Mise-en-scene
the element of Mise-en-scene
- settings & props
- costume, hair & make up
- facial expressions & body language
- lighting and color
- positioning of characters/objects within the frame
Settings and props:
Settings & locations plays an important part in film and animation
sets built from scratch or a great deal of time
Props: Toy Story, The Godfather (the empty chair in the scene means that the godfather has been assassined)
Costume, hair & make-up:
- act as an instant indicator to us of character’s personality, status and job.
- Examples: 101 Dalmatians, Barry Lydon
Facial expressions & body language:
- Facial expressions provide clear indicator of how sb is feeling
- Body language indicate how someone is feeling towards another character/ reflect state of their relationships
Positioning of characters & objects in a frame
- positioning in a frame can draw our attention to an important char/obj
- an animator can use positioning to indicate relationships between peoples
Lighting & color
can be used to achieve a variety of effects:
- highlight important char / obj in a frame
- make char look mysterious by shading
- reflect mental states / hidden emotions
color- cultural meaning/ emotional (red: luck(eastern) blood, alert)
Low key Lighting:
- created by using only key & back lights
- produces sharp contrasts of light
High Contrast Lighting:
Examples: Street of Crocodiles, Citizen Kane
High Key Lighting:
more filler lights are used. lighting is natural and realistic to eyes
Example: The barber of
Natural lighting:
Examples: Alice, Paperman, The French Connection, The Hunger Games
Color and film:
Examples: Cries and Whispers, Amelie, The Secret of Kells, The Revenant(cold color, color contrasts, cooler or warmer)
films have color plate to control the proportion, contrasts, etc
DOP:
The distance from the near to the farthest
Deep Focus: both close and distant planes are shown in sharps focus, which allows film makers emphasize a char/ object which is far away from cam.
Shots:
9 types of shots:
- Extreme close-up: The Incredibles, The Hunger Games(more psycologically shot, more honest)
- Close-up: Bug Bunny, The Hunger Games, American Honey
- Medium close-up: This Art Club Has a Problem!, The Third Man
- Medium Shot: There will be good
- Long Shot: Wall-E
- Extreme Long Shot
- A one-shot
- A two-shot
- A group shot
- High Angle Shot
- Low Angle Shot
POV
Moving Shots:
- Pan shot
- Tilt shot
- Traveling shot (Dolly shot)
- Crane shot
Animation art and cinema
from outset animation was destined to be multi-cultural, multi functional medium fulled medium fueled by technological change.
Hollywood the avant garde
1913 Raoul barre a painter and invented the peg system providing a universal registration system
1915 saw the introduction of cel, clear acetate that could be drawn on without having to redraw the background in every frame
Art Element Vocabulary
- line
- shape: the feeling of the out fit of obj in 2d perspective
- form: the feeling of the volume of obj in 3d perspective
- color
- volume
- space
- texture