2 Technical Element
a
Mise - en - Scene
and Design
Mise
- en - scene
means staging action, and it was first applied to the practice of directing plays Bordwell and Thompson, 1990:169.
Mise - en - scene
refers to all elements of set, set dressing, props, costumes, make up, lighting, and even physical posture that are arranged and placed before the
camera lens Douglass, 1996: 119.
1. Set Dressing and Props
According to Douglass 1996: 131, set dressings are the items in the scene such as furniture, picture on the wall, curtain, knick knacks on
the tables, lamps, rugs, and anything that dresses the bare walls on the floor of a set. Our primary concern is usually composing the main subject
within the frame Douglass, 1996: 132. Prop are the objects that actors or people used in the film Douglass, 1996: 134.
2. Costume
A costume is one of the integral parts of play production, which suffers most on the high school stage. Stage costume should express the
personality of the character, revealing his social status, taste, and idiosyncrasies. It should aid the audience understanding of the actor
relationship to the other characters and to the plays itself Ommaney, 1972:461.
3. Make - Up
Make- up in film art is not only for beautifying actor’s faces, but
also creates the actor’s face to be older, younger, shaper, etc Bordwell
and Thompson, 1990: 133.
4. Lighting
Klarer 1999: 61 argues that lighting is indirectly connecting the film stock for certain light conditions have to be fulfilled according to the
sensitive of the film. For the purpose, lighting divides into four major features. There are quality, direction, source and color.
5. Sound
Sound can impart to a scene with enormous force. According to Douglass 1996: 86 building mood in a scene with sound is done
principally through the music and sound effect tracks rather than in the sync soundtrack. Moreover, sound can contribute to the realism of a scene
by providing the ambient background that our audience would expect to hear in the location. Sound effect can powerfully influence our perception
Douglass, 1996: 87.
6. Symbol
Symbolism can be found in the works of our greatest and most imaginative directors, the power of moving images as a mean of symbolic
expression as a form of language has been a subject of fascination and serious thought for almost as long as film has been made Douglass,
1996:250.
7. Casting
Casting is “a vital pre-production process for selecting a case of actors, dancers, singers, models and other talent for a live or recorded
performance. Casting sometimes involves a series of auditions before a casting panel, composed of individuals such as a producer, director andor
choreographer.
8. Cinematography
