Monday, 14 November 2011

Camera: Medium shot

A medium shot is often used when two characters are having a conversation or are opposing each other




The background is out of focus because its not important the subject are the two men arguing

Camera: Long shot

A long shot is used to  fit more than one object in the frame and it also gives you a good sense of the mise-en-scene as well as the characters position in it.
In this one an opposition is created between the young people and the "suits"

Camera:Extreme long shot


An extreme long shot often establishes the opening of a scene to identify the location in which it is shot.




In this  establishing  shot of Fargo  you can see the emptiness and the coldness of the location. This indicates loneliness and solitary.

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Mise-En-Scene Key Elements: High Key lighting

High Key Lighting is used to lighten the mood it is often used in comedy and makes the audience feel safe by emphasizing comedy and adds comforting feeling.






In this screenshot high key lighting is used to compliment the comic expression and the bright colors which all serve to tell the audience that this is a comedy.

Mise-En-Scene Elements: Low key Lighting

Low Key Lighting is used to add a dramatic and sinister effect. Low key lighting is often used in sci-fy and horror movies





In this screenshot low key lighting is used to indicate the sinister nature of the murder that just occured. This also adds a depressing mood and might affect the audiences mood

Mise-En Scene Elements: Props

Props are useful to identify genre and tells the audience what might happen in a movie for example if a man grabs a gun you can immediatly tell that he is in a situation of danger or he is the one causing the danger.              Danger+suspence+gun=action/thriller      It also helps describinng a character
                                                                                                 



                 
In this scene the main Prop is a baseball bat and the man is not playing baseball he is also holding it as if he was about to hit someone with it. This tells us that this man is bad tempered but at the same time he is romantic because he is holding flowers

Mise-En-Scene Elements: Off Set

The last screenshot I showed you was on-set Now let's take a look at off set locations.




 As you can see this is filmed off set they just added the debris on the floor,smoke and blown off windows. They shot offset to add realism to the movie and also if they need a big location. Also Big off set locations are pretty useful in war movies or disaster movies you can tell this is a war movie because of the tanks and all the debris.