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Mis en scene

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Applies to everything the director decides to include within a shot and the way they are arranged on screen

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Aspect’s of mis en scene

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Lighting and color
Props and setting
Facial expressions and body language
Positioning of characters
Costumes hair and makeup

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Naturalistic mis en scene

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Realistic and relatable

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Expressive mis en scene

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Theatrical and unrealistic

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Simplistic mis en scene

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Simple and ordinary

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Cluttered mis en scene

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Mis en scene is busy and a lot to take in

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Denotations

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What you actually see

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Connotation

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The meanings of a sight or media product that are made by cultural associations

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Importance of Sound

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Can be used to create a mood, tension and engross an audience in the story

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Diagetic sounds

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Diegetic sounds have a source on the screen, could be dialogue

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Non diagetic sounds

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And sound deriving from the outside world, place over the film during production and dose not have a source on screen

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Dialogue

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A literary technique to allow two or more characters to be engaged in conversation

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Voice over

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Allows a filmmaker to efficiently provide information to the audience in a way that is easy to understand.
Can be used to tell stories, narrate and provide a look into the mind of the character

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Film score and sound tracks

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Both musical elements. Could establish setting to create atmosphere, call attention to certain elements. Reinforces and possibly foreshadows narrative developments. Creates emotion

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Sound FX

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Sound effects are employed to create meaning from a certain object or visual element and use to stage the action

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Foley

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Most common use of sound effects is foley. It is the reproduction of every day sound effects, added in post production

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Ambience

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Lack of sound

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Sound bridge

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During editing process making sound and visuals coincide together. During post production audio mixing can take place making the sound play earlier or later than the image on screen. Used to link to adjacent scenes in a Film

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Parallel

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When both image and sound match each others moods

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Contrapuntal

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When music juxtaposes to the image on the screen

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Camera shots

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Amount of space seen in one shot or frame. Can demonstrate different aspects of the setting, characters and themes. Very important in shaping the meaning of the film

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Camera angles

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Marks the specific location at which the movie camera is placed to take the shots. Can give a different experience/point of view

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Establishing shot/ extreme long shot

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Usually a long shot art the beginning of a scene which establishes the setting.
Eg large landscapes, famous land marks.

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Close hop shot

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A shot with tightly frames a person or object. Little or no background is visible ,.
Eg to show expression or detail on characters face

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Extreme close up shot
Only part of a person or object is shown. (Characters eyes) Eg used to convey strong emotions, small details
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Mid shots
Usually show person or object and just a small part of the background Food for showing facial expressions and body language
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Medium close up
Shows face more clearly, not uncomfortable close
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Long shot
Used to show both subject and background bur from a further distance Used when the action is the most important aspect of the scene
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Point of view shot
From a position which imitates a characters point of view Camera sees what they would see
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High angle
Located higher up than the normal eye, looks down on subject Van make subject look weak or vulnerable
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Low angle
Located below normal eye level looking up at the object Make subject look powerful or influential
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Birds Eye view angle
Above the subject and looking down Used to show larger scale and can emphasise smalness or insignificance of an object
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Medium angle
Camera is positioned at eye level. Makes subject equal to audience. Subject appears friendly likeable and neutral
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Order of shots
Meaning of a clip can change depending on the order that the shots are put together. Putting two shots together can suggests a connection or emphasise contrast
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Continuity editing
Cutting shots to tell a story with narrative continuity. Helping the viewer make sense of action. Creates realism
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Eye line match
When a Character looks off screen and next shot show what they are looking at
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Match on action
Character begins to move in one shot and a continuation of the movement is in the next one.
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180 rule
Sam space is described in each shot
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Shot and reverse shot
Showing conversation
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Establishing shot
Established the space in which action is about to happen
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Montage
Giving information in a compressed form
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Non continuity editing
When continuity is broken and construction is more apparent. Often created through juxtaposition and metaphor shot inserts
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Continuity techniques
Establishing shot The 180 rule Shot/reverse shot Eye line match Match on action
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Non continuity techniques
Montage Non continuity editing
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Transitions effect and and examples
Can imply the passing of time, imply a change in location, emphasise a connection, perhaps what a character is thinking, remembering or dreaming about. Fade dissolve or cross fade
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Fade
The preceding shots fade into black from which the next shot emerges
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Dissolve or cross fade
The preceding shot merges into the following shot resulting in two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the more noticeable the superimposition becomes.
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Shot duration
Duration of a shot will effect narrative context
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Short duration
Speaking short shot duration conveys action and urgency
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Long duration
Long shot duration increase intensity and intimacy within the narrative. Allows the audience to focus one a facial expression and other aspects of mis en scene that would otherwise be missed.
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Special effects
Can be used to further manipulate mis en scene of a sequence
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Editing goal
Controls what information an audience gets and when. Id the audience know more than the characters it can provoke emotional. Reaction. The audience may also feel tension or anticipation- element of suspense builds up
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Parallel editing
Cross cutting or intercutting between different locations can convey the impression that two or more events are occurring simultaneously.
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Split screen
Where the frame is split into sections so that we can see different events occurring at the same time.

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