Key aspects of mise en scène
- Set design
- An element of "putting in the scene" is set design—the setting of a scene and the props there in. Set design can be used to amplify character emotion or the dominant mood of a film, or to establish aspects of the character.
- Lighting
- The intensity, direction, and quality of lighting have a profound effect on the way an image is perceived. Light can emphasise texture, shape, distance, mood, time of day or night, season, glamour; it affects the way colors are rendered, both in terms of hue and depth, and can focus attention on particular elements of the composition.
- Space
- The representation of space affects the reading of a film. Depth, proximity, size and proportions of the places and objects in a film can be manipulated through camera placement and lenses, lighting, set design, effectively determining mood or relationships between elements in the story world.
- Costume
- Costume simply refers to the clothes that characters wear. Using certain colors or designs, costumes in narrative cinema are used to signify characters or to make clear distinctions between characters.
- Acting
- There is enormous historical and cultural variation in performance styles in the cinema. Early melodramatic styles, clearly indebted to the 19th century theater, gave way in Western cinema to a relatively naturalistic style.
If we look carefully at the settings/locations in this extract it goes some way in telling us what the film will be like. The costumes and accents allow us to depict where they are from and what type of background they stem from. This is a simple opening that tells us so much.
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