It's everything to do with the actors and the setting. This includes the props, music, makeup and a lot
more.
French term meaning “placing on stage”
It's the arrangement of everything that appears in the framing of the film.
15 Key Points
Colour values
Colour by itself can make
objects/people stand out and can be
used effectively.
Dominant
This is what you see first in the frame.
Ways to control this is: to look at the size of objects - your eyes will direct to
something bigger than smaller, focus the main objects, lighting - easier seen
objects stick out more, and colour can make things stick out more than others.
Lighting
Lighting Types
Three - Point Lighting
The light comes from three different directions,
making the subject with a sense of depth in the frame.
This isn't as dramatic as other lighting techniques
but is most common among narrative cinemas.
High Key Lighting
This lighting makes the scene really
bright and soft but not many shadows.
This lighting is mainly in musicals and comedies.
Low Key Lighting
There is really low levels of light which
causes the scene to have large shadows.
This creates a very dark and mysterious
atmosphere from the obscuring light.
Shot & Camera Proxemics
Extreme long shot
Taking far away from the main objects.
Long shot
This shot shows the whole
character and the background.
Full shot
Just shows the whole body of the character
and as little as possible of the background.
Medium shot
Shows the character from knees or waist up.
Close-up
Only shows small objects or little of a character
Extreme close-up
Focuses on small aspects of objects, showing the detail.
Angles
Bird's-eye view
Photographed directly from above.
High angle
This reduces the size of the objects.
Eye-level shot
This is the clearest and most natural.
Low angle
This adds importance to the object.
Oblique angle
The camera is tilted laterally which makes the
image slanted. This increases the tension.
Lens/Filter/Stock
Telephoto lens
The lens draws objects closer as well
as diminishing the illusion of depth
Wide-angle lens
The lens takes in a broad area and increases the illusion of
depth as well as sometimes distorting the edges of the image.
Fast film stock
This is highly sensitive to light
but creates a grainy product.
Slow film stock
It isn't sensitive to light but creates a
polished looked product.
Subsidiary Contrasts
This is what you see after the dominant,
as well as what is around the dominant.
Density
This is the visual information
that is packed into the image.
The detail in the frame is what makes it dense.
Composition
Horizontal
Suggests placidity or peacefulness.
Vertical
Suggests strength.
Diagonal
Suggests tension or anxiety.
Binary
Emphasises the dynamic interplay.
Triangle
Emphasises parallelism.
Circle
Suggests security and enclosure.
Form
This is chosen by how consciously
structured the mise en scene is.
Open Form
What is in frame around
an ongoing reality.
Deemphasised.
Closed Form
Only what is in the frame.
Carefully structured within the frame.
Framing
Loose Framing
Whereas long shots provides characters the chance to move without boundraries.
Tight Framing
Close up shots make characters
unable to move freely.
Depth
Deep Focus
When all/most of the photograph/frame is in focus.
The part of the photograph that is in focus.
Shallow Focus
Only part of the photograph/frame is in focus.
Character Placement
Where abouts the character stands.
Top
Suggests power, authority, and aspiration.
Bottom
Suggests subservience, vulnerability, and powerlessness.
Left/Right
Suggests nsignificance
Staging Positions
Full-front
Seems inviting to the complicity.
Quarter Turn
Highly intimacy but less emotionally involved.
Profile
Makes it seem like the character is unaware of the
filming making it seem as theyre concentrating..
Three-quarter Turn
Makes the character
seem unfriendly
Back to Camera
This creates a sense of mysteries like the
character is hiding against the world.
Character Proxemics
Intimate distances
It's from skin contact to
about eighteen inches away.
Created the feeling of love, comfort,
and tenderness between individuals.
Personal distances
It's from about eighteen inches away to four feet away.
This is used for more for friends
Public distances
It's from about twelve feet
to twenty-five feet or more.