Miss En Scene studies

        

What is Mise-en-scène?

Mise-en-scène is the stage desing and arrangement of actors in scenes for theater of film production, both in visual arts through story boarding
The Mise-en-scène elements are:
- Set Design
- Costume
- Properties
- Staging and Composition

 1. Set Design

         The set design in the introduction scene shows about what kind of world they are living. In this scene, the producer is trying to show that they are living in 17th to 19th century as the buildings are quite old-fashioned, not very modern-looking exterior and gothic.

          2. Costume

                        

            The costume in this scene shows classic and elegant detective outfit, a trench coat, panama and suit where usually a detective in common would wear in any shows. By the costume, we can see that the characters indicate suspense expression as detective should be, especially when solving or investigating cases.     

            3. Properties

            I took these 3 scenes to describe completely what are the properties convey. The guards are holding guns around the island which imply mysteriousness as they are hiding something or protecting valuable object. The ferry that all the characters use to get into the location to the asylum and the wire around the high walls where these properties are used to give the lockdown, restricted and remoted feels. The match also shows that there were lack of lighting also to give suspense and tense atmosphere which is normal in thriller movie

            4. Staging and Composition

             

            

                                                                                                                                                                    

                The cinematographer uses medium close-up shot

Glossary Reference

Active audience: engages, interprets, and responds to a media text in different ways and is capable of challenging the ideas encoded in it
Auteur: a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of a production give a film its personal and unique stamp, and has a great influence on the film

Camera: a device used to take photographs or produce films
Camera Dolly: a wheeled cart or similar device used in filmmaking and television production to create smooth horizontal camera movements
Code: a system of signs or symbols that are used to communicate meaning
Connotation: a word that suggests a different association than its literal meaning
Convention: the commonly accepted meaning created by the codes
Crane: a crane shot is a shot taken by a camera on a moving crane or jib
Cross-cutting: video editing technique of switching back and forth between scenes, often giving the impression that the action occurring in different locations is unfolding at the same moment.
Cut: transition from one shot into another
Decode: to convert the coded message into intelligible form
Denotation: the literal straightforward definition of a word
Desensitization occurs when an audience is repeatedly exposed to shocking or violent content. Repeated experience numbs the effect
Diegetic Sounds: those that link to something visible on screen, and can also be heard by the characters. This includes dialogue and the sounds of objects/things on the screen
Dissolve: This occurs when the beginning of one shot gradually overlaps the end of another
Dolly: when the camera moves closer to a subject, a dolly out is when it moves further away
Editing: the act of changing texts or film, deciding what will be removed, kept, and arranged in a media
Encode: to convert from one system of communication into another
Fade: transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image
Flashback: a scene that takes place before a story begins



Hypodermic needle theory: a model of communication suggesting that an intended message is directly received and wholly accepted by the receiver
Iris provides an alternative to a fade-in or fade-out. Use this playful masking technique to draw the viewer's attention creatively to something specific before the rest of a scene comes fully into view
Mise-en-scene: everything within the frame
Negotiated Reading: the audience understands the meaning and connotations of a text, but they may reject certain elements too
Non-Diegetic Sounds: all of the sounds that the audience hears but the characters cannot - this could be narration, ambient sound, “mood” music, and some sound effects
Oppositional Reading: the audience rejects the texts meaning - might not even engage with the text
Pan: when the camera moves horizontally to reveal more information about the setting or surroundings - sometimes used to establish a scene that can not all fit within one shot
Passive audience: more likely to accept the messages encoded in a media text without challenge and are therefore more likely to be directly affected by the messages
Preferred Reading: the audience decodes the text exactly as the producer intended - maybe they have the same ideological position
Reverse Shot: film technique that involves two characters in the same scene who are filmed separately using different camera angles
Reverse Zoom: this is the opposite of zoom - more commonly known as zoom out
Sound: something that can be heard
Tilt: when the camera tilts vertically to reveal more information about the setting - often used to give the viewer more information about the objects or characteristics or the outfit of the character
Track/ Tracking: when the camera is following the subject
Zoom: when the zoom (camera feature) moves in on a character or object, to show more detail