Week 5 Flashcards
Mis-en-Scene 4 categories
anything that happens in front of camera.
1.setting and props
2.costumes and makeup
3.Movement and Performance
4.Lighting
Quality of Lighting
Hard vs. Soft
-Hard creates clear defined shadows
-Soft creates a diffused illumination
=wraps around objects, projecting soft shadows.
Low Key Lighting
stronger contrasts and shadows
High Key Lighting
Overall lighting that uses fill light and backlight to create relatively low contrast between brighter and darker areas.
Source and Direction of Lighting
-Frontal
-Backlighting
-Underlighting
-Sidelight
Frontal Lighting
recognized by its tendency to eliminate shadows
Backlighting
comes from behind subject
Underlighting
comes from below subject
Sidelight
sculpt characters face.
Lighting 4 major aspects
- quality
- direction
- source
- colour
Source and Direction of Lighting
Three Point System
- Key light- primary source, brightest illumination, strongest shadows, most directional
- Fill Light: Less intense- softening or eliminating shadows.
- Back Light: creates silhouette effect.
Low-Key Lighting
employs key light with little or no fill to create strong contrast between light dark portions.
Setting and Props
Location vs. constructed sets
Realism as style
prop may become motif
Costumes and Makeup
May be coded to establish time period, character traits etc.
Production designer hired early on by director and is higher than art director
Staging Movement and Performance
How actors perform/ how directors tell them how to perform
