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Television Aesthetics

Television Aesthetics. COMS 169: TV Criticism. Today’s Agenda. Housekeeping: www.thetvdoctor.blogspot.com Have you chosen your text? Mise-en-scene (elements prepared before recording) Videography (elements used during recording) Sound, Style, and Editing (elements used after recording)

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Television Aesthetics

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  1. Television Aesthetics COMS 169: TV Criticism

  2. Today’s Agenda • Housekeeping: • www.thetvdoctor.blogspot.com • Have you chosen your text? • Mise-en-scene (elements prepared before recording) • Videography (elements used during recording) • Sound, Style, and Editing (elements used after recording) • Most of my examples tonight will contain multiple aesthetic elements. How many can you identify?

  3. Mise-en-scene “Put in the scene” A film term borrowed from theater

  4. Mise-en-scene: Set Design • Studio vs. Location • No ceilings • Character entrance and exit

  5. Mise-en-scene: Costuming

  6. Mise-en-scene – Lighting(pay attention to how you feel) • Direction • Intensity • Color • Source

  7. Mise-en-scene – Actor movement • Blocking • Shallow space • Typical…lateral movement • Deep space • One actor near the camera, one far away

  8. Videography Some film people get offended when you call it “cinematography” Both terms are technically correct!

  9. Videography – Focus • Soft focus (glamour shots) • Deep focus (all planes are in focus) • Closer to what the human eye experiences • Rack or push-and-pull focus

  10. Videography – Framing • XLS (establishing shot) • LS (actor’s entire body) • MCU (actor’s chest up) • CU (shoulders to top of head) • XCU (anything closer than CU)

  11. Videography – Framing • Zoom! • The LENS moves but the camera does not • Traditional zooms feel outdated

  12. Videography – Camera height and direction • Low angle (camera looks up) • High angle (camera looks down) • Canted angles • Panning • Tilting

  13. Videography – Camera movement • Truck • Dolly • Crane • Hand-held • “Documentary” style • Viewer is aware of the camera’s presence • Steadicam

  14. SoundStyleEdting Post-production

  15. Sound, style, and editing • Point of view • Cut • Fade, Wipe, Dissolve…but usually Cut • How long it takes versus how long it feels • Continuity • Violating our expectations makes us tense or suspicious, or we find it humorous

  16. Sorry…more ER…a quick one

  17. ContinuityPillows Pillows Pillows Pillows Pillows Pillows Pillows Pillows Pillows Pillows Pillows Pillows Pillows Pillows Pillows

  18. Sound, style, and editing • Speech • Music • Sound effects • Foley artist • Diegetic sound (characters can hear it) • Non-diegetic sound

  19. Listen…

  20. What do you see/hear?

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