Mise-en-scene

Objective: To develop understanding of textual analysis and mise-en-scene.

Denotation: The literal meaning of the image - What it is.

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Key Terms:
- Denotation - Connotation - Semiotics - Symbolic - High key lighting - Low key lighting

Connotation: The ideas or feeling that an image evokes - what it means.

Denotation: ! The literal meaning of the image - What it is.

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Connotation: ! The ideas or feeling that an image evokes - what it means.

Props

Lighting

Costume Mise-enscene

Colour

Make-up

Body language

Positioning

Setting/Set

Lighting

Key Light

Backlight

Filler Light

The main light source, creating the strongest sense of the direction of lighting.

Illuminates the back of the subject, providing denition and depth.

Softens the effect of the the key light and removes unwanted shadows.

Three Point Lighting System

Back Light

Key Terms:
- Denotation - Connotation - Symbolic - Semiotics - High key lighting - Low key lighting

Filler Light Key Light

What does the lighting reveal? What does it hide? What does the lighting emphasise? What does it reduce in importance? Does the lighting create contrasts between particular elements of the miseen-scene? Does the lighting create mood?

COLOUR

Can you explain the many ways colour has been used to develop meaning?

Key Terms:
- Denotation - Connotation - Symbolic - Frame - Semiotics - High key lighting - Low key lighting

Setting/Set

Key Terms:
- Denotation - Connotation - Symbolic - Frame - Semiotics - High key lighting - Low key lighting

Positioning

What can you say about the positioning of these two characters?

Film Focus: Schindlers List!

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Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Denotation: ! Describe how colour is used in the clip. Connotation: ! Identify and explore the potential meanings created by the use of colour in the clip.
Writing Your Response
1. Contextualise the scene by explaining to the reader what is happening 2. Use evidence from the text and your knowledge of mise-en-scene to construct you point (D/C Grade) 3. Explain the meaning created (C/B Grade)! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4. Analyse the impact on the audience (B/A Grade)

Positioned on a hill, Oskar Shindler is looking down into a German village watching as its Jewish inhabitants are being forced from their homes. Oskars attention is drawn to a little Jewish girl as she moves through the chaos seemingly undetected. The scene is shot in black and white with the exception of the little girls dress, which is deep red. This causes her to stand out within the frame, immediately drawing the attention of the audience. The colour red could represent the danger in which she nds herself and symbolise the death that surrounds her. However, the lm makers decision to only colourise her character could also be interpreted as a symbol of her innocence.

Using colour in this way has created an emotionally charged scene. The viewer is forced to identify with her character, knowing what her likely fate will be. The audience also share the experience of Oskar Shindler as he begins to question his role within the war.