Mise-en-scene
What does it mean?
All visual information in a film or play
What is the Camera's Role?
- Subject Camera distance
- Camera angles
- Camera movement
What are some positive symptoms that John Nash shows in A Beautiful Mind?
Thought Disorder: Irrational Thoughts
Delusions: Grandeur; Persecution
Hallucinations: Charles, his niece, and Parcher
Emotional and social withdrawal
Blunted affect
What are some examples of editing?
Kuleshov experiment:
Montage: Continuity editing;invisible editing and non-continuity editing
What are some elements of mise-en-scene in The Notebook?
- Framed tightly
- Tone
- Rachel's Mom Versus Ryan
- Composition and Costumes
What does it conclude?
- Props
- Settings
- Actors: position in the shot, costumes, makeup, gestures, and facial expression
- Lighting
- Camera: movement, angles, and subject-camera distance
- Composition: arrangement of actors and objects w/in frame
What is Subject-Camera Distance and what are some examples?
The closer the camera lens the closer the subject appears.
- Extreme close-up
- Close-up
- Medium close-up
- Medium shot: waist up
- Three-quarter shot: from just below the knees
- Full shot: whole body
- Long shot: appears to be taken from a long distance
- Extreme long shot: object at a vast distance
How do we see these symptoms in a Beautiful Mind?
- A: 1st person POV shots: we see and believe what John sees
-B: 3rd person POV shots: we see John seeing the world and believing what he sees
-C: 1st person POV shots: we see John's hallucination. We and John know it is not real
-D: 3rd person POV shots: we see John seeing his hallucination. We and John know it is not real
What is the purpose of a montage?
- It's an attempt to create spatial and temporal continuity between shots, to hide the cuts
- "Classical Hollywood Style" doesn't draw attention to its own construction
- Non-continuity editing is sometimes intended to draw attention to its own artifice. Ex: Jump cuts
What are some elements of Mise-en-scene in A Beautiful Mind?
- Orange and Light tones; high key light, and in harmony with the house
- Blacked Costume; Curved Composition; As if caged
- Black Costume; Framed in Center; Slight Low-Angle Shot
- Monotone but unnerving
- Dulled Affect
Where is this term from?
Theatre
What are some different examples of camera angles?
- Classic straight-on shot, also known as eye-level shot
- Low-angle shot: subject shot from below
- High-angle shot: subject shot from above
- Birds-eye view shot: shot from overhead, looking straight down on the subject
What was Akiva Goldman's Objective and how does he accomplish this?
To show the audience the world the way the person who suffers from the disease sees it first.
- Goldman includes a lot of shots from Nash's POV
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What are some different examples of sound that is used in films?
Dialogue, any spoken words: conversations, monologues, words audible in crowd scenes, and voice-over narration.
Music: sound effects, diegetic, and non-diegetic
What are the different forms of lighting and what do they do?
High key lighting: intense, and bright
Low key lighting: subdued, and dim
- The more low key the more shadows
- Often used in Film Noir and Horror film
What are some examples of camera movements through a moving camera?
- Tracking shot/dolly: camera moves parallel to the ground
- Carne shot: camera mounted on device that moves up and down
- Steadicams: attached to camera operator's body for smooth movement
- Hand-held shots: jerky effect, often read as realism
What was Nash's Contribution to Game Theory according to Sylvia Nasar?
- Nash created a theory for games in which there was a possibility for mutual gain. His insight was that the game would be solved when every player independently chose his best response to the other players' best strategies.
"This is the story of John Forbes Nash Jr. It's a story of mystery of the human mind, in 3 acts: Genius, Madness, and reawakening."
What are different types of music that is used in films and what do they do?
- Sound effects: all other noises, diegetic, and non-diegetic
- Diegetic: sourced w/in the story world (we see character turn on music and we hear the music they're listening to)
- Non-diegetic: we hear music on soundtrack that characters can't hear
What is composition and what are some different examples?
Arrangement of objects and actors w/in frame. The arrangement of lines, volumes, masses, shapes, and colors in a shot.
Term from painting
Can include: furniture, decoration, landscape, costumes, lighting, and actor's bodies
What are some examples of camera movements through a stationary camera?
Pan shot: camera stationary, pivots from side to side
Tilt shot: camera stationary, tilts up and down
Impression of movement: zoom shot created with a zoom lens, ie: a varifocal lens. No actual movement takes place
What are the changes in attitudes towards and treatments for individuals living with mental health issues throught the 20-21st century?
- Experimental treatments
- Evolution of drug treatments
- Reform movement
- An increasing understanding of patients' subjective experiences. Patient's rights
- Recovery Movement