Blog post #3: Balancing Mise en scene

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This is a still from "The Crown" that shows the contrast of light to dark to take away from the real meaning of the scene. The bright light in the background gives an lighter tone to what's happening.

This is a still from the "Simson's" Which shows how the color can guide the audience attention from what's going on. Here the bright blue stairs are taking away from the yellow man sliding down. 

This is a still from "The Crown" which shows the size difference between the room and the single person sitting in the room. The size of the room looking extra big kind of shoves the single person down which gives a serious tone.

This is a still from "There will be blood" shows how frontality can shift the focus. This gives the scene a 2 dimensional look which makes the audience focus only on the up-close person and kind of of shifts what's happening behind it all.

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The contrast between the light from the computer on the right side and the very to little light on the left side can shift the audiences perspective.

The red spider man on the left side draws more attention due to its color then the neutral kola on the right side. 

In the picture I used the size to shift the audiences eyes. In the back there is a smaller man but everyone eyes are on the soccer ball since its bigger and taking up most of the space.

This Photo I use frontality to divert the attention to both. Since I created a 2 dimensional look to the screen. It leaves the feeling of neutral ground.

3. Some challenges faced while making my still shots were what figures I would use and how I would position them in a way to show the 4 main shots needed. The contrast one was the hardest due to the limited resources I had. It took many shots and trial runs to see what could be the best way to depict the goal which was contrast. I finally got a good take after a long minute. The 2nd hardest was the frontality. That seems to be an very easy one to mess up but a hard one to capture. It didn't take as many try's as the contrast photo but still gave me hard time. This time it wasn't because of the resources but the angle I was using before. After I tried a couple shots I got the angle that fit nicely with what I was supposed to present. Overall, even though there were some challenges that I came across, I was able to use examples and focus on the true meaning behind each still photo. I also found that the examples from movies or Tv can show me way more then you could think. I learned that angles make up shots as well as contrast, color, size, and frontality. Its all made up for a reason and that's something that caught my eye.