The Shot: Mise-en-Scene Flashcards
What are the four general areas of Mise-en-Scene
- Setting
- Costume
- Lighting
- Staging
Lighting quality
The relative intensity of illumination
What are the five different types of lighting?
- Frontal lighting
- Side lighting
- Backlighting
- Under lighting
- Top lighting
Frontal lighting
Results in a flat looking image
Side lighting
Sculpts the characters features
Backlighting
Creates silhouettes
Under lighting
Tends to distort features and is used to create dramatic, horror effects or a realistic list source (like a fire place)
Top lighting
Usually creates realism but can also be glamorous (like a spotlight)
What are the two primary light sources called?
The key light and the fill light
What three lights are used in the three-point lighting system?
- Key light
- Fill light
- backlight
What is the principle of contrast?
Using colour to get the viewers attention
Highlight
Patch of relative brightness on a surface
Lighting direction
The path of light from it’s source or sources to the object
Key light
The brightest light source, providing the brightest illumination and the sharpest shadows
Fill light
Less intense illumination that fills in, softening or eliminating shadows cast by the key light
High-key lighting
An overall lighting design that uses fill light and backlight to create relatively low contrast between brighter and darker areas
Low-key lighting
Creates stronger contrasts and sharper, darker shadows. Often the lighting is hard and fill light is lessened or eliminated.
Motion capture
The whole body is filmed for the purpose of creating a CGI character
Performance capture
Concentrates on the face for the purpose of creating a CGI character
Overlap
A spatial clue that makes an object or person seem closer to us because her body masks things further away
Limited palette
A few colours in the same range
Monochromatic colour design
When a filmmakers emphasises a single colour, varying it only in either purity or lightness.
Depth cues
Elements in the image that create a 3D impression
Planes
The layers of space occupied by persons or objects. They are described according to how close to or far away from the camera they are: foreground, middle, background.
Arial perspective
The hazing of more distant planes
Size diminution
Objects further away are normally smaller
Linear perspective
Parallel lines converge at a distant vanishing point
Shallow space composition
A shot with little depth
Deep space composition
A shot with lots of depth
Practical lighting
Lighting coming from irl not set lighting
