Originally Posted By Caroline (2 NOV 2008 7:10am)
Oh well done Andromus.   I do like that one.  I've heard it before and the instant I saw it there I thought - that has to be it - and if KamisoriX has any ambition to live to see his next birthday he'll delightedly announce that the search is over and clutch this nice little Frenchy expression to his bosom and never, ever look for another one as long as he lives.  

Originally Posted By Andromus (2 NOV 2008 2:45am)
The idea of "evoking" or "evocation" comes to mind. But that can be used for anything that brings up memories or feelings in a person, not just scenery in films.


Edit: Just came across the term "Mise en scène", which sounded promising to me. An excerpt from Wikipedia:

"Recently, the term has come to represent a style of conveying the information of a scene primarily through a single shot [ch8211] often accompanied by camera movement.[citation needed] It is to be contrasted with montage-style filmmaking [ch8211] multiple angles pieced together through editing. Overall, mise-en-scène is used when the director wishes to give an impression of the characters or situation without vocally articulating it through the framework of spoken dialogue, and typically does not represent a realistic setting. The common example is that of a cluttered, disorganized apartment being used to reflect the disorganization in a character's life in general, or a spartanly decorated apartment to convey a character with an "empty soul", in both cases specifically and intentionally ignoring any practicality in the setting."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_scene

Originally Posted By Caroline (2 NOV 2008 12:59pm)
We simply don't have Greek expressions in English.

Originally Posted By Terry_Penrod (2 NOV 2008 6:34pm)
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Obviously if your friends say that's the term they use to describe the technique, then "mise-en-scene" is what you were thinking of KamisoriX.

I was simply pointing out that it can refer to a great number of things and more specifically deals with how space, framing, camera movement, etc. is used within a single scene to accomplish whatever the film director wants.

That can of course include setting a mood among other things like panning across a group of faces in close-up to tie their reactions to something together (rather than using individual cuts to each face).

The key here is that it all must occur within a single, continuous scene and probably the most famous ever created for a movie is Orsen Welle's opening for Touch of Evil, which lasts an amazing three minutes and thirty seconds of continuous tracking without a single cut.

The length of the scene really isn't relevant though as that term can apply to almost any scene including short ones.

Cheers, Terry

Originally Posted By Caroline (2 NOV 2008 9:52pm)
Alkis
By all means please give me some Greek everyday expressions.  I don't mean phrases or mottos that we say in English that translate into the same thing in Greek.  I mean the genuine Greek words.  English people litter their everyday speech with French expressions such as tête-à-tête, c'est la vie and various other bons mots and a few Latin ones but I am totally unaware of any Greek expressions.

Not counting food names now, or medical terms, but expressions that are used in their original language like the one KamisoriX has had us searching for.

do you know how the dish breaking thing began?

Originally Posted By Caroline (3 NOV 2008 12:59am)

do you know how the dish breaking thing began?

Because the women said 'we'll cook for the party but you men have to do the washing up'.