Mise en scene is what the audience sees on the screen, “the most visable part of the film, especially the actors, so much so that for over a century the inclusion of a certain actor has often alone been enough to bring an audience to the theater (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). “ More goes into the production of a film than the end product that the audience views. There is an abundant amount of behind-the-scenes staff that makes all of the “magic” that makes today’s films so special. The creation of a film is so much more than actors memorizing lines for the camera, it is a rich process with multiple rolls with actors and directors that requires many nights of long hours and a tremendous amount of preparation. This paper is intended to describe the elements of film design, from envisioning the story to designing, creating the film and the edited and revised end product that the audience views on the big screen.
Because of technology being so significant, we tend to use as much of it as possible in movies, or adding as many special effects and unique graphics. For instance, now in theatres, 3-D movies are the new trend, they keep the audience engaged with the movie. As for movies in the mid 1900’s, technology was not so varied, so the movies had no choice but to be basic. Currently, Movies in the 21st century are filled with adult (sexually explicit) content, profanity, and even blood and gore. Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”, portray an unnoticed view of these elements.
In modern society, myth is often regarded as historical or obsolete. Many scholars in the field of cultural studies are now beginning to research the idea that myth has worked itself into modern discourses. Modern formats of communication allow for wide spread communication across the globe, thus enabling mythological discourse and exchange among greater audiences than ever before. Various elements of myth can now be found in television, cinema and video games. Although myth was traditionally transmitted through the oral tradition on a small scale, the technology of the film industry has enabled filmmakers to transmit myths to large audiences via film dissemination (Singer, “Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film”, 3-6).
Hollywood big screen vision’s correlations to Violence and Crime For years, movies had been the source of entertainment to us all. Whether it is comedy, romantic, or suspense, it brought a new way to pass our free times. But did it ever occur to anyone, why a director decides to make a certain movie and where did the idea to make a certain movie came from? The answer is usually, we don’t tend to think too deeply into these questions, after all, a movie is just for entertainment, right? Well a lot of directors tend to look around in society to see what may be interesting to watch and what a person can somewhat relate to at the time.
Winter’s Bone Boy did I love this film. What’s the purpose of a film if you don’t connect with your audience? Director Debre Granik grabbed my attention when the film first came on with an amazing song that fitted right in with setting of the movie. I’m appalled by the amount of talent in such a simple movie. Maybe it was the complexity in the characters and their strong ability to capture your attention with every word spoken.
The people watching in this case, with it being a theatrical performance, is us the audience. So by incorporating the audience into this drama they have acknowledged, in an indirect sense, the audience being there and uses us to help further mold the story. With Kenneth’s version I find it to be more representational. In this movie version, they are more engaged with each other and creating a more realistic scenario. There is no actual audience to play towards and this can be seen in how he is more directly engaged with is co-actor with his dialogue ,being more in the moment, emotional and not looking away, except in the moment that he feels someone is watching, never straying away.
Most of the tempos are extremely slow and a mellow romantic tone. There is sound in movies that are not to dramatize the scene but to rather notify the audience that this is an important scene coming up. There are specific elements that should evident, the movement and tone of actors must be believable to convey a story. After viewing trailer, two films come to mind in which the music, narrative, and structure was changed to present two very different themes, one of cheerfulness and the other of horror. The costumes, expressions and music executed, to get the desired end.
When I chose to study Charlie Chaplin I had already learned a good amount of information about his life and career from movies I had seen prior, and articles I had read. However, after watching the movie Chaplin, I already have a greater respect than before for the artist that is Charlie Chaplin. In my life I have been exposed to more Will Ferrell than Charlie Chaplin. So, while I always knew that Charlie Chaplin was one of the greats (arguably the greatest), I did not truly understand all of the hype. When I thought of Charlie Chaplin I imagined the Tramp, but nothing more.
FINDINGS RHETORICAL ANALYSIS Filmmaking happens every time someone wishes to film something with a camera whether it is a home video for ‘You got framed’ or release big budget blockbuster for Steven Spielberg. Either way filmmaking is all about organising scenery where in which the camera will identify the object as a sequence or a scene. What we see on screen as an audience is controlled by the one holding the camera; this means the audience is viewing the footage from another person’s perspective of the image. This is also the case of editing where the editor can chose to keep or discard footage for the benefit of the audience viewing experience. The edited piece is often used to create certain effects and motions that are impossible to
This is because vision is one of the senses we focus most on, even the word “focus” is primarily thought of in visual terms before any of the other senses. Existing in a technologically dependent society reiterates this visual world where we have televisions, billboard advertising, movies and photographs, colour pictorial displays on telephones. These detailed representations of the world around us are everywhere and are taken for granted. It is now safe to say with the widespread use and access to cameras, that photorealism is what we now equate as being most realistic to the vision we see with our own eyes. The camera is accepted as the closest thing to the truth, in many cases we trust it as more reliable than our own eyes.