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The Importance Of Scenography

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Scenography is a discipline that helps us appreciate that the use of space in cinematographic narration is not an arbitrary decision, but that it forms part of the narrative paraphernalia. While temporal relations are dominant in auditory signs, in visual signs, spatial relations are dominant. Up/down; in front/behind; close/distant; left/right are not indifferent decisions in framing an object on the screen. Horizontal and vertical axes are not neutral dimensions of pictorial representations (Chandler 2010, 110). Apart from the conventional ideological connotations of space, there are equally the superstitious connotations that the audience can gather from the significance of the positions of particular images. An upward position is associated …show more content…

What is it therefore that determines the good quality of a picture? Basically all the decisions taken for a frame are part of the considerations in ensuring picture quality. A shot that is a masterpiece in a particular diegetic sequence turns out to be a disaster in another. Poor light or too much of light are very important factors that have serious effects on the tonalities of the colors at play or the fuzziness of the image in question. The speed of the object or the subject filmed, the camera’s ability to adapt to this kinetic implication and give a focused image, the gaining of white balance are equally important issues to be considered. Optical illusions are common tools in the hands of filmmakers in the process of editing. How much tempered use is made of it to avoid a manifest cheating of viewers is also another consideration about the picture quality of any film under investigation. But what eventually is to be the defining factor on judgements about the quality of the picture is not just a preserve of the camera techniques. In the process of editing, images get compressed and they lose some quality and sharpness. The aesthetic blend between the title and the background picture are also key considerations that merit our

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