Mise-En-Scene

Mise-En-Scene

Mise-En-Scene is a french term meaning what is seen or put into a frame. It’s the visual information seen for example, the props.

Mise-En-Scene is made up of 5 elements. These are:

C-ostume

L-ighting

A- ctors/facial expressions/body language

M-ake-up

P-rops

S-etting

Costume:

Costumes allow the audience to see what type of person the character is. It also lets us see what time of year the video is in. For example if a woman was wearing a short casual dress, you would be able to tell that the video is set in the 70’s.

Lighting:

Lighting allows the audience to see the important characters within the frame. It also allows us to see the characters facial expressions and hidden emotions when a shadow is used on their face.

Actors/Facial expressions/Body language:

Facial expressions allow the audiences to see how the character is feeling. For example, if the character is crying we can immediately tell that he/she is upset. Similarly, Body language can allow us to see the characters emotions too.

Make-up:

Make-up tells us what the characters personality status and job is. For example, if the character was wearing white powder and red lipstick you can tell the characters job is a clown.

Props:

Props help us know what type of genre the film/video is. It also tells us the characters job just the way make-up does too. For example, a character holding a light saver. The genre of the film would be sci-fi.

Setting:

Settings can manipulate an audience by building certain expectations and then taking a completely different turn.

Types of lighting:

1.      Low key lighting

2.      High key lighting

Low key lighting:

This is created by using back lights, which creates sharp contrasts of light and dark areas. An example is Horror films.

High key lighting:

This is created by using more filler lights. The lighting is natural and is realistic to our eyes. It produces bright lights like on sunny days.

Task

Image 1:

Image 1 shows us two characters who are expressing their love for one another. Its shows the female and male characters kissing each other. The fact that the male is dressed in a costume suggests he's the hero who has just saved the female characters life.

Image 2:

Image 2 shows us a male character looking straight into the camera with a serious and cunning  facial expression. It makes the audience think that he either wants to take revenge back on someone or murder someone. Furthermore, the character looks quite irritated and annoyed; like he would lash out on anyone who gets in his way, which suggests something horrific happened in his past.