Mise - en - Shot

Mise en shot

• Camera movement
• Short scale, depth of field, deep focus
• Length of take
• Pace editing

Long take

• Anything significally longer than the norm
• In 1940’s, anything over 9 seconds long is considered a long take.
• Examples: Rope, Nine lives

Deep focus – keep several planes of shot in focus at the same time.

• You can see the background, foreground and the middle ground.
• It is used in scenes that have a big space, it allows several actions to be filmed at the same time, used in combination with long take, so decreasing the need of editing.
• What are the positives and negative of using this in mise en shot

Positive

Negative

Positives: Its not as confusing as using so many cuts to focus on two different things. Establishing shot and action shot, all in one No need of editing and very little and camera movement. You focus attention. Verisimilitude, looks as it is real. Actors are allowed to act and develop their characters and display their virtuosity. Audience feels not manipulated, cuts can feel opposite of verisimilitude. Increases tention.

Sense of no escape, audience can’t get out of the scene, almost suffocating. Lack of action, too slow, could be tedious and boring It is a bit monotonous Can make the audience not feel involved It can feel as it one long establishing shot.