Mise-en-Scène Cinematography

Mise-en-Scène Analysis (Mr. Almond) 12:39 https://youtu.be/PISrB3b77Uk

· Dominant Feature: Size, color, focus
· Lighting Key: High key (bright), low key (dark, shadowy), high contrast
· Shot / Angle / Proximity: bird’s eye, high angle, eye level, low angle, oblique angle.
Different shot types can be combined.
· Color Values: dominant color, subsidiary, and color symbolism
· Subsidiary features: What do you see next?
· Screen Density: How much visual information is packed into the image?
· Is the scene stark, moderate, or highly detailed?
· Composition: Horizontal, vertical, diagonal
· Depth of Field: On how many planes is the image composed?
· Focus directs our attention
· Deep Focus and shallow focus. Hollywood typically choses shallow focus
· Character Placement: top, bottom, sides
· Shot Framing: tight, loose
· Do the characters have no room to move around, or can they move freely without
impediments?
· Diegetic Audio: Audio directly tied to the image. Sound effects
· Non-Diegetic Audio: Sound outside that doesn’t make sense. Soundtracks.

What is Mise en Scene: How Directors Like Kubrick Master the Elements of Visual Storytelling
by Studio Binder [10:13] https://youtu.be/3euNFd7-TCg

· Mise-en-scène: Props, set design, costumes, makeup, color, lighting, blocking,

framing, lenses, sound, frame rate, music
· Naturalistic – world in scene matches our own
· Theatrical – exaggerated worlds, unintended to be normal – Tim Burton
· The Shining: How is mise-en-scène used? What does it convey?
· Toys and carpet, intense carpet, idea of mazes; Danny’s vocals, ominous swelling =
isolated and vulnerable