Mise-En-Scene/Sound
The four components of mise-en-scene
What is setting, costumes/makeup, lighting, and staging?
These are four relations of continuity editing.
What are graphic, spatial, temporal, and rhythmic relations?
These are the three elements of cinematography.
NOPE (Jordan Peele, 2022, USA, 130m)
What film did we view when learning about genre? (Class discussion!)
This is the differences between a categorical and rhetorical documentary.
What is a documentary with information presented into categorized sections and a documentary that establishes an argument?
Three-point lighting, high-key lighting, and low-key lighting, are all distinct because of this.
Why does three-point lighting use a key light, fill light, and back light? Why does high-key lighting create a brighter image with fewer shadows, while low-key lighting creates a more dramatic image with stronger shadows and darker tones?
This is the Kuleshov Effect.
What is a filmmaking principle demonstrating that a viewer's interpretation of a shot is altered by its relationship to surrounding shots, rather than from the shot itself?
These are some examples/definitions of camera movements.
What are dolly shots, crane shots, pans, tilts, steady cams, zoom(sort of), mobile, reframing, etc.
RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, India, 2022, 187m)
What film did we view when learning about new frontiers in cinema? (Class discussion!)
Genre can be described in these three films, and their iconography as such.
What is a category of movie that groups films by shared subject matter, narrative patterns, stylistic elements, and emotional responses. (ex: Nope as a western film: horses, farm, cowboy outfits, etc.)
This is the difference between diegetic and non-diegetic sound.
What is sound that comes from inside the world of the film (diegetic) and sound that come from outside the world of the film (non-diegetic)?
Continuity editing can be accomplished through these methods (with explanations) (Name at least 3).
What is elliptical editing, match on action, crosscutting/parallel editing, the 180-degree rule, shot/reverse shot, cheat cut, smash cut, jump cut, eye line match, or an establishing/re-establishing shot?
This is the difference between a reframing shot and a re-establishing shot.
What is a slight camera movement within a single, continuous shot (reframing/cinematography) and what is a wide shot used to remind the audience of the overall location and spatial relationships of the scene (re-establishing shot/editing).
Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990, USA, 78m)
What film did we view when learning about documentary? (Class discussion!)
How does sound help you pay attention to movement, create or manipulate realism, and enhance character relations?
These examples (with explanations) provide alternatives to continuity editing.
What are the long take and Andre Bazan's Myth of Total Cinema?
These are some examples/definitions of framing.
What is the distance of shot (extreme close up, medium shot, long shot, etc.), angle (over-the-shoulder, canted/dutch angle, high/low), masking, and aspect ratio?
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989, USA, 120m)
What film did we view when learning about ideology and critique? (Class discussion!)
What goes against the typical cause & effect linkage in filmmaking? What concentrates on the human condition/character? What eliminates deadlines as temporal motivation of plot? (Many many other examples of course).
This is the difference between "Deep Space Composition" and "Deep Focus"
Deep space composition is a part of mise-en-scene, placing subjects at different distances from the camera, creating three dimensional depth. Deep focus is a part of cinematography, where everything is in focus: the foreground, the middle ground, and the background.
Sergei Eisenstein's soviet style montage is different than a regular montage because of this definition.
How is Sergei Eisenstein's soviet montage concerning conflict between and within shots different than a regular montage as a sequence of events to progress time?
This is what depth of field determines in cinematography.
What are the different layers of focus in a shot?
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943), Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1964), and Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012, France, 116min)
What films did we view when learning about experimental/avant-garde and art cinema? (Class discussion!)
These are Fred Camper's 6 characteristic's of avant-garde film.
What are these characteristics?
1. Created by one person or a small group
2. Filmmaker functions as multiple production roles
3. Does not try to offer a linear story narrative
4. Makes conscious use of materials of cinema
5. Oppositional relationship to stylistic characteristics of mass media and value systems
6. Doesn't offer a clear, univalent message