The document discusses mise en scène in film, which includes elements like setting, lighting, costumes, and spatial arrangement to create mood and convey character emotions. It explains various lighting techniques (high-key, low-key, and three-point lighting), the significance of costumes, and different spatial compositions (deep space, shallow space, off-screen space). Additionally, it touches on performance styles, blocking, and special effects techniques such as matte shots and rear projection.

1. Mise en scene
Dr. Janardhan Juvvigunta

2.  Mise en scène encompasses the most recognizable
elements of a film
The setting
The actors
 It includes costumes and make-up, props
 The term is borrowed from a French theatrical
expression,
 Meaning roughly “put into the scene”
 Mise-en-scène describes in the frame and the way it is
shown and arranged
 We have organized according to major areas:
 Setting
 Lighting
 Costume
 Depth of Space
 Visual Effects

3. SETTING
 It creates both a sense of place and a mood
 It may also reflect a character’s emotional state of
mind.
 It can be entirely fabricated within a studio –
 Either as an authentic re-construction of reality or as a
unusual fiction

4. LIGHTING
Three-Point Lighting
 This arrangement of Key, fill, and backlight
Provides even illumination of the scene
 It is the most commonly used lighting scheme in
typical narrative cinema.
 The light comes from three different directions to
provide the subject with a sense of depth in the frame,
 But not dramatic enough to anything deeper than
light shadows behind the subject.

5. High-Key Lighting
 High-key lighting involves the fill lighting to be
increased to near the same level as the key lighting.
 The scene appears very bright and soft, with very few
shadows in the frame.
 This style is used most commonly in musicals and
comedies, especially of the classic Hollywood age.

6. Low-Key Lighting
 Low-key lighting is the technical opposite of the high-
key arrangement,
 The fill light is at a very low level, causing the frame
to be cast with large shadows.
 This lighting style is most effective in film noir
productions and gangster films,
 As a very dark and mysterious atmosphere is created
from this obscuring light.

7. COSTUME:
 The most easily noticeable aspect of mise-en-scene is
costume
 Costume can include both makeup or wardrobe
choices
 It used to convey a character’s personality or status,
and to signify these differences between characters.
 Costume is an important part of signifying the era in
which the film is set and advertising that era’s
fashions.

9. SPACE
 A movie uses deep space when there are important
components in the frame located both close to and far
from the camera.
 It is used to emphasize the distance between objects
and/or characters, as well as any obstacles that exist
between them.
 Deep space is used in this frame to stress how far
away Nemo is from his father and the barriers
separating them.

10. Shallow space
 The opposite of deep space is shallow space
 In shallow space, the image appears flat or two
dimensional
 Because there is little or no depth

11. Off-screen Space
 Off-screen space is space in the diegesis that is not
physically present in the frame
 The viewer becomes aware of something outside of
the frame through either a character’s response to a
person, thing, or event off-screen, or off-screen sound
 In using off-screen space, directors employ a more
creative method of conveying information to the
viewer
Ex: CASINO ROYALE | Opening scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4fTKmbtu8E

12. Frontality:
 It is when the characters are directly facing the camera
 Providing viewers with the feeling that they are looking
right at them
 This allows him to inform the viewers of his thoughts by
breaking the typical boundary between the audience and the
characters onscreen

13. STAGING AND ACTING
 An actor or actress’s performance can make or break
 It is the actor’s duty to bring his or her character to
life within the framework of the story
 Acting depends upon gesture and movement,
expression and voice

14. Performance Style
 Two of the most common styles of performance in modern
cinema are method and non-method acting (also known as
naturalistic vs. stylized).
 The method actor’s job is to become one with the character’s
mannerisms, dress, upbringing, etc.
 Conversely, non-method or stylized acting relies on a more
conspicuous approach to get the director’s point across.
 They will overact and hyperbolize certain characteristics in
an effort to dramatize, or alternatively, to undercut for a
comic effect.

15. Blocking
 The meaningful arrangement of the actors on the set is called
blocking.
 The way in which the actors are positioned can show the
dominance of one character over another
 The importance of family or religion, and a myriad of other
relationship possibilities.

16. SPECIAL EFFECTS
MATTE SHOT
• A matte shot is one in which two images are merged
into one.
• This is a common process done to manipulate the
scenery due to cost or impossibility.

17. REAR PROJECTION:
 Rear projection is a special effects technique used to give the
illusion of filming a scene on location.
 The technique combines pre-filmed background footage
with present foreground action.
 Rear projection was most popularized in driving sequences,
when actors would sit inside a prop vehicle rigged up to a
projector

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