Balancing Mise en Scène

This post will show both stills and my own attempts at balancing Mise en Scène. With an dive into my attempts, sowing how i shot it any my struggles using the concepts of contrasts, color, size, and frontality.

Part 1: Existing Media

Still images from Devil May Cry 3: Special edition, Released May 23, 2006 

                 This shot represents size                                                 This shot represents Contrast

        

                Image of Ghost of Tsushima                                       Image of God of War Ragnarök

                    Released July 17, 2020                                             Released November 9, 2022

                                                                  

Part 2: My Original Shots

        

      A picture of Bear Bear getting a healthy                          A picture of a bottle and a Mocha Pot,

       snack, showing Contrast.                                                  showing Color.

 

     A picture of Bear Bear and Gandalf                            A picture of Gandalf marveling at a huge

     talking, showing Frontality.                                         bottle, showing Size

Part 3: Reflection

    This experience was simple, and not too bad once you understand what you need to capture. Each concept needs it's own, different thing that is specific to it. the Frontality one needed one character to be facing nearer to the camera than the other, as opposed to the Size one, needing the focus to be simply larger. The difficulty of both of them are different too, the size one took some finesse to capture as opposed to the frontality. I had to put the bottle far away from the plushy to make the illusion of size and making it convincing enough to not make it noticeable.

    The other two were also simple, but took a while thanks to me needing to know the difference between contrast and color. I decided to go with color being it compared to a lack of color, and contrast being a difference of colors depending on it's vibrancy and warmness. These are identifiable and did not take long to decide what to do after I realized what to do.

    Overall The main challenge for this were figuring out how to frame the shots, where to position the plushies and what is it that it requires.