Mind map
Stylistic Codes
Mind map: Stylistic codes
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Stylistic Codes
Mise en Scene
- Costume
- Reflects a characters personality
- Hair
- show if theyve been doing physical activities etc.
- Makeup
- Important to show someones character
- Lighting
- Important to show night/day, tension.
- Props
- Show someones surroundings
- Setting
- Show where someone is or set the scene
- Figure expression
- Show someones expression to show mood/feelings
- Body Language
- Used to show feelings
- Costume
Framing and angle
- Wide
- A wide shot is used to show the scene/area.
- Close Up (CU)
- Usually used to show an expression or reaction
- Medium shot
- Good for conversations and hand gestures. Known as 2 shot because it fits 2 people in
- Overhead
- Show something from above (Birdseye view)
- Over shoulder
- To show what someones looking at
- Point of view (POV)
- To show what someones looking at
- High angle/Low angle
- Long shot
- To show the entire subject
- Medium close up (MCU), Medium Long shot (MLS)
- Straight shot
- Show people straight on
- Wide
Movement
- Tracking
- Follows/Tracks the subject as it/they move
- Slow motion
- Puts more emphasis on their movements
- Zoom in
- Makes you notice something about the subject
- Zoom out
- Notice surroundings
- Tilting
- Tilt the camera to give a surreal effect
- Speed
- Effect on how fast/slow something is moving
- Handheld
- Cameraman is part of the video
- Crane
- Taken on a crane, shows moving up/down a great height
- Panning
- Usually used to show an area
- Tracking
Colour
- Contrast
- Makes something look strikingly different, stand out
- Brightness
- How bright something is, effects how you look at the subject/scene
- Black and White
- Often used if you want an old-movie effect.
- Filters
- Affect the colour-scheme of a picture/video
- Saturation
- Intensity of a colour on an image
- Desaturation
- Contrast