Mise En Scene 2

Question 1

1. What can lighting and colour be used to highlight?
   - Shading sections of the face and body can make the characters look __________.
2. What can lighting/colour reflect? (2)

Answer 1

1. Important characters/objects.
   - Mysterious.
2. Character’s mental state or hidden emotions.

Question 2

1. What type of lighting picks out the subject from the background?
2. What does fill light only cast?
   - Which type of lighting highlights the object?
3. Lowkey lighting is when the light is on a _______ scale, with a good deal of _______.
4. Which kind of lighting has the scene lit evenly and brightly?
   - This means there are no what in the frame?
   - This allows the audience to see _______.

Answer 2

1. Back Light.
2. Faint shadows.
   - Key Light.
3. Darker scale, shadow.
4. High-key Lighting.
   - Dark spots.
   - Clearly.

Question 3

1. What does colour create?
2. What are some colours usually connected to?
   - Give an example.
3. This works on the audience’s ___________.

Answer 3

1. Mood.
2. Common ideas.
   - Red = Valentine’s Day.
3. Subconscious.

Question 4

1. What can placing indicate?
2. What is signified about a character if he/she is placed at the front of the shot?
   - What can a moving object/body in front of a stationary background draw?
3. What is it called when characters are placed on the edge of a frame?
   - What is it called when characters are given space to move around the frame?

Answer 4

1. Relationships.
2. Important.
   - Attention.
3. Tight framing.
   - Loose Framing.