Mise-en-Scene.

Mise-en-Scene.

Mise-en-Scene is an expression used to describe the design aspects of a theatre or film production, which essentially means 'visual theme' or 'telling a story'. When applied to the cinema, mise-en-scene refers to everything that appears infront of the camera and the way it is arranged, this inclued sets, props, actors, costumes, lighting and sound. The various elements of design help express a films vision by generating a sense of time and space, as well as setting a mood, and sometimes suggesting a characters state of mind. Mise-en-scene  also included the composition which consists of the positioning and movement of actors, as well as objects in the shot. Mise-en-scene can change the way you look at a certain scene once you look into it in depth, objects may have a big effect of a characters personality or what you can gather from a scene, like the effects of certain lighting and sound. An example of this is in 'We Need to Talk to Kevin' where you have to watch the whole film to understand why some of the mise-en-scene is in certain lighting, why the director decideds to use certain colours and props, all these things come to play when you want to talk about the mise-en-scene.