Film Studies Flashcards
Mis en scene - proximity
Closeness or distance
Proxemic range
Insight on characters relationships
Extreme long shot
Establishes setting
Subject very small
Long shot
Head to toe
Still some distance
Medium long shot
Character from head to knees
Focus on surrounding and setting
Nothing to do with character personality
Medium shot
Wait to head
Clear expressions and movement of character
Medium close up
Head to shoulders or chest
Very visible facial expressions
Identifies characters emotions and reactions
Close-up
Character’s head, sometimes shoulders
What the character is feeling or saying at the time
Can be an object
Great attention paid to
Extreme close up
Dramatic purposes and effects
Focus on an aspect of a character
Creates suspense, drama, tension
Point of view shot
Shares the character’s POV
helps the audience to identify or empathise with the character
Over the shoulder POV
same as POV
Eye level angle
Brings the viewer on the same level as characters
Normal, part of the scene
High angle
Reduces the subject to insignificance
Inferior, vulnerable, weak
Birds eye view
Subject is tiny
Map like effect
Low angle
Powerful, superior, menacing
Subject appears larger than life
Worms eye
Exaggerates low angle effects
Dutch angle
Tiltes
Scene appears unbalanced
Screen direction - definition
Direction of our eyes moving in a frame
Left to right = comfortable bc reading
Opposite = uncomfortable
Top to bottom = comfortable bc gravity
Opposite = uncomfortable
Horizontal lines
Waves crashing on beach for example
Tranquility, peace
Vertical lines
Top to bottom reminds us of enormous things makes viewer seem tiny or vulnerable
Relations of power or authority, success or failure
