1. “Everything in its right place
Mise-en-scene
“Everything in its right place

2. Mise-en-scene French term meaning “everything arranged on the stage”
4 major components: setting, actors, lighting, and composition.
The mise-en-scene is the primary way that a filmmaker creates motifs, reinforces themes and establishes mood in a film.

3. Setting
Establish time and place, introduces characters (adds character details), may setup major themes, creates mood.
Studio or on location
Indoors or outdoors, home or work, public spaces, spacious or cramped, sunny and bright or dim and shadowy, etc.
Certain genres are intimately linked with setting: Western, gangster, horror, rom-com.
Forced perspective: arranging buildings and objects on the set for a specific effect
Set dressing – what details have been added/left out intentionally?
Costumes – a means of expressing inner states, or character values.

5. Actors Most prominent component of narrative filmmaking
Blocking – movement of actors in screen space
Conventional acting vs. Stylized/Brechtian Estrangment
Acting Styles:
Character – Play the same supporting roles (Tim Roth, Jermey Piven)
Personality -Essentially play themselves (Woody Allen)
Method – Attempt to become the role. Often remain in character even while camera is not filming.

6. Method Acting

7. Lighting
Furthers audience’s understanding of character, action, theme and mood.
3 Attributes
Quality (hard or soft)
Placment (direction from which it strikes the subject)
Contrast (high or low)

8. The 3- Point Lighting System

9. Alternative Lighting Set-Ups

10. Composition
Visual Arrangement of objects, actors and space within the frame
Symmetry vs asymmetry
Loose framing vs. tight framing
Depth of field (in focus vs. out of focus)
Fixed frame vs moving
Color palate (may be black and white)
Attracts attention
Creates mood
Motifs associated with character or theme
Symbolism

11. Angles Low Angle High Angle Eye-Level Bird’s Eye Worm’s eye
Canted/ Dutch-Angle