MISEENSCENE By Sara Dean Lighting The lighting in

MISE-EN-SCENE By Sara Dean

Lighting The lighting in this picture brings out the texture in the clothing and it is creating negative space behind the man and it draws your eye towards the woman, although the main focus is the man. The negative space is what directs you to the woman in the corner.

Location The location is one of the main aspects of Mise-en -Scene. Most of the time it is what makes the shot work and make sense. If the person is filming a documentary in a specific area, then they would need to film in that area because otherwise it isn’t the documentary intended. The location may also have to be cordoned off for the person to film the documentary.

Costumes This is another important aspect of the Mise-en. Scene because the person needs to be wearing clothes for a start. It can set a stereotype of the person, for example when filming somebody that is differently dressed to what they are seen most in, people may not remember them and just walk past them if they actually knew them.

Props are sometimes what make the movie make sense in the certain scenes. In this then bottles and the books suggest that this house is used for something out of the norm, as if a science experiment will take place.

Frame Everything within the frame is important, it shows you what the film is about and shows the importance of the shot. It is was framed differently, the whole shot itself would be different as well and the new things will be the objects of importance. If this shot was framed differently and only focused on the woman, the man behind would be out of the frame and out of the importance of the shot.

Make-Up The make-up of a film creates the character and also creates a stereotype but at the same time it tries to direct away from stereotypes. In this shot the man has really light makeup on his face but around the crevices of his face there is darker and it suggests that they aren’t sleeping. The whole of the make-up on this character creates his craziness to a higher level.

Camera Angles As well as the framing the camera angles also make the shot show you what it is about. Examples of angles are; Straight Angle, Bird’s Eye View, Worm’s Eye View etc.

Character Movement The camera will move around the characters if they are talking, the shot would only have them in it and how they are moving within the shot, if they are still then the shot will be too, but if they are moving the camera would move with them.