The object of today's lesson is to extend your growing skills in analysing films as texts, considering, once more, the mise-en-scene and how meaning is created. However, whereas before we have looked exclusively at sill images, we are now going to consider moving images.
So two things we need to consider within the frame of a shot that we have yet to do: 1) that characters and objects may move, changing the relationship between us, the camera, and them; 2) the camera may move, or zoom in/out.
TASK: We will look - again - at the opening of Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954). Discuss and make notes in your journals on:
a) the mise-en-scene used in the opening credits - what feelings of the "world of the film" are we given through all the various elements?
b) the use of camera movement here. When does the camera start to move, how does it move, what mood or feelings are conveyed through this movement?
After sharing your ideas, you will all write two paragraphs and post them, with a suitable image, or, better yet, a film clip from Rear Window.
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