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== Mise- en-scene A still from Donnie Darko still from Donnie Darko

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=Mise- en- scene is a term summing up= everything in the frame. This is design- design of set, props, costumes, camera frame, camera lighting and character performance.

 one ingredients of mise-en-scene is actually the colour hues of the imagery inside the film frame --- Colour Theory: An introduction Colour comes through in costume, set
 * Symbolic uses of colour

Colour may be interpreted as having symbolic use.

red ||
 * || Red through its association with fire and blood is used to represent danger, anger and violence. For the same reason it is also associated with affairs of the heart: love and passion. ||
 * || [[image:http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/images/colours/orange.jpg caption="orange"]] ||
 * || [[image:http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/images/colours/orange.jpg caption="orange"]] ||

=Setting= =Adele by Luc Besson= =Setting Practice See Adele by Luc Besson Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec.His first behind-the-camera outing since [|Arthur and the Invisibles] (and, it looks like, his first good one since [|Angel-a]), it's based on a series of Franco-Belgian comics by writer and artist Jacques Tardis. Blanc-Sec (it means Dry White) is a feisty Parisian investigative journalist in the years immediately before and after the First World War (she sat the war itself out in cryogenic suspension).Besson's film is based on the first serialised newspaper comic strip from 1976, collected as Adèle et la Bête. As you'll see from the trailer, it involves a pterodactyl unleashed on France's capital city, and all manner of adventuresome Egyptian weirdness. = media type="youtube" key="a6djPGS3RCA" height="385" width="640"

Colour Theory


 * Why are some films filtered in blue and some in sharp light?**
 * Why are costumes carefully made in colour** palettes **in film?**

** example of colour palette: JARHEAD ** http://www.emecs.or.jp/guidebook/eng/pdf/07persian.pdf
 * Colour has a role to play with our emotions and the symbolic representation of mood.**
 * For example, blue (Cool) colours which tend to recede like in the shadows of a face and red (warm) colours**
 * seem to come forward . In the bands of colour in the example below the cool blue can be regarded as the sky in the distance, the greens can be regarded as green fields in the middle distance, the warm reds at the bottom can be earth colours like in the trees and fence posts and the land in the foreground which are nearest us. There are lots of other nuances of colour in between. Sample.**

Jarhead was set in the Persian Gulf. The palette is a range of bleached colours. the temperatures in Gulf average 28 degrees Celsiusin summer and is freezing in winter with constant blue skies. The standard marine fabric fades.

Color as Symbol An understanding of color theory has been around since ancient times. Colors have been recognised for their symbolic power across many cultures and in nature herself.

Orange symbolises creativity and endurance. As a secondary color it combines elements of the colors used to mix it. It unites the creative passion of red with the clarity and wisdom of yellow. || Yellow is the color of the sun - the life support for our planet. As such it has come to represent life, energy, happiness, hope and wisdom. || Green, as the color of plants and grass, is the color of nature and all that is associated with health and growth. However, it is also used to represent more negative traits such as envy and inexperience. || Blue is the coolest and most calming of all the colors. As the color of the sky, it has been used since ancient times to represent heaven. In classical mythology, blue was the color associated with the gods, Venus and Jupiter. In Christianity, it becomes the symbol of the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven. As the color of the ocean, it is also suggests qualities like freshness, purity and hygiene. || Purple is the color of royalty, wealth and power. In times past, purple dyes were rare and expensive. Only the rich and powerful could afford to wear clothes of this luxurious color. || Brown is the color of earth, wood and stone. As such, it evokes craftsmanship and the great outdoors. It is also used to represent humility: a down to earth virtue. || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Black and its association with darkness is used to represent death, evil, witchcraft, fear and sorrow. || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Grey is the natural color of some metals and stone, but it also has negative associations with the weather, boredom and old age. || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">White and its association with light is used to represent peace, purity and goodness. || The above is not an exclusive list of the symbolic uses of color as there are different interpretations of color theory across a range of countries and cultures.
 * || [[image:http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/images/colours/red.jpg height="100" caption="red"]] ||
 * orange ||
 * orange ||
 * || [[image:http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/images/colours/yellow.jpg height="100" caption="yellow"]] ||
 * yellow ||
 * yellow ||
 * || [[image:http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/images/colours/green.jpg height="100" caption="green"]] ||
 * green ||
 * green ||
 * || [[image:http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/images/colours/blue.jpg caption="blue"]] ||
 * blue ||
 * blue ||
 * || [[image:http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/images/colours/purple.jpg height="100" caption="purple"]] ||
 * purple ||
 * purple ||
 * || [[image:http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/images/colours/brown.jpg height="100" caption="brown"]] ||
 * brown ||
 * brown ||
 * || [[image:http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/images/colours/black.jpg height="100" caption="black"]] ||
 * black ||
 * black ||
 * || [[image:http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/images/colours/grey.jpg height="100" caption="grey"]] ||
 * grey ||
 * grey ||
 * || [[image:http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/images/colours/white.jpg height="100" caption="white"]] ||
 * white ||
 * white ||

