What is Film Aesthetic?

Aesthetic deals with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, and the creation and appreciation of beauty. Film combines many diverse disciplines, each of which may have their own rules of aesthetics. The aesthetics of films are closely related to still photography, but the movement of the subject, or the camera and the intensities, colours, and placement of the lighting are highly important.

The beauty of a film lies in its representation by the Camera, lighting and Mise en Scene. A scene from the Bollywood film "Ram Teri Ganga Maili" where the actress breast fed her child is a perfect example of aesthetic in film, portraying a motherly care for the child. This scene was beautifully represented by the camera shot, the angle and the lighting.

 Film aesthetic depends on the following factors:

- Cinematography

The shots, the angles, lighting and colour. 

- Mise en Scene (to put in the scene)

How the visual materials are photographed, staged, and framed

- Dominant

What is our eye attracted to?

- Lighting Styles and Key

High-key, low-key, painterly, linear?

- Shot and Camera Proxemics

What type of shot? How far away? Shot Angles. High, low, neutral.

- Colour values

What is dominant colour? Colour symbolism?

- Lens/filter/stock

How do these distort or comment on photography?

- Subsidiary contrasts

What are the eye-stops after the dominant?

- Density

How much visual information is packed into the image? Is texture stark, moderate, or highly detailed?

- Composition

 How is the 2-D space segmented and organized? What is the underlying design? 

- Form

Open or closed? Does the image suggest a window that arbitrarily isolates a fragment of the scene? Or is it self contained?

-  Framing

Tight or loose? How much room do the characters have to move around? 

- Depth

On how many planes is the image composed? Does the background and foreground comment on the midground? 

- Character placement

What parts of the framed space are occupied?

- Staging positions

Which way to they look vis-à-vis the camera 

- Character proxemics

How much space between characters? 

(Source: Internet)