Film set
A film set is the landscape, architectural or interior design background of scenes or entire films, for example in the form of a scene image . In outdoor shots - for example in front of an Alpine panorama or in front of the castles on the Loire - the "landscape is elevated to a backdrop, it is transformed into a theatrical space". Likewise, the interior of buildings can become a film set.
Film sets can be set up outside, i.e. on the outdoor areas of film studios or in combination and to expand real locations, as well as inside, i.e. as structures in studio halls - the so-called studios . The latter offers various advantages, such as independent and focused filming without disturbing bystanders, environmental noises and weather influences.
In the early days of film, the film set referred to a painted background based on the theater, where the word " backdrop " (French: coulisse ) originally referred to the painted sliding wall. Even when built film sets prevailed, films were repeatedly made in front of backdrop paintings, such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) or later partly Barry Lyndon (1975). In addition, backdrops serve to create grotesque alienation, undermine the realism of the cinematic image or transform the play onto a theatrical level, for example in Perceval le Gallois (1978) by Éric Rohmer or Fellini's Ship of Dreams (1983).