Pick a Director

study example 1.

MARIE ANTOINETTE Marie Antoinette ( See http://filmmiddleschool.wikispaces.com/mise-en-scene)
 * http://filmmiddleschool.wikispaces.com/Marie+Antoinette**

Study example 2. Set -
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 18.18181800842285px;">ROAD TO PERDITION **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">cinematography- **
 * Less is more**
 * Wide screen with Depth of field**
 * Black silk filters**
 * // Road to Perdition // allows you to feel, smell, and breathe the air of 1930s Chicago.[[image:Road.jpg]] **

LaSalle Street ** is a major north-south street in [|Chicago] named for [|Sieur de La Salle], an early explorer of Illinois. The portion that runs through the [|Loop] is considered to be Chicago's [|financial district]. For most of its length, the street has the address 150 West. See [|Streets and highways of Chicago]. Costume Designer cont. ANTONY: It's interesting to hear about costuming as a collaborative process. I tend to think about the designer up there on the mountain designating what people wear... WOLSKY: No, it's mostly collaborative. I prefer it that way. PRESS: What were the biggest challenges to your costumes throughout the production? WOLSKY: The rain, and keeping [costumes] dry. We had a lot of rain. I expected the bullets [which necessitate bullet wounds]. The multiples [costumes that require duplicate sets] can be the worst problem. The rain was the worst. [In the movie] there's a lot of rain at night, and it doesn't show [on film], so they use torrential rain. It was like we were doing a Dorothy Lamour movie like THE HURRICANE, just sheets of rain. At one point, Tom [Hanks] put his head down and the water [was so heavy] he started to laugh. He couldn't concentrate. I should have done hats with funnels in the back. __Cinematography__. A film that had minimal dialogue and conveyed emotion in the imagery. A "cold look" was created for the to emphasize the characters' emotional states. Hall took advantage of the lighting and the environment to create symbolism for the film -atmospheric lighting similar what is found in the paintings of Edward Hopper

Mendes and cinematographer [|Conrad Hall] sought to convey similar atmospheric lighting for the film's scenes, applying a "less is more" mantra

Hall also shot wide open s cenes that retained one point in the [|depth of field] sharply focused. Hall considered the technique to provide an emotional dimension to the scenes. The cinematographer also used unconventional techniques and materials to create unique lighting effects. One of Hall's methods was to use black silk in daylight exterior scenes to filter the light enough to create an in-shade look

Hall purposely distanced the camera from Hanks's character, Michael Sullivan, at the beginning of the film to establish the perspective of Sullivan's son, who is unaware of his father's nature. Hanks's character was filmed as partially obscured and seen through doorways, and his entrances and exits took place in shadows. Shots in the film were drawn directly from panels in the graphic novel [|//Road to Perdition//], illustrated by Richard Piers Rayner. An instance of the direct influence was the scene in which Michael Jr. looks up at the Chicago skyline from the vehicle, with the skyline reflected in the vehicle's glass.

A seamless 40-second driving scene in which Michael Sullivan and his son travel into Chicago from the countryside was aided by visual effects. The live-action part of the scene was filmed at [|LaSalle Street], and due to the lack of scenery for part of the drive down LaSalle Street, the background of Balbo Drive was included with the use of visual effects

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