Looking at Mise-En-Scene in the Blind Side
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Looking at Mise-en-scéne
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The Blind Side
Kirstin Kuball
Abstract
Looking at everything onscreen and noticing why John Lee Hancock placed it in the way he did. What does he want the viewer to see and take away from the film? What is the purpose and how does it change the meanings? Themes in the film are black & white and wealth & poverty.
Mise-en-scéne, a French term used to describe the “placement in a scene” or “onstage” of everything that the viewer of the film visibly sees. Including but not limited to: actors, lighting, sets and settings, props, costumes, and make-up. Everything that is onstage in the scene was placed in a specific way before filming even begins. This is all because the director of the film wants to portray an issue or theme of the film to the viewer through the use of everything we see onscreen. Just like in our surroundings, the use of the buildings, landscape, and infrastructure will show us the theme/issue we are seeing/in. Whether it is tall buildings with a lot of taxis on the roads and sculptural landscapes placed on the sidewalks that can support the fact that we are in the city. Where if we were in a home subdivision, we would see a curving road infrastructure and many homes with small front yards with green grass and fence lining the backyard. Mise-en-scéne is the fundamental value of film that defines our location in the material world. In the films we watch around the holiday season, every single one will have the homes wrapped in garland, wreaths on the front door, and lights on the trees/bushes. Once again to portray one of the themes of the movie or to support the time of year the movie is taking place in. Before knowing what mise-en-scéne really was before this class, I never would have thought that everything on the screen was placed there for a reason and had thought go into where it would be placed
Looking at Mise-en-scéne
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The Blind Side
Kirstin Kuball
Abstract
Looking at everything onscreen and noticing why John Lee Hancock placed it in the way he did. What does he want the viewer to see and take away from the film? What is the purpose and how does it change the meanings? Themes in the film are black & white and wealth & poverty.
Mise-en-scéne, a French term used to describe the “placement in a scene” or “onstage” of everything that the viewer of the film visibly sees. Including but not limited to: actors, lighting, sets and settings, props, costumes, and make-up. Everything that is onstage in the scene was placed in a specific way before filming even begins. This is all because the director of the film wants to portray an issue or theme of the film to the viewer through the use of everything we see onscreen. Just like in our surroundings, the use of the buildings, landscape, and infrastructure will show us the theme/issue we are seeing/in. Whether it is tall buildings with a lot of taxis on the roads and sculptural landscapes placed on the sidewalks that can support the fact that we are in the city. Where if we were in a home subdivision, we would see a curving road infrastructure and many homes with small front yards with green grass and fence lining the backyard. Mise-en-scéne is the fundamental value of film that defines our location in the material world. In the films we watch around the holiday season, every single one will have the homes wrapped in garland, wreaths on the front door, and lights on the trees/bushes. Once again to portray one of the themes of the movie or to support the time of year the movie is taking place in. Before knowing what mise-en-scéne really was before this class, I never would have thought that everything on the screen was placed there for a reason and had thought go into where it would be placed