THE SHOT: MISE- EN- SCENE PREPARED BY; DEL MUNDO JUNER P.
MISE-EN-SCENE • Of all film Mise-en-scene is the one that viewers notice most, after seeing a film, we may not recall the cutting or the camera movement's, the dissolves or the off-screen sound. • the shot seems a simple one, but if your starting to think like a filmmaker, you'll notice how the image to accentuate the action and engage our attention.
THE POWER OF MISE-EN-SCENE • Film makers can use mise-en-scene to achieve realism, giving setting and authentic look or letting actors performs as naturally as possible. Throughout film history, however, audiences have also been attracted to fantasy, and mise en scene has often been used for this purpose. This attraction is evident in the work of cinemas first master f the technique, George Melies used highly original mise en scene to create an imaginary world of film.
• “Everything in the frame can carry meaning.”
5 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF SUCCESSFUL MISE EN SCÈNE IN FILM
I. SETTING
Since the earliest days of cinema, critics and audience have understood that setting play a more active role in cinema than it usually does in the theatre The setting of a scene – that is, the literal physical space in which it unfolds – has a huge impact on the visuals.
II. DECOR • the decor, also production design, within a setting is especially revealing. It, too, is often analyzed as symbolic of something about the story or character. • An important element of “putting in the scene” is décor, the objects contained in and the setting of a scene. Décor can be used to amplify character emotion or the dominant mood of a film.
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III. LIGHTING • Of course, lighting – an aspect of cinematography – is a key contributor to a film’s look and feel, too! • Why Is Lighting So Important? Lighting is important in video and film production because cameras do not respond to lights in the same way that the human eye does. The finite detail and lighting contrasts a human eye can see are incredibly developed, and cameras cannot process or pick up on this as well. Additional lighting is necessary to make the definition of a video or film’s definition of a comparable quality to what the human eye sees naturally. The correct lighting can determine the mood of the scene and can evoke a more dramatic or subtle palette for the film. If you are perhaps new to video and film production, the first learning curve is understanding why lighting within production is so key. Regardless of content, any video created, filmed, shared and watched will have had an element of thought and design behind the lighting. The more advanced the video and film production, the more advanced the lighting behind it. •
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IV. DEPTH OF SPACE • In many respects, a film shot resembles a paining. It preents a flat array of colors and shpes, before we even start to understand the image as a three dimensional space, mise-en-scene offers many cues for guiding our attention and emphasizing elements in the frame. • When we talk about “depth of space”, we’re talking about the depth of the image onscreen. Depth is determined by the distances between objects, people, and scenery, influenced by their placement along with camera location and lens choice.
V. COSTUMES AND MAKEUP • If you were planning a film, you'd probably give as much attention to what your actors wear as you pay to their surroundings, like setting, costume can have a great variety of specific functions in the films overall form. • Although it can be easy to overlook costumes and makeup when you’re developing your screenplay, they’re a key element of mise en scène. “What the character is wearing and how it is arranged can say a lot about them, or not much at all. Which is equally important,”
AMPHITRITE AND PERSEPHONE
SOUND • Sound is always present, even silence is the presence of the absence of sound. So it comes to no surprise that film has accepted sound has a constantly present companion as well. Most people will focus on the beauty of cinematography, editing or directing. But sound, noise and music in a film influence our perception of a film just as much as images do. • Different Sound can tell a different story – Dwein Baltazar
CINEMATOGRAPHY
• Cinematography is an essential part of filmmaking. It’s about creative visuals that reinforce a narrative and give the audience an emotional experience. It’s less about the equipment you use and more about how you use it, but this fact is often overlooked by contemporary filmmakers. • In controlling, mise en scene, he filmmaker stages an event to be filmed. But what happens in the front of the camera isn't the whole story. That event has to be captured, on the strip of film or in a digital format. The recording process opens up a new area of choice and control.
REFERENCES;
• https://www.lightsfilmschool.com/blog/mise-enscene-in-film-afk • http://digicult.it/digimag/importance-lightingvideo-film-production/