Color/lighting
True or False: Lighting is used in film mainly so the audience can see the actors.
FALSE - Lighting is used to create mood, highlight elements, and convey meaning.
These are small body movements used by actors to show emotion or meaning.
What are gestures?
This term describes the physical location of where a scene takes place.
What is Setting.
These are the clothing choices used to visually communicate a character’s identity, background, and role in the story
What are costumes?
Benjamin is always just floating around in the pool by himself. Which part of mise-en-scène is doing most of the work to show how isolated he is?
What is set design/location?
True or False: Different lighting techniques can dramatically affect the atmosphere of a scene.
True
This includes the facial movements actors use to communicate feelings without words.
What are facial expressions?
These items are used by actors to help tell a story.
What are Props.
This is conveyed when costume design uses material quality, condition, and styling to indicate a character’s economic or class position.
What is social status?
Whenever Mrs. Robinson and Benjamin are together, the lighting is darker and more shadowy. Which part of mise-en-scène is creating that mood?
What is lighting?
Lighting can be used to create mood, highlight certain elements, and do what else?
What is: convey meaning
This term describes how an actor uses their entire body to communicate character and emotion.
What is body language?
This term describes when a shot is filmed where the story actually takes place.
What is On-location.
This is established when makeup and wardrobe reflect historically or culturally specific styles in a particular era.
What is time period?
True or False: The lighting in Benjamin’s scenes is mainly high-contrast and dramatic to make his life feel intense and action-packed.
What is False
Color includes hues, saturation, and what else?
What is: contrasts
This is how actors physically bring a character to life through controlled movement and expression.
what is performers acting style
This film worker is responsible for finding and securing suitable locations for filming.
What is Location Scout/Manager.
The deliberate use of costume and makeup to externalize a character’s internal traits or psychological state reflects this broader storytelling function
What is defining/revealing character personality?
Benjamin barely moves in a lot of scenes and just looks kind of blank or passive. Which part of mise-en-scène is showing that?
What is actor’s performance?
This color technique involves “muting” the color palette and can be used to affect mood and add symbolic meaning
What is: desaturation
This element of mise-en-scène refers to the way actors express character through movement, gesture, and body language.
What is actor’s performances?
Name the 2 types of Mise-en-Scene traditions.
What are naturalistic and theatrical.
In mise-en-scène analysis, costumes and makeup are most effective when they simultaneously communicate personality, social hierarchy, and this overarching cinematic goal.
What is visual storytelling?
The movie uses a lot of dull, muted colors instead of anything bright. Which part of mise-en-scène is being used to show how bored and empty Benjamin feels?
What is color?