Mise-en-Scene 04/05/17
A french term meaning what is put into a scene or frame.
Visual information in front of the camera.
Communicates essential information to the audience.
It is made up of 5 elements:
- Setting and props
- Costumes, hair and makeup
- Facial expressions and body language
- Lighting and colour
- Positioning of characters and/or objects within the frame
-Setting and props
Setting and Locations play an important part in making the film and are not just 'backgrounds'.
Sets are built either from scratch or a great deal of time is spent to find a setting that already exists.
Settings can manipulate an audience by building certain expectations and then taking a different turn.
- Sci-Fi - Spaceship, space/planet, laboratory, advanced weaponry, hi-tech technology, aliens, robots
- Romantic - Restaurant, bedroom, doorway, flowers, car, town/city, house
- Horror - TV, haunted house, forest, blood, darkness, children, isolated location, sharp objects, weapons.
-Costume, hair and makeup
Costume hair and makeup act as an instant indicator to us of a characters personality, status and job.
It can tell us whether the film is set in the present and what society or culture it will centre around.
Certain customers will signify characters roles.
- High status, clever, well off, serious.
- Lawyer, office worker, business man, detective, teacher.
-Facial expressions and body language
Facial expressions provide a clear indicator of how someone is feeling.
If someone is smiling broadly, we assume they're happy, but we might get a different idea if it is accompanied with scary music and a knife.
- Confident, cocky, idiotic, thinks he's no1, arrogant.
-Positioning of characters/objects within the frame
Positioning within a frame can draw attention to an important character/object/
A film maker can use positioning to indicate relationships between people.
-Lighting and colour
This can be used to highlight a character or object.
It can make characters look mysterious by shading sections of their face or body.
To reflect a characters mental state or emotions.
Types of lighting:
- Low key lighting - deep distinctive shadows
- High key lighting - brightly lit sets or a sunny day
The location looks like a remote/abandoned beach or island that. The huge boat makes it look like it was quite historic. It looks like a pirate ship is about to leave so it could have been pirates that raided the island/area and are now leaving again.
The location of this film looks like its in a town or city at night because the lighting is dark. They also have props like a baseball bat. The scene looks like they've just blown something up or destroyed something because there is rubble and smoke around them. Their positioning is in a line but quite spaced out between some people.
The characters in this film look very intimidating because of the costumes they are wearing, most of it looks like uniform to fight in and there is lots of black leather. Their hair also makes the characters stand out, most pf the characters hair is black and some have hair falling over their face to make them look scarier. The makeup also plays a big role to make some look like they have wounds, scars or veins. Some people are looking very serious and some people are doing an evil smile suggesting they are up to no good.
- Sci-Fi - Spaceship, space/planet, laboratory, advanced weaponry, hi-tech technology, aliens, robots
- Romantic - Restaurant, bedroom, doorway, flowers, car, town/city, house
- Horror - TV, haunted house, forest, blood, darkness, children, isolated location, sharp objects, weapons.
-Costume, hair and makeup
Costume hair and makeup act as an instant indicator to us of a characters personality, status and job.
It can tell us whether the film is set in the present and what society or culture it will centre around.
Certain customers will signify characters roles.
- High status, clever, well off, serious.
- Lawyer, office worker, business man, detective, teacher.
-Facial expressions and body language
Facial expressions provide a clear indicator of how someone is feeling.
If someone is smiling broadly, we assume they're happy, but we might get a different idea if it is accompanied with scary music and a knife.
- Confident, cocky, idiotic, thinks he's no1, arrogant.
-Positioning of characters/objects within the frame
Positioning within a frame can draw attention to an important character/object/
A film maker can use positioning to indicate relationships between people.
-Lighting and colour
This can be used to highlight a character or object.
It can make characters look mysterious by shading sections of their face or body.
To reflect a characters mental state or emotions.
Types of lighting:
- Low key lighting - deep distinctive shadows
- High key lighting - brightly lit sets or a sunny day
The location looks like a remote/abandoned beach or island that. The huge boat makes it look like it was quite historic. It looks like a pirate ship is about to leave so it could have been pirates that raided the island/area and are now leaving again.
The location of this film looks like its in a town or city at night because the lighting is dark. They also have props like a baseball bat. The scene looks like they've just blown something up or destroyed something because there is rubble and smoke around them. Their positioning is in a line but quite spaced out between some people.
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