Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Christian- Fenwick Mise en Scene "Blow- Up"


Dominant: The brunette actress is the dominant in the scene because she is wearing the brightest color and is almost in the center of the frame. She is not an important character in the over all film, the man she is looking at (the photographer and the subsidiary contrast) is the most important in the film. The brunette is looking at him, drawing the viewers eye to him as he attacks her.
Lighting: The light is bright and High. The people stand out against the white background and look at little too saturated.
Camera Proxemics: The frame has personal camera proxemics. The entire film is based around the idea of being apathetic to the aesthetics of beauty by being surrounded by it too much so the way the entire film is shot is as if someone is constantly taking pictures of the action of the film. Each frame is specifically composed to look like a photograph and there are almost no intimate proxemics in the entire film. This frame happens to be personal, but in the film that is as close proxemics to the camera as it gets.
Character Proxemics: The characters are in a triangle. The brunette and the man have personal proxemics because he is trying to seduce and shock her. The blond and the other two characters have a social proxemics.
How does the frame support the message of the frame and the scene : The frame looks like a photograph. It could easily be something that is in a photobook, this fits into the aesthetics of the rest of the film. The colors and the lighting help add to the photographic effects, The fact that the main character is not dominant in the scene lends to the idea that he is constantly thinking and surrounded by beauty by is uncaring. He is not really looking at the women.

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