Mise En Scene

Mise en scene is all of the components that make up a shot. There are several pieces that are important such as the angle, color, lens, and depth.

Angle:
There are 5 different camera angles, birds eye view, high angle, eye level shot, low angle, and oblique angle. All of these different angles were tested in the early 1930s when film was really booming. As some of the video clips we saw in class, it is obvious the director is experimenting with all these different camera angles.

Color:
The color of a shot is important because it tells the viewer where they should direct their attention. For example in this shot everything in the picture is all brown and grey but the woman is in bright blue. This makes it so you direct your attention to her.

Lens:
There are several different types of lens used in film today. Such lenses are called telephoto lens, wide-angle lens, fast film stock, and slow film stock. The telephoto lens draws objects closer but takes away from the depth of the image. The wide-angle lens takes an image an increases that depth of that image, sometimes blurs the edges.

Depth:

Talking about changing the depth, the depth is another technique used to draw the viewers attention to one object or another. In the picture above, it creates a depth in the background, making that blurry. This allows the viewer to focus on what is "in focus" little depth. In this image, it is the characters that have little depth, and the background that is farther in depth of the image.