Mise en scene

Mise en scene is a French expression which is used to explain the various design aspects within a film. When applied to the cinema, mise-en-scène refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement, composition, sets, costumes, actors and lighting. Mise-en-scène also includes the positioning and movement of actors on the set, which is called blocking. In modern filmwork, these are all the areas overseen by the director.

It is important because it sets up the content and feel of the film. Uses of dark screen and aloof acting are conventions of horror whereas bright direct lighting and vivid colours are conventions of romantic films.

The descent is a horror film that uses dark and red filters to make it scarier.

Importance of narrative on film and film marketing

Narrative is completely vital to films. It is the content of the film and sets the pace and tempo of a film. Its very important to keep an even narrative in films, especially low budget ones as they do not have the CGI spectacle of the Hollywood film industry. They also are dictated by narrative, many blockbusters are uneven and in the final third the plot unfolds too quickly and all the build up of the film ends abruptly.

The importance of narrative in the marketing is also vital, the viral videos must not reveal too much of the plot but enough to display the genre iconography toward the target market.

Short Films

Here are links to some very successful short films.

Across the hall

ACROSS THE HALL / Alex Merkin from Craig Johnson on Vimeo.

George Lucas in love

George Lucas in Love from Kasper Hauser on Vimeo.

http://www.imheremovie.com/#

This is the link to an online virtual world based around im here

Short film directors

Short film directors make short films in an attempt to get their ablities noticed. The short films require a very small budget in comparison to hollywood films. The short films are basically a highlight reel of what the director can do.
These are some people who started of as short film directors and what they have done since;
Im here- Spike Jonze

Jonze was already a successful director befor the release of i'm here. He has directed films such as Being John Malkovich, adaption and were the wild things are. He has also directed numerous music videos.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jonze#Other_filmography













George Lucas in love- Joe Nussbaum

Joe Nussbaum is an American director who first found success after directing his self funded film George Lucas in Love. After this was passed around the offices of Hollywood he the signed a deal with dream works studios and has since directed various films such as the sleepover, American pie the naked mile and Sydney white.

Across the hall- Adrien Grenier

Grenier is an american actor and producer. In 2005 he produced part wrote and starred in across the hall. After the sucess of the short film across the hall was turned into a full feature length adaptation. Grenier gained rave reviews and this helped him to get the role of Vincent Chase in the hit show Entourage. Since then he has starred in many hollywood films and directed some as well.

Short film festival

This is a short film festival which focus' on comedy shorts instead of the more conventional dramatic ones.
Short film festivals are set up for amateur film makers to display their work in hope of becoming a professional film director or for the fun of having an audience for your work.
The people who really take notice of short films are movie studios. The studios have people there looking at the films and looking for new directors and talent and a short film is a good way to get noticed on a minuscule budget.

http://www.lacomedyshorts.com/