MISE EN SCENE

Mise-en-scene is a vital part for our opening sequence as it translates a further insight to our narrative. This is a good feature of the film we need to invest our consideration and thought into as it can induce some depth to our final piece. But what exactly is Mise-en-scene?:

Mise-en-scene is a term used in film to describe everything that you can hear and see on the screen at any time when watching a film.  The director’s choices of:

·     lighting;

·     scenery and setting;

·     costumes;

·     props;

·     camera shots and camera angles;

·     body-language of actors;

·     sound effects;

·     music,

All help to create a particular atmosphere appropriate for the plot.  The director uses mise-en-scene to help enhance the audience’s understanding of a film and his/her decisions about what should and should not be seen on the screen will affect the overall tone of the piece. 

Basically, mise-en-scene is the director’s tool to stage events, giving him/her the opportunity to make the ultimate decisions about what the audience sees and hears in the movie.  It is the director’s way of adding detail to a film outside of the words an actor delivers in a script and is the equivalent of an author’s use of description in narrative to describe scenes and surroundings in depth.