GENERIC CONVENTIONS MISE EN SCENE Mise en scene

GENERIC CONVENTIONS

MISE EN SCENE • Mise en scene is the arrangement of scenery and props on a stage or on the set of a film. It’s the way the scene is put together and usually has a lot of importance to the scenes.

SETTING • It’s the place in which something is set the surroundings of where something is positioned.

VISUAL STYLE • Visual Style is used to define the appearance of an application. It defines a common style to be used and adopted by multiple components.

THEMES • the main subject that is being discussed or described in a piece of writing, e. g. the quest for power in a film if a theme. Themes of power Themes of loss

IDEOLOGY • Identified as a body of ideas reflecting the social needs of an individual, group, class, and culture, or is also known as the “world view”. Women dependant on man

STEREOTYPES • A popular belief about specific social/ethnic groups or types of individuals and it is mostly conceptions of groups based on assumptions.

ICONOGRAPHY • Iconography is what we expect to see along with a genre, like in Western movies, the iconography we expect is cowboys, horses, saloons, sheriffs and stand offs.

CINEMATOGRAPHY • Cinematography is the art of how the camerawork is done in a film.

SPECIAL EFFECTS (SFX) • SFX is an illusion created for films and television by props, camerawork, computer graphics, e. g makeup and CGI.

SOUND • Sound is everything we hear in a movie, like sound effects, dialogue and music. It can either be diegetic (sounds within the scene) or non diegetic (added over the scene like music or narration)