Friday, April 15, 2011

Open Framing - Friday 15th April, 2011

What's on today?

Post your paragraph on Closed Framing drafted yesterday, including a relevant screen shot from Elephant.

Open Framing

Key questions:
  • What visual and stylistic features make an Open frame?
  • Why are some films open frame, and what effects are created?
Your task is simple - watch the clips from Junebug ( Morrison, 2005) TWICE .



Discuss and make notes on the following:

What differences in framing and mise-en-scene from Elephant?

What can you see in the framing to make the world of the film seem "real"?

How are the characters made to seem more important than the design and composition of the film? This isn't easy - but think carefully about camera, lghting, sets, costumes, shots, angles, colours - basically anything in the Mise-en-Scene.

Conclusions:
Open framing -
·designed to depict a world where characters move freely within an open, recognizable environment
·feel of reality - a "window" on the world with changes of frame to show constantly changing reality
camera, movement and other visual aspects are secondary to the characters P-O-V of characters. More conventional editing.

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