is everything that appears before the camera.
- Setting
- Costume and make up
- Figure, expression, and movement by actors
- Lighting
- Positioning within the frame
The Style Scale:
Formalism, Expressionism form over content - how things are shown as most important, beyond a usual representation of reality. Expressionist films are highly stylized with oblique camera angles, distorted shapes, bizarre settings, high contrast lighting, surreal, subjective
Realism - Content over form - looks like real life, wants us to suspend our disbelief, "the syle of no style"
Setting:
- Where the action takes place
- When
- The mood
- The characters
- The genre
Mise en scene involves:
- Dominance - where audience's eye is attracted
- Lighting key - high or low key, high contrast
- Type of shot and distance
- High, low, oblique, neutral angles
- Colour values, dominance and symbolism
- Lens/filter/stock
- Subsidiary contrasts - main eye stops after the dominant
- Density of visual info and textures
- Composition - segmentation, organisation
- Form - open, closed, window view, proscenium arch
- Framing - tight, loose, characters having room to move
- Depth - how many planes of depth are utilised, interrelation
- Character placement - part of the frame they occupy
- Stagining position
- Character proxemics
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