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Micro and Macro Features

Mise-en-Scene is everything that is on the screen during a movies.

Lighting creates the mood and atmosphere.
There are different types of lighting e.g. classic hollywood lighting also known as the three point lighting system.
The quality of lighting is the intensity.
Direction of lighting can create a mood or atmosphere.


Setting gives the location and what it can convey.

Props are items that might be key to the story.

The performance itself gives facial expressions, body language and position of the actors.

The costumes is the inc hair and make up.

Genre

Narrative

A clip from the film Batman Begins uses cinematography quite well as it shows different types of shot angles as the clip progresses giving the appearance that the audience is following the chase.This scene also uses sound quite effectively to match the intensity of the the chase scene.
The genre of a film like this would be a thriller or action film.The codes and conventions of a thriller like this is for there to be a lot of action, a chase scene and and a hero or protector.



A clip from Enduring Love doesn't use sound very well as the music doesn't match what is happening in the scene very well.The cinematography was very good with the clip as it showed the balloon from the woman's point of view and then a birds eye view at the end when the man falls from the rope of the hot air balloon.The genre of a film like this would be a romance film.The codes and conventions of a romance film is that there is two people who fall in love, a complication so they cant be together and a happy ending of them being together.

A clip from The Good The Bad And The Ugly used cinematography very well during the duel as it kept going from a birds eye view to a close up of there faces.As for performance the actors facial expressions added to the tension in the scene.The genre for a film like this is a western genre.The codes and conventions of a western is that it be set in the American old west,includes cowboys and usually concludes with shootout or quickdraw.      


Framing is the process of the cinematographer choosing what to put into the frame and deciding the shot size, angle and composition.

Shot size refers to the difference between the camera and the subject.
Wide shots allow the audience to see the whole area.
A medium shot frames a person from head to torso.
Close up shots allow the audience to see the facial expressions of the actors.

A camera angle is where the camera has been placed.
Low angle is camera pointing up giving the actors a position of power.
High angle is the camera looking down making actors look weak.
Canted or dutch angle is slightly tilted giving the impression of confusion.


In 1895 the Lumiere Brothers invented the Cinematogreaphe a machine that acted as a motion picture camera, printer and a projector all in one.

Up util 1929 most films were silent.


One of the first people to use special effects was George Melies which was created in camera.

If the camera is interrupted and then started up again it gave the illusion of objects or people disappearing and or reappearing.This was later know as jump cuts.

If the film ran through the camera twice it was known as double exposure  by masking one of the lenses.

Edwin S Porter was the first editor.In life of an american firefighter he created drama by cross cutting (parallel editing)between two scenes which was the house on fire and the firemen on the way for a dramatic rescue.

D.W.Griffith created the first full length feature films which were Birth of a Nation and Intolerance.

Editing terms:
Continuity Editing:Spatial Continuity
Establishing Shot is a wide shot at the beginning of a scene.
Shot/Reverse Shot is a shot that shows the action from the opposite side of the last shot.
Eyeline Match is where you cut in between to shots to make the illusion that a person from one shot is looking at another person from another shot.
Match on Action is where the editor cuts from one shot to the other where the actions match even when the shots could have been taken hours, days or months apart from each other.

Videotapes were invented in 1950 so people could have entertainment from there own home.
 Advantages of these were that they were cheaper than film and video tapes could be reused over and over again.
Disadvantages were that film had better quality and splicing was not possible for them

Scream's codes and conventions of genre is that of a horror film which is where you usually find a creepy killer usually wearing a mask or something to cover his or her face, usually at night, a weapon like a knife or gun, a chase scene where the victim tries to escape.