Mise En Scene 1

Question 1

1. What is Mise En Scene?
2. Give 3 examples of what this might include.
3. What is a prop?

Answer 1

1. Everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement.
2. Facial expressions, costumes, make-up, placing of characters/objects, lighting and colour, settings.
3. Any object in a setting that a character uses/interacts with for some purpose.

Question 2

1. A prop can ______ different things.
   - What theorist is relevant when thinking about denotation and connotation & signifier and signified?
2. What is a prop that is used repeatedly throughout the narrative giving it a symbolic meaning called?
3. What can a composition be used to create?
   - What are 3 different types of compositions?
   - A composition can also be used to draw our ________.

Answer 2

1. Signify.
   - Roland Barthes.
2. Motif.
3. Visual interest.
   - Symmetrical, negative, stressed composition.
   - Attention.

Question 3

1. On a shallow depth of field, the background is what?
   - What does this place the focus on?
2. What is the background element ‘in’ compared to the foreground element on a deep depth of field?
3. What do we refer to as the structure of a text?
   - Text is structures to make the audience take the what?
4. How the producers position the audience influences decisions around aspects of what?

Answer 3

1. Out of focus.
   - Foreground action.
2. A sharply in focus as foreground.
3. Audience positioning.
   - Preferred Reading.
4. Mise En Scene.