Planning: Mise-En-Scene

Mise-En-Scene

This can be discussed over many aspects but our focus is to concentrate on the main ones, of which are:

• Set design
• Lighting
• Space
• Composition
• Costume
• Make up and hairstyles - characters
• Acting

Scene

The setting of a film is more important and significant than the setting of a theatre and is ALMOST ALWAYS more detailed. In the initial stages of making a film the objective would be to find a location which already exists. This location will then be altered to reflect exactly what the filmmaker is trying to portray. A setting can be used for much more than simply telling us where something is happening. It can be used to manipulate the audience into building certain expectations.

A cityscape has a setting of a busy environment where there is a lot of noise as well as an urban scene. It tends to represent a business sort of place where it would be crowded and full of life everywhere you look, but only human life.

The desert would be a completely opposite setting in an empty and deserted environment where there is nothing but sand in a blank extreme longshot sort of scene with maybe props such as a tree to show where the action would be set. The only life would be the animals or the dry plants about but no life signs as it is far from civilisation and so quiet.

Props

Props also have a large impact on the setting as they literally make up the scene, environment and what can be experienced by the audience. This then places an effect on what the audience of what we want them to understand and feel during the scene.

Lighting
There are different types but the main which impact the movie the most are low key and high key lighting. low key allows the camera to capture a dark, hidden and even scary moment whereas high key can allow you to show a happy high emotion occurrence therefore improving the environment making it seem like a happier moment.

Composition 
this terms refers to  the way in which something is put together or arranged, the combination of parts or elements that make up something therefore how it is positioned can relate to the direction in which peoples eyes travel while looking at the media piece and how they feel what they are looking at.

Costume
The costume allows the easy identification of any character in comparison to how, what and when they are acting as well as who. this means that setting a scene can be easy and therefore applicable easily. Costumes also allow direction relations to stereotypes and links. this means that a costume is as important as any scene/set and can sometimes be more important if you cant capture a grasp of who the actor is playing to what they are performing, for a example wouldn't wear pajamas to a wedding and so it is extremely important.