MISE EN SCENE AND LIGHTING

Mise en scene_ppt

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ACTIVITY 1:

View the clip below and comment on how the children's costume helps establish their character. The following PP contains stills of the characters for closer scrutiny.

Charlie and the chocolate factory

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ACTIVITY 2:

You will now look at this clip from Chicago and will be asked to comment on the clip's use of lighting and colour:

ACTIVITY 3:

Watch this clip from The Hogfather and comment on how the clip uses lighting.

ACTIVITY 4:

Many genres have quite specific mise-en-scenes and lighting requirements. Often just a glimpse of a film clip will give us enough information to deduce what genre we are watching.

Imagine you are the production designer for a TV company and are charged with devising a list of ideas for the mise-en-scene of some new dramas. Your teacher will allocate you one of teh following to work on:

• The Comp - a new prime time school-based drama
• Northern Grit - a realistic northern-set drama about relationships and social issues
• Sleuth - a slightly retro Poirot/ miss Marples style detective drama - set in rural thirties England
• Forensics - a modern police drama, focusing on the forensics department in a big UK city
• Ward 10 - a hospital based drama with a soap element to it
• Star Patrol - sci-fi drama based around a small space craft tasked with pursuing The Intergalactic League's most wanted.
• The Limes - new drama series set in an old people's home
• Kids Rule - a new children's drama set in a post-apocalyptic world where all adults have been killed off and only the under 14s survive - they have to find their own way in a new world
• Mandela Tower - new soap set in a tower block in inner city London and its local surrounds
• Highwayman - a new family drama series for Saturday nights based on the exciting adventures of Dick Turpin, the famous highwayman, and his gang of outlaws.

You will need to think about: setting, props, costume for the main character, colour palette, lighting.... You can ignore character and performance for this activity.