Analysing Space and Place: ACMI’s Setting the Scene: Film Design from Metropolis to Australia
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
Setting the Scene: Film Design from Metropolis to Australia is an exhibition by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, running until 19 April 2009 in ACMI’s underground screen gallery at Federation Square, Melbourne. Setting the Scene is about the work of the production design teams who create the worlds that films occupy. This exhibition is a useful way to consolidate the students’ awareness that everything they see in a film (the mise-en-scene) has been carefully planned and put there for a specific reason. Setting is a key element of film mise-en-scene and identifying the ways in which setting reflects the themes and drama of a film is instrumental in film analysis.
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Posted by Thomas Caldwell 
