mise en scène

contemporary photography and film

Photographic and Digital Media Stage 5

Goal

When completing this unit of work students will understand the importance of mise en scene in film-making and photography and investigate the practice of classic filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and his influence on four contemporary photographers inspired by his practice. Students will demonstrate their understanding of mise en scène in their art historical and critical writing and their artmaking.

How?

  • This resource can be used with students completing Stage 5 photographic and digital media but would also be a suitable unit for a Stage 5 Visual Arts class as a way of focusing on contemporary artistic practice .

  • Teachers can work through each lesson with the students and interact with students and provide feedback using a shared online platform, such as google classroom, as students progress through the online content in this presentation. Teachers can add resources and / or feedback to support the tasks, and to differentiate learning and can set more specific timelines for student work.

Note: each lesson might take longer than an hour. Artmaking tasks might take several hours. Teachers should advise students of how much time to spend on each activity and which tasks will receive formal feedback.

Lesson 1

Mise en scène and Hitchcock

Lesson 2

Cindy Sherman

Lesson 3

Gregory Crewdson

Lesson 4

Alex Prager

Lesson 5

Tracey Moffatt

Lesson 6

Reflection

Image credits

Date accessed 02/04/2020.