The document provides an overview of key technical aspects of mise-en-scene in film including setting, props, costumes, performance, lighting, camerawork, editing, and sound. It defines concepts such as high key and low key lighting, shot types and angles, continuity editing techniques, and diegetic and non-diegetic sound. Examples are provided for many of the techniques discussed.

1. G321/G322 Technical Aspects of Moving Image

4. Analyse the Mise en Scene of this image

5. Analyse the Mise en Scene of this image

8. three point lighting Click here for more on three point lighting

9. High key lighting The Virgin Suicides (Coppola, 1999)

10. Low key lighting Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

11. Red hue Mean Streets (Scorsese, 1973)

14. High angle Fargo (Coen Bros, 1996)

15. Low angle Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

16. Dutch angle Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai, 1995)

20. extreme long shot

21. long shot

22. medium shot

23. close up

24. extreme close up

26. Rule of thirds Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)

28. Selective focus Elephant (Van Sant, 2002)

29. Deep focus Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

32. Fade – the preceding shot fades into black from which the following shot emerges.

33. Fade – the preceding shot fades into black from which the following shot emerges.

34. Fade – the preceding shot fades into black from which the following shot emerges.

35. Dissolve or cross fade – the preceding shot merges into the following shot, resulting in the two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the more noticeable the superimposition becomes.

36. Dissolve or cross fade – the preceding shot merges into the following shot, resulting in the two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the more noticeable the superimposition becomes.

37. Dissolve or cross fade – the preceding shot merges into the following shot, resulting in the two shots being superimposed. The longer the dissolve the more noticeable the superimposition becomes.

41. In this example, the two characters appear to have swapped places when the 180 degree line is crossed. 180 deg ree line Click here to see this ‘rule’ explained further.