Solved: Mise-en-Scene and Movement
This is the exam for Week Three on Photography, Mise-en-Scene and Movement. Watch the assigned movie on Netflix. Focus on the clip (part) that’s assigned. Watching the movie will help you understand the context of the clip. The questions on Photography, Mise-en-scene and Movement will each have their own short clip. Make sure you answer the questions in a private place so nobody can see your answers. Exams that have language with more than a 10% match on Turnitin will both fail. All your work must be your own original analysis- no quoting or copying from other sources. Answer the questions in a Word document, then copy paste it into an email and send me the email. Please DO NOT send it as an attachment. I’ll reply with comments, and your grade, after the deadline for submitting the exam. Exam Week Three: Photography, mise-en-scene and movement Answer the following questions on photography, mise-en-scene and movement. Answer the discussion question on all three. Each question counts 25%. 1- Photography : (25%) Discuss ONE shot in The Grandmaster, around Minute 6:44 with the subtitle “Not bad.” Start looking at the end of the fight scene around 6.33. There are three people looking through the ornamental gate in the shot. When you find the shot, pause/freeze it, so you can look at it carefully. Then answer the following questions about the shot. Explain the reasons for your answer.- What type of shot is the shot ? (Extreme long shot, etc.)
- What angle is the shot? (High angle, etc.)
- What is the lighting key of the shot? (Extreme high key. etc.)
- Is the lighting of this scene high contrast or low contrast? Is it directional? What do you notice about the lighting? Explain.
- How many planes of focus are there in the shot; what type of focus is used? Explain.
- Watch the clip from about Minute 11 to Minute 12. Freeze the frame at the subtitle “Sadly, my time is up.” What are the dominants in the shot? What are the subsidiaries? Does this change? If so, when and how?
- Freeze the frame in the shot around Minute 15 with the subtitle “You’re too anxious to make your mark.” Give the character position for all the people in the shot. Explain.
- Is this shot around Minute 15 (same as b) open or closed form? Explain why you think so.
- Is this shot around Minute 15 (same as b) shot dense or loose? Explain why you think so.
- What is the proxemic distance between the women watching from the balcony in the shot around 20.28 with the subtitle “That quite a battle formation.” Explain why you think so.
- Movement (25%) Watch from minutes 16 to 34: the scenes starting with a shot of the daughter's face through the scene of the contest and ending with the shot of the daughter and other women sitting at the banquet. For each question, EXPLAIN your answer briefly.
- What camera movement is used between about Minute 16 and Minute 18 during the subtitle “The first time I came here was before you were born.” Explain.
- Just after that, what camera movements are used during the subtitles “Some thrive in light. Others in shadow.”
- What two camera movements are used most often to show the fight scene between the still shot Sister San, Bagua Master and the subtitle “Sister San, it’s just practice.” Name and explain which two, and why they are used.
- What kinds of movement are used most often to show the faces, feet and hands of people between the subtitles “I’ve done that many times before. No big deal” and “Such sensitivity. Impressive.”
- Starting at about Minute 33, and the title “ Of Master Gong’s Martial Arts,” and ending with “ Her moves are deadly,” what kind of shot is mostly used? Why? What’s the point?
- Discussion : (25%) In general, what style is used in the scenes discussed in Question 1 (Photography), 2 (Mise-en-scene) and 3 (Movement) ? Does the style here seem more realist, (less manipulation of style, more straightforward) more classical (similar to most Hollywood movie) or more formalist ( more manipulation of style, more artistic)? What is the emotional effect of the scenes? Explain why you think so. Include evidence from the photography, mise-en-scene and camera movement.