DI - Mise-en-scene: Introduction (Assessment) Flashcards
Key elements of mise-en-scene include setting, lighting, costume, make-up and the positioning of characters and objects within a _____.
Frame
____ describes the Dietrichson house as ‘one of those California Spanish houses everyone was nuts about ten or fifteen years ago. This one must have cost somebody about 30,000 bucks, that is if he ever finished paying for it…’
Neff
Neff first arrives on a sunny May afternoon, with children playing on the road, overlooking the city below. The light exterior swiftly moves to a rather dark, stuffy interior. Neff comments, ‘the living room was still stuffy from last nights cigars. The windows were closed and the sunshine coming in through Venetian blinds showed up the dust in the air’. The lingering cigar smoke makes the audience subliminally aware of Dietrichson, an effect intensified by framed photographs of himself and ____ on the piano.
Lola
With mise-en-scene, we must consider what is absent, along with what is present, and it is noteworthy that no photograph of Phyllis is found in the Dietrichson’s room, suggesting __________ from the family unit.
Alienation
In Neff’s apartment the furniture is plain and functional and there are no markers of family or friendship. When he goes to get Phyllis a drink only bourbon is available and there are no signs of ____ in the kitchen, as befits a bachelor who squeezes ‘a grapefruit once in a while. Get the rest down at the corner drugstore’.
Food
In Neff’s apartment the room captures both Neff’s lack of attachment and perhaps a sad _________ which his flirtatious - which take a serious diversion when he meets Phyllis.
Isolation
The door to Neff’s apartment merits a special mention as usually and perhaps unnaturally it opens outwards onto the hallway. This provides some powerful visual opportunities. When Phyllis first visits, Schrader’s trapezoids of light are evidence as she appears framed in angular light, contrasting with that ________ within.
Darkness
