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Preliminary Exercise 3: Mise en scene Codes and Genre Convection Bubble Diagam

october 3rd-7th, 2022      

  The key objective for this exercise was to learn about mise en scene codes, genre, and iconography conventions, and how they join to produce meaning for audiences. In pairs, students created a bubble diagram to illustrate mise en scene codes for one of these genres: Crime, High School Drama, Comedy, Sci Fiction, Action, and Horror. After students completed this exercise, they will then know how to identify their common knowledge of their movie and television viewing experience. 

In this exercise, students had to understand that setting is items in a frame that pertain to a certain place, space, time period, and time of day. Set design is the placement of props and the setting of a scene. Students also had to understand how the hair, makeup, color composition, props, and lighting and how their meaning to the movie/scene.





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