Note
Mise-en-Scene:
Settings & Props
Costume,Hair & Make Up
Facial Expressions & Body Language
Lighting and Colour
Positing of characters/objects within the frame
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
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.
9 types of shots:
Extreme close-up: The Incredibles, The Hunger Games
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
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