MACS 100 Lecture 2: MACS 1/25

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Media and Cinema Studies
• Course: MACS 100
• Professor: kozma

Document Summary

Mise en scene: all the elements placed in front of the camera to be photographed. Used as an expressive tool of filmmakers to express themes, style, and ideas. Can be (cid:522)read(cid:523) to help interpret, analyze, and understand images. Defines the material possibilities and limits of space and place. Dramatizes how an individual or group establishes an identity through interaction with the surrounding and sets. World and the objects in it follow regular laws of nature and society. Elements of the mise-en-scene have logical or homogenous relationships to one another. Violates and/or bends laws of nature or society. Framatic inconsistencies within one or between two or more settings. Takes on a life of its own that requires confrontations or creative negotiations between the props, sets, and characters. Expressive: dimensions of mise-en-scene assert themselves independently of characters and describes emotions, psychology, spiritually, etc.