mise en scene

NOTES

Mis-en-scene is a French phrase which means what is put into a scene or frame. There are five elements of mise-en-scene; settings &pros , costume, hair & make-up, facial expression and body language, lighting and colour and positioning of characters/objects within the frame. Settings can trick an audience in by building certain expectations and then taking different turn. Costume and hair and make up is an instant indication of the characters personality. It tells us when the scene is set, the culture and what sort of individual is being used. Facial expressions suggests how someone is feeling. Body language also conveys the way someone is feeling towards another person but also their relationship between the two.
Image one portrays the emotion of love and lust as the two characters are kissing whilst having the typical rain setting in the background.
Image two is conveying the feeling of anger as the character is glaring with menacing eyes.
Position within a frame indicates the importance to an object or character. Also it reveals the relationship between characters.
Image one suggests that the two characters are at conflict or are having problems as they are positioned far away each other.
Image two reveals that the film is going to be a action genre film due to the two characters holding their gun in action position.
Lighting and colour is used to highlight a character or object within the frame or to make things look mysterious by making it look dark. For example low key lighting is used for horror films where they only use the back lights. Or high key light is used for an indication of a sunny day.

ANALYSING POSTERS

Slide 18: The low key lighting in this frame indicates that it is made in such a way so the scene can look mysterious.This gives the mood of sad and depressing but also it builds up tension hence why it suggest that it could be a horror film or clip. The setting of people being behind bars with candles as lights gives the impression of the olden days perhaps linking back to when punishment was more cruel.
Slide 19: In this frame, there people dressed in an pirate costume which gives off the adventure genre as pirates are always up to adventures and going around the sea. The props used give evidence of a big fight about to occur as their are swords being lifted high up in a ready fighting position.
Slide 20: The people in this frame are in pirate uniform which insists that they are pirates. The costumes are quite linked with olden times which gives a clear suggestion of the time the film was set in. The facial expressions on the characters show that something that the other person was bizarre or has shocked them in away that they are looking at him with a sort of disgusted look.