Mise-En-Scene

Mise-en-scene is a term used to describe the design aspects of a film or theatre production. It is a French term meaning "What is put into a scene of frame." Mise-en-scene inclucdes lighting, colour, costume, make-up, settings and props, facial expressions and positioning of characters in the shot.

Lighting and Colour is the use of lighting in the scene. For example in our thriller film we will mostly be using natural lighting in all the scenes, but there will be some dim lighting for when other charcters introduce themselves. Colour is used to represent emotions but can also prepresent feelings, for example in romantic movies they will use colours like pink and red because they mostly reflect love  and passion as that is what they want to project to the audience.

Settings and Props is the use of setting in the film where it can help relate to the genre of the film and also how props helps the audience guess what type of genre it is. For example in thrillers the settings will most likely be unknown places or typically a abandoned house or any scary setting in general. The props help where it could for example be guns and bombs, which can help the audience know that the film is going to be an action film.

Facial Expressions where by looking at the expressions of any characters in the film can help the audience know what type of film it will be. For example if the characters are oftenly smiling or have a happy facial expression, if could help the audience know it could be a comedy film as other films like horror or thriller will rarely have quite a lot of laughter and smiling.

Positioning of characters help the audience know who could be some antagonists or how could be protagonists, for example protagonists will usually be in the middle of the shot or in the middle or the scene as they are the most important charcters of the scene.