Film Form

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Film Form
Stylistic system pattern significant usage of
techniques
Formal System
Interacts with

• Narrative (Story)
• Abstract (Implicit ideas)

• Mise-en-scene
• Cinematography
• Editing
• Sound

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Realism and Mise en scene

• Mise-en-scene is often judge by standards of
  realism.
• If we insist to judge filmmaking rigidly on
  realism thus this limits the possible height of
  the imagination as far as Mise-en-scene in
  concern.
• It is better than to examine the function of
  Mise- en- scene rather than to judge mise- en
  scene on our conception of realism.

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Aspects of Mise en scene

• Settings
• Filmmaker uses an existing locale to stage the
  action.
• Filmmaker chooses to construct settings
• Filmmaker emphasizes on authenticity
• Filmmaker is less committed to historical
  accuracy
• Design of a setting can significantly shape how
  audience understand the story and action
• Full size Settings need not always be built
  parts of the settings can just simply be
  paintings and combined photographically with full
  size section of the space.
• Digital special effects are also used to fill
  portions of the scene.
• Props are also a factor of mise-en-scene. This is
  where the object in the setting has a function
  within the ongoing action.
• Filmmaker may also use colour to create parallels
  among elements of settings.

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What aspect of control does Mise-en- scene has to
offer in filmmaking?

• The filmmaker stages the event for the camera
• Cinema-verite is where filmmakers capture events
  without controlling them
• Animated and abstract films control mise-en
  scene, which are mostly impossible with
  performers shot in real time.
• Mise-en-scene involves planning but filmmakers
  may be open to unplanned events as well

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• Costume and make up
• Costume more often than not has a specific
  function in the total film.
• Costume may also be quite stylized, calling
  attention to their purely graphic qualities
• Costumes also play and important motivic and
  causal roles in narratives.
• Costumes is often coordinated with settings
• Originally during black and white film, make up
  is usually necessary because without makeup
  actors faces could not register clearly on early
  film stock.
• Makeup can aim at complete realism. Now, rubbers
  and plasticene compounds are use to create bumps,
  bulges, extra organs and layers of artificial
  skin.

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• Lighting
• In cinema, lighting is more than just
  illumination. Lighting permits us to see actions.
• A brightly illuminated patch may draw our eyes to
  a key gesture.
• While a shadow may conceal a detail or a soft
  curve of a face, a rough grain of a piece of
  wood.
• Lighting shapes objects creating highlights and
  shadows.
• Film lighting
• Quality
• Direction
• Source
• Colour

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• Staging
• Movement acting
• Acting functions and motivation