Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene

• This is a french term meaning "in the scene"
• It is everything in a scene apart from camera, sound and editing
• The elements of mies-en-scene are the following:

1. Settings and crops
2. Facial expressions and body language
3. Costume, hair and makeup
4. Lighting and colour
5. Positioning of characters and objects in the frame

Colour - Denotation and Connotation

• Example - the colour red
• Denotation - a particular wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum
• Connotations - anger, danger, romance, blood etc
• Yellow - summer, sunshine, happy, cartoon, bee, pollen
• Green - nature, wickedness, earth
• Blue - ocean, calmness, sadness

The colour black would connote darkness, death, shadows etc.

The colour white would connote blankness, heaven, peace etc. 

Foreground- the part of a view that is nearest to the observer and an object in the front of the camera to make something the most important/prominent feature.

Background- a character/object that appears further from the viewer and from the camera.

Middleground- the middle distance between the camera and the background.

Deep focus- a shot where everything in the scene is in focus

Focus pull- the camera operator swaps from focusing on the foreground, with the background being blurry to focusing on the background, with the foreground being blurry or vice-versa. This is to draw the viewers attention to focus on something.