Film & TV Language: Mise-en-scene video feedback and learner response

 1) Type up your feedback from your teacher in full.

     WWW:

• Courier font for script
• Excellent performance
• Good framing
• Good planning
• Decent lighting
• Good facial expressions
• Decent audio
• Costume (hat)
• Accurate post production (framing)

      EBI: 

• Avoid lighting the whole face - chiarascuro
• No tears
• Framing on other side
• Too much light on background

2) Type up a summary of the feedback you have had from the rest of the class - bullet points is fine.

WWW:

• Great acting
• Right font used
• Good facial expressions

EBI:

• Angle is wrong
• Lighting needs to be harsher

3) Use all the feedback you've been given to write your own self-assessment of your video using WWW (What Went Well) and EBI (Even Better If...)

I think that my angles were wrong, rather than the face being on the right it should of been on the left. However, whilst juggling two jobs of lighting and filming this ended up compromising the quality of both, even making my lighting too soft when it should be harsh and unflattering.

4) Now reflect on your own work in more detail. How did your planning (script, shot list) help clarify and develop your ideas?

 For example writing the script helped me to understand the specific tones and emotions the character has during her dialogue, and I could use this understanding to guide my actress when trying to embody this character.

5) Thinking technically, how could you improve your work for future videos? (E.g. filming, editing, audio levels etc.)

I think by having another hand whilst filming, I can get better quality outcomes in all elements next time. 

6) Finally, what have you learned regarding the importance of mise-en-scene in film and television? Write a paragraph to answer this.

This project taught me the importance of  the little details that mise-en-scene entails, as whilst trying to replicate the original film I realised that not including them could have different effects or not give off an significant effect at all. For example, my misuse of lighting, the rounded lighting created a even, flattering tone, when it should be piercing  and unflattering, I did not capture the rawness and the misery of the character as well as I could had I used the mise-en-scene correctly. The mise-en-scene is present to communicate a more deeper meaning and connotations of perhaps the characters setting or circumstances implicitly without having to outright state it, adding to the whole production.