Weekly diary of work for ‘Design for Animation, narrative structure and film language’.

This week we did research on the Mise-en-Scène. I learnt that the emotion impact that a good Mise-en-Scène brought to the audience is memorable. It’s the visual information in the frame that shows to the audience. Different costumes and even hairstyles allow the audience to speculate the character’s personality before the performance begins.

Here is the link to this week blog: Week 4: Analysis Of Mise-en-Scène

Things to remember

• The style and culture of costume, makeup and hair need to be matched on one character.
• Everything in the frame tells something.
• Prop can be the tool for identify the character or interact with other characters.
• The setting tells where the story taken place.
• Second reaction and overlapping that hair brings will add a lot of work. Always consider that.
• Use eye contact to show relationship.
• Color always be associated with emotion.
• Don’t put object centralized in the scene.

Note

The elements of Mise-en-Scène

• Setting & props
  • Build from scratch or find a setting which already exists.
• Costume, Hair & Make Up
  • As an instant indicator to audience of a character’s personality, status and job.
• Facial Expressions & Body Language
  • Provide a clear indicator of how someone is feeling/ reflect the state of relationship.
• Lighting and Colour
  • Different lighting to achieve different effects. Relate with the colour of emotion.
• Positioning of characters/objects within the frame
  • Draw audience’s attention to the important object/ indicate relationship.