The Shot: Mise-en-Scene

Question 1

What are the four general areas of Mise-en-Scene

Answer 1

• Setting
• Costume
• Lighting
• Staging

Question 2

Lighting quality

Answer 2

The relative intensity of illumination

Question 3

What are the five different types of lighting?

Answer 3

• Frontal lighting
• Side lighting
• Backlighting
• Under lighting
• Top lighting

Question 4

Frontal lighting

Answer 4

Results in a flat looking image

Question 5

Side lighting

Answer 5

Sculpts the characters features

Question 6

Backlighting

Answer 6

Creates silhouettes

Question 7

Under lighting

Answer 7

Tends to distort features and is used to create dramatic, horror effects or a realistic list source (like a fire place)

Question 8

Top lighting

Answer 8

Usually creates realism but can also be glamorous (like a spotlight)

Question 9

What are the two primary light sources called?

Answer 9

The key light and the fill light

Question 10

What three lights are used in the three-point lighting system?

Answer 10

• Key light
• Fill light
• backlight

Question 11

What is the principle of contrast?

Answer 11

Using colour to get the viewers attention

Question 12

Highlight

Answer 12

Patch of relative brightness on a surface

Question 13

Lighting direction

Answer 13

The path of light from it’s source or sources to the object

Question 14

Key light

Answer 14

The brightest light source, providing the brightest illumination and the sharpest shadows

Question 15

Fill light

Answer 15

Less intense illumination that fills in, softening or eliminating shadows cast by the key light

Question 16

High-key lighting

Answer 16

An overall lighting design that uses fill light and backlight to create relatively low contrast between brighter and darker areas

Question 17

Low-key lighting

Answer 17

Creates stronger contrasts and sharper, darker shadows. Often the lighting is hard and fill light is lessened or eliminated.

Question 18

Motion capture

Answer 18

The whole body is filmed for the purpose of creating a CGI character

Question 19

Performance capture

Answer 19

Concentrates on the face for the purpose of creating a CGI character

Question 20

Overlap

Answer 20

A spatial clue that makes an object or person seem closer to us because her body masks things further away

Question 21

Limited palette

Answer 21

A few colours in the same range

Question 22

Monochromatic colour design

Answer 22

When a filmmakers emphasises a single colour, varying it only in either purity or lightness.

Question 23

Depth cues

Answer 23

Elements in the image that create a 3D impression

Question 24

Planes

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

Arial perspective

Answer 25

The hazing of more distant planes

Question 26

Size diminution

Answer 26

Objects further away are normally smaller

Question 27

Linear perspective

Answer 27

Parallel lines converge at a distant vanishing point

Question 28

Shallow space composition

Answer 28

A shot with little depth

Question 29

Deep space composition

Answer 29

A shot with lots of depth

Question 30

Practical lighting

Answer 30

Lighting coming from irl not set lighting