Reading #4

The Bordwell/Thompson reading discussed Mise-en-scene. Mise-en-scene is a very broad concept encompassing everything within the frame of view. This includes acting, costumes, makeup, scenery, lighting, on-stage sound, and a variety of other things. In any good scene, these components are assembled in such a way to create balance in space and time. The reading goes over different styles of doing this, and what kinds of scenes they create. (Different types of lighting, where objects appear in the scene, etc.)

Performative Interventions uses Second Life to talk about how art has changed in the twenty-first century. It discusses time in art, machinima, and even gives an introduction to fluxus, the art form that our guest speaker last week discussed. The main theme of the piece seemed to be new media in Second Life and other virtual worlds, and the way it has changed performative art.