07 Mise en Scene

Question 1

Name the four areas of Mise en Scene.

Answer 1

Setting
Lighting
Costume
Staging

Question 2

Define SLCS.

Answer 2

Setting
Lighting
Costume
Staging

Question 3

What is setting?

Answer 3

Settings and locations are not just backgrounds. The setting is where the action happens, where the story unfolds from.
Setting creates both a sense of place and a mood and it may also reflect a character’s emotional state of mind.
It can be entirely fabricated within a studio – either as an authentic re-construction of reality or as an imagined fiction – but it can also be found and filmed on-location.

Question 4

Give all the different types of lighting.

Answer 4

Natural
3-point lighting (to highlight facial features)
High-key lighting
Low-key lighting

Question 5

What can be included in costume?

Answer 5

Wardrobe choices, hair style and make-up.

Question 6

Why is costume used?

Answer 6

It is used to convey a character’s personality or status, and to signify differences between characters.
Important for signifying the era in which the narrative is set, if a period piece.
In biographical narratives, costume is an important aspect of making an actor resemble a historical character.

Question 7

What are the two main areas of Staging?

Answer 7

Acting

Proxemics

Question 8

What is Acting?

Answer 8

An actor’s performance consists of visual elements and sound. Helps to make the audience ‘believe’ the characters and the narrative as a whole.

Question 9

What are Proxemics?

Answer 9

Proxemics (spacial relations), relationship between the subjects (actors), objects (props) and setting and how they create meaning.
The way in which the actors are positioned can connote dominance (or hierarchy), the importance of family position and many other relationship/status possibilities.