1. Setting!

2. Costumes & Makeup !

3. Lighting!

4. Figure Movement!

Setting

A filmmaker can use setting to express emotions.Most often, a filmmaker will choose a location or design a 

setting based upon how real it looks.

Lighting quality refers to the relative intensity of 

illumination (hard or soft).

The director controls the behavior of the various figures in 

the mise-en-scène (actors playing roles, sets, props).

1. Photography!

2. Framing!

3. Duration

An image can have a wide range of tones depending, upon the 

type of film stock.

Speed of Motion

Perspective

Filmmakers choose lenses with different focal lengths, each of which will 

render perspective in different ways

Framing also stations the spectator at a certain distance 

from the object.

The duration of a shot affects our understanding of 

how we perceive the cinematographic image.

purely 

pictorial qualities of the shot

filmmaker relies on figure movement, camera 

position, sound, and the pattern of shot lengths

two points in 

space, and imply a relationship between them.

Temporal relations

chronological order, and to assign them some 

duration and frequency.

speech 

Music

Sound effects 

involves a beat, pulse or tempo, and a pattern of accents 

(most often found in music)

e sound is faithful to the 

source as we perceive it.

sense of the spatial conditions in which it 

occurs

If a sound takes place at the same time as the image in terms of 

the story, it is called simultaneous sound