We started a new lesson that focuses on screenwriting and explores all the needs and options you have when it comes to writing a screenplay, the first week looked into Visual Style and Iconography which Mise-en-scene falls under. Mise-en-scene is a word used to describe the design of a shot and the arrangement of the framing, actors and even the lighting and pretty much anything you see in your shot. It's always related to the narrative and is ProFilmic (staging of events for the camera), there are so many details in a shot it's important to recognise all of them and have them correctly positioned or stylised such as the setting, the costumes, the proximity, the acting, the lighting, the camera movement/angle and the framing. Their is a popular tracking shot at the beginning of 1958's Touch of Evil (Orson Welles) that lasts three minutes and twenty seconds that shows the amount of effort and planning you can put into a single shot/scene.
Each genre has its own visual style so it's important to use this to your advantage and take this visual style and it make it your own without disfiguring it too much, like film noir is known to be dark and gritty while a comedy would be more lighter and playful. It's great to break films down into single scenes or even single shots because it reveals the effort and planning that goes into films and how difficult it is to create a successful film.It's important to capture everything you want in your shots and to know everything thats in your shots and not leaving everything to chance and I'm starting to learn some key elements to filmmaking from Mise-en-scene.
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