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Mise en Scne French for placing

on stage

Taxi Driver

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Mise en Scne Staging of the action

Physical setting &

dcor How these elements

are framed

How these elements

are photographed

Manhattan

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Mise en Scne Frame dimensions

Aspect Ratio

1:33:1 (Pre-1950s &TV)

1:85:1 (standard)

2:35:1 (widescreen)

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Mise en Scne

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Mise en Scne Dominant

Where is our eyeattracted first?

Bend It Like Beckham

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Mise en Scne

Silence of the Lambs

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Mise en Scne Subsidiary contrasts

What are the main

eye-stops after

taking in the

dominant?

The BlackSwan

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Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo

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Mise en Scne Lighting key

High key?

Low key?

High contrast?

Some combination of

these?

The Philadelphia Story

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Mise en Scne

The Grifters

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Mise en Scne

The 40 Year-Old Virgin

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Mise en Scne Shot and camera

proxemics

What type ofshot?

How far away is

the camera from

the action?

Silence of the Lambs

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Manhattan

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Mise en Scne

The Hurt Locker

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Mise en Scne

Austin Powers

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Mise en Scne Angle

Are we (and the camera)

looking up or down on

the subject? Or is the camera neutral

(eye level)?

Red Eye

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Red Eye

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Mise en Scne

KillBill

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The Last Picture Show& The BlindSide

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Silence of the Lambs & Ondine

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Mise en Scne Color values

American Beauty

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KillBill

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Mise en Scne

Raging

Bull, The Last Picture

Show

&M

anhattan

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Mise en Scne Density

How much visual

information is packed into

the image? Is the texture stark,

moderate, or highly

detailed?

The Scarlet Empress

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Mise en Scne Density

How much visual

information is packed into

the image? Is the texture stark,

moderate, or highly

detailed?

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

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Mise en Scne

The Kings Speech

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The Scarlet Empress

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Mise en Scne

The Godfather

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Mise en Scne

From Here to Eternity

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Hud

Mise en Scne Composition

How is the two-

dimensional space

segmented andorganized?

What is the underlying

design?

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Mise en Scne Composition

The Rule of Thirds

From painters of the

Renaissance (14th

century)

Interest should be at

the interersecting lines

as our eyes do not go

to the center of a

photograph

Botticellis Venus & Mars &

Up in the Air

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The Godfather

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Mise en Scne

The Departed

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Mise en Scne

Hot Tub Time Machine

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Mise en Scne

The BlackSwan

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Training Day

Mise en Scne

Form

Open or closed?

Does the imagesuggest a window

that arbitrarily

isolates a fragment

of the scene?

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Mise en Scneor a proscenium

arch, in which the

visual elements are

carefully arrangedand held in

balance?

The Departed

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Mise en ScneDoes the composition

suggest action or

confinement?

Beauty vs truth

Traffic

M

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Silence of the Lambs

Framing

Tight or loose?

Do the charactershave no room to

move around, or

can they move

freely without

impediments

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Mise en Scne

Silence of the Lambs

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Mise en Scne

Midnight

Cow

boy

Depth

On how many

planes is the imagecomposed?

Does the

background or

foreground comment

in any way on the

mid-ground?

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The Grifters

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Mise en Scne

Citizen Kane

Character placement

What part of the

framed space do thecharacters occupy?

Center? Top?

Bottom? Edges?

Why?

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Double Indemnity

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Mise en Scne

.

The Graduate

Staging positions

Which way do thecharacters look vis-

-vis the camera?

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The 400Blows

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Mise en Scne

Double Indemnity

Character proxemics

How much space isthere between

characters?

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Mise en Scne

The Last Picture Show

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Mise en Scne

Broken Flowers

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Mise en Scne

The WeddingCrashers

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Mise en Scne

Notes on a Scandal

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The Manchurian

Candidate

Directed by John

Frankenheimer Starring Lawrence

Harvey, Frank Sinatra,

Angela Lansbury, Janet

Leigh

1962 Dir. Of Photography

Lionel Lindon

Production Design

Richard Sylbert

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John Frankenheimer,1930-2002 Started in live television

Way ahead of his time -more appreciated now

The Paranoia Trilogy Seven Days in May

The Manchurian Candidate

Seconds

Birdman ofAlcatraz

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Red Scare & The Cold War Americans feared communist attack

Russia feared American attack & theAmerican's atomic bomb

Russias anti-capitalism Russias problematic actions in the

Soviet zone of Germany

America refused to share nuclearsecrets

Russia expanded west into EasternEurope + broken election promises

Russias need for a secure westernborder

Russias aim of spreading worldcommunism

Resulted in Communist witch huntslead by Sen. Joseph McCarthy

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Set at the height of anti-Communisthysteria and McCarthyism (see GoodNight & Good Luck) whenbrainwashing was a real concern

Anticipated Americans fascinationwith conspiracy theories

Failed at the box office

Banned in Iron Curtain countriesuntil 1993

Rumored to have been pulled fromdistribution as a result of theKennedy assassination, the film wasactually involved in a legal disputeregarding Sinatras share of theprofits

Re-released in 1988