KTA 6 - Analysis of mise en scene (PMD)

mise en scene:

• costumes
• props
• location
• gestures
• lighting (natural/high key lighting & artificial/low key lighting)

Give:

• All features of mise en scene
• 2 examples of each feature of mise en scene

PEE - Point, Evidence, Explain/Effect on audience

Point:

("the props/costumes create meaning")

Evidence:

("where/when it happens and what it looks like")

Explain:

creates - ("empathy, tension, verisimilitude (realism), stereotypes/challenges stereotypes")

Example words to use - denotes, denotation, connotation, connotes

Female characters  - Laura Mulrey theory (1975) 

'The male gaze':

• "sexualised"
• "objects"

Carl Rogers character theory (1980) - Ideal self/Ideal partner 

Represented through:

• high key lighting
• gestures
• costumes