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       Primary colors are  any of a group of colors from which all other colors can be obtained by mixing. Primary colors are said to be the root of every other color. The colors are red, blue, and yellow.        Red is the color of several things, strawberries, blood, fire, cherries, and rubies. Red usually means passion, love, anger, war, heat, and danger. In other cases,  the color means excitement, speed, power, and strength.        Blue is the color of water, blueberries, the sky, the ocean, and sapphires. Blue usually means peace, tranquility, trust, truth, harmony, unity, loyalty, spirituality, and fulfillment. At other times, the color means cold, depression, technology, and conservatism.        Yellow is the color of bananas, the sun, lemons, egg yolk, and amber. Yellow usually means joy, hope, sunshine, summer, optimism, wisdom,  knowledge , imagination and relaxation. In other circu...

       The objective of the post/lesson is color in film.   Colors mean something on an emotional level and  can help add new visual layers to a film.  Color in film elicit certain emotions and have a psychological effect of people. Three codes used in a film that illustrates color are hue, saturation, and brightness. Hue is the color itself. Saturation is the intensity of the color. Brightness is how light or dark the color is. The three characters of film are dominant color, contrasting foils, and color symbolism. The dominant color of a shot effects the mood or tone of the setting. Contrasting foils are a use of color to specifically connect connotations to specific scenes, characters or objects. Color symbolism is color being used to draw the audience's eye to something in the frame by using contrasting or complementary colors. The screenwriter, cinematographer, production designer, and the director are responsible for color in a film.   ...

       Setting in a film is the time and/or place that the narrative occurs in. The key characteristics of a film are place, geography, time period, time of day, physical characteristics of location, culture/moral values, social and economics values, mood of scene, message of scene, and genre of film. The characteristics I established as the most predominant are the place, time period, and genre of film. Without these characteristics the film won't exist. The characteristic I established as the least significant is social and economic values. This just seems less important than the other characteristics, but it could really depend on the film, and it doesn't matter what film it is all characteristics are still important. The setting is an important mise en scene element because it says where the film takes places. All films have a setting because it's impossible to not have a setting in film.       The objective of the exercise is to do a thorough inv...

        The objective of the post is to apply your understanding of how mise en scene codes and their relationship to the genre conventions of a film. Genre is   the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment. Genre is important to audiences when viewing a film because  depending on what the audience likes and wants to see, the genre will be what they're interested in. Three genre's I'm interested in are fantasy, action/adventure, and comedy. Fantasy is   a genre of  speculative fiction  involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. I'm interested in fantasy because I love to see fictional universes and mythology, just things that don't really exist in our world.  Action/adventure have   quest and discovery, and spectacular scenes of combat, violence and pursuit, action and adventure films are not restricted to any particular histo...

Elements of Mise en scene       Mise en scene is the placement of actors and scenery on a stage for a theatrical, film, or television production. It's the process of deciding what to include in the scene and where it should go on the stage. Mise en scene is important in film because it helps the film be put together. Without mise en scene, scenes from film, or just the film itself would be not as impactful, not as put together or even put together as filmmakers that use mise en scene. The elements of mise en scene are props, set design, costumes, makeup, color, lighting, blocking, framing, lenses, sound, frame rate, and music. Three things that I take away from the video are that filmmaking has two different approaches, Mise en scene and and Montage, there are two basic traditions in mise en scene, naturalistic and theatrical, and French film critic Andre Bazin is one of the biggest champions of mise en scene.       The objective of the lesson is that s tud...