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MEDIA STUDIES

The arrangement of performers and props on a stage/shot before the camera in a film.

It refers to:
Setting (location) Facial expressions
Space (compositional balance) Body language
Lighting (high or low key) Visual effects
Costume (period/fashion) Props
Acting (stylistic)
The Help (2011) is set in rural
Mississippi in the early 1960s.
Watch 'The Help' here
The Great Gatsby (2013) was set in
the 1920s.
All characters are dressed in period-
style costume and make-up.
Watch 'The Great Gatsby' here
The concept of rule of thirds is used
in Rear Window (1954).
The points of interests are at the
intersectional points of the lines.
Watch 'Rear Window' here

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