Mise-en-Scene

We know how important costuming is. The color chosen for specific characters is very telling as well. In this image you see Edward Scissorhands is dressed in black. What is the effect of his costume compared to Peg who is clothed in Lavender?

• Edward looks cool and he is popular,

• Edward looks like he fits in with the other character, and everything will be fine

• Edward looks like a freak, an outsider and possibly dangerous

• Edward looks like an artist who will perform creative and great works of art

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Mise-en-Scene does not include

• Lighting

• Props

• Genre

• Setting

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Mise-en-scene is

• the number of scenes.

• everything that appears before the camera.

• the meaning behind a film.

• everything that is behind the scenes.

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Mise-en-scene incorporates the following elements

• Setting & Props,Costume,Hair & Make-up
• Lighting & Color,Position of Characters & Objects in frame
• Facial Expressions & Body Language
• All of the above

Which is not an element of mise-en-scene?

• Plot

• Costumes

• Facial expressions

• Props

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Positioning of characters has been used here to

• balance out the frame.

• indicate the relationship between the characters.

• make the scene look visually appealing.

• create symmetry and peace in the frame.

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The German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) pictured here likely uses distorted shapes

• because it was all they could do in the 1920s

• to disturb the audience and enhance the disharmony and horror

• to make the setting look more realistic and balanced

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The contrast in color and character placement suggests that

• The dominant image is authoritative and successful

• The subsidiary contrast is authoritative and successful

• The dominant image is in danger

• The subsidiary contrast is heroic

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How many elements of mise-en-scene are there?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

The opening scene of Rear Window led us to infer that

• the plot would mostly take place in LB Jeffries' apartment.

• Jeffries is a photographer.

• they characters are experiencing a heat wave.

• All of the above.