Poltics of Cinema

When you write a poetry , short story , novel , writing an article , painting a canvas or making a film , you would have never realized that how your brain/mind is working i.e conscious mind which make you feel select the theme/ topics guided by your unconscious mind . unconscious mind is the part of brain which generally helped you dreaming and above all it guide you to select colours , style , actions , and all thoughts whatever you believe in ,is shaped by your education, surrounding ,upbringing , and social nurture.

So profession of art is not all about the expressing the ideas, it depict you and your souls.

It is therefore we can say that film making is total politics most part of it, is studied under the theme of Mise-en scene

Mise-en-Scene

(Everything that appears before the camera)

The setting
The costume and make-up
The use of figure, expression and movement by actors
The lighting
Positioning within the frame

Acting

The Style Scale

Formalism, expressionism, -Form over content

how things are shown is most important, and beyond a usual representation of
reality. Expressionist films are highly stylized, and are characterized by oblique camera
angles, distorted shapes, bizarre settings, high contrast lighting and, the surreal and

Realism

Subjective. ↔Content over form –

Looks like real life - the intent is to make us forget it is a representation. This is the dominant style of most films, and is sometimes referred to as "the style of no style

Setting Setting gives a sense of place and time. Whatever the film is, you should always analyse the set because it provides important clues about the nature of the film, such as:

where the action takes place
* when the action takes place
* the mood
* the characters
* the genre of the film.

Costume and Make-up

Costume and make-up can be considered as part of the set, because

they indicate:

* the period
* the state of society
* social class
* cultural backgrounds
* character traits.

Changes in costume indicate changes in character, e.g.:
* rich to poor
* taking off clothes as lowering defenses.
* Clothing might also be a trademark.

Figure, Expression and Movement

•Body language

•Appearance

•facial expressions (very significant in close-ups)

•sound elements.

•The way a character stands and moves is important.

•If they are the foreground they might be considered more

important.

•If they move against a stationary background attention is drawn

to them.

•Even distribution of characters makes for a balanced shot,

whereas uneven distribution is unsettling to the eye.

•Positioning of characters within the frame may even indicat

emotional distance

Some Questions to use…

1. Dominant--Where is our eye attracted first? Why?

2. Lighting Key--Is the lighting high or low key? High contrast? A combination?
3. Shot and camera proxemics--What type of shot? Camera distance?
4. Angle--Low? High? Oblique? Neutral?
5. Color values--What colors or hues are dominant? What is the color

symbolism?

6. Lens/filter/stock--Are these used to distort or comment on the

scene?

7. Subsidiary contrasts--What are the main eye-stops after the dominant?
8. Density--How much visual information is there? What is the texture?
9. Composition--How is the screen space segmented and organized?
10. Form--Open or closed? Window view or proscenium arch?
11. Framing--Tight or loose? Do the characters have room to move?
12. Depth--How many planes of depth are utilized? How do they

interrelate?

13. Character placement--What part of the frame do the characters

occupy?

14. Staging positions--How are they positioned in relation to the

camera?

15. Character proxemics--How are they positioned in relation to each other