house in a rural setting for a horror film?

They might do that because they want to build the tension, it is of course expected in a horror movie to have some sort of dark eerie setting, but because it is a horror, the setting works very well and every time when it's the same setting which comes across as quite scary, it doesn't get old.

2 A big city for an action film?

Because it's an action movie there is going to be A lot of stuff going on and because of this, the only solution really is to make a large setting so there is enough locations that they can film at and have different things going on.

3 A small seaside town for a romantic comedy

Because it's small, it usually is a very lovely sight to see in a rom-com is when two people are in the seaside, maybe they use a small town so everyone knows one another and also their isn't too many things to look at so the couple can be the main focus.

4 A range of different countries for an action adventure film?

It's an adventure , they are going to be traveling places exploring things but also there will be some sort of mission to get thrown into it, that's where the action comes from, or they might need to travel to retrieve something, or set things right.

5  A large modern science laboratory for a science-fiction film

A reason they do this is because something usually goes wrong in a science experiment which cause distribution to the story line, so in the modern science laboratory they have to find a solution and also because it is fiction it's not real so a science experiment could just be effects.

Colour

Why might a director choose the following colours?

1. Blue and red for superhero colours?

Because they are two colours which go together and are quite bold, they are also the traditional colours for a superhero.

2. A black suit for a villain?

Because black is associated with something evil, depressing, scary and even sometimes death.

3. Bright colours for a comedy film?

Because it's supposed to be funny or course you would use bright colours in a film like this, you would not want to use dark colours because people might make the wrong impression and think their is a dark part to this comedic movie.

The Greatest Showman

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-CVJuNQo6w

Tightrope song scene

Shot 1:
0:18- Birds Eye View of the house and the carriage leaving.

Shot 2:
0:26- Medium Shot of The mother's body from the waist up.

Shot 3:
1:51- Over shoulder shot, Over Zac Effron's shoulder showing the crowd.

Long shot- 2:38- A shot showing the window and The mother dancing with a figment of her imagination.The

Close-up -1:07- A full show of Jenny's Face.

The story is shown through charity, the mother's point of view mostly, but at some points it also shows the point of views from Phillip and PT Barnum.

We see characters different point at views at- 0:35-1:04-2:01-2:08-2:29-2:31 and 3:07 for all of Mr Barnum's point of views.

The way the first shots set the scene in this scene, is it keeps on switching between Pov shots.

The shots normally change between 5-10-15 seconds

The set at the start is of the family's house
It's set in that particular place because he's leaving their home.
The string changes between all their lives and where they are.
Could the same story be set in a different place?
I don't think so because, he's leaving home, he's leaving his family it just really works from the house.
The colours are very important in the film because it helps set all the scenes, in some scenes people are wearing very bright and expensive clothes.

Plenary

The star wars shot is used effectively because it's shows the tension built up between the two characters and it shows the whole room so you can really see what's going on.