Film 369
Spring 2015
Film Title: _____________________________________________________ Director: _____________________________Year: __________
Screening Table
MISE-EN-SCÈNE
Setting: Studio/location shooting?
Artificial world or authentic? Period
piece or contemporary? Digital or
special effects? Color?
OBSERVATIONS
RELATIONSHIP TO FILM
OBSERVATIONS
RELATIONSHIP TO FILM
Props and their functions?
Costumes, hair, makeup: Natural or
stylized? Coordinated with
setting/plot?
Lighting: quality? (hard/soft)
Direction? (Frontal, sidelight,
backlight, top lighting) Source?
(three-point, high-key, low-key, fill
light)
Acting: naturalized or stylized?
Visual elements? (facial expression,
gesture, appearance) Verbal
elements? (voice, dialect)
Typecasting?
Blocking: How are the actors
blocked in the frame?
CAMERA WORK
POV (objective, subjective)?
Angle (low, high, bird’s eye)?
Canted or straight?
Scale (close-up, medium shot, long
shot)?
Camera movement (fixed frame,
panning, tracking)?
Optical movement (zoom, rack
focus)?
Focus and depth of field (are all
the planes in the frame in focus, or
only those in the fore-ground? Is
the space in the frame shallow,
medium, deep?)
EDITING
Transitions (cut, wipe, dissolve)?
OBSERVATIONS
RELATIONSHIP TO FILM
OBSERVATIONS
RELATIONSHIP TO FILM
Graphic or sonic relations between
shots? (graphic match, sound
bridge)
Spatial relations between shots
(establishing shots, cross-cutting,
etc)?
Temporal relations between shots
(flashbacks, elliptical editing)?
Continuity editing used?
Discontinuous editing used (jump
cuts, montage, crossing 180degree line, etc)?
SOUND
Composed music?
Speech/dialogue (voiceover,
asynchronous sound/image
relations)? What are
characters saying?
Sound effects? (ambient
sounds?) Diegetic music/sound?