Features of Mise En Scene

Mise En Scene

Mise en scene is a French term meaning what is in the scene. It is information in front of the camera for the audience.

Its made up of five elements...

• Setting and props
• Costume, hair and makeup
• Facial expressions and body language
• Lighting and colour
• Positioning of characters and objects

Camera

The filming is made up of three elements...

• Frame
• Angle
• Movement

Editing

You edit by using these four things...

• Transition
• Order of Narrative
• Pace
• SFX 

Sound

Sound in films fall in these three category's...

• Dialogue - what the characters are saying and how they say it
• Music - it can either be parallel (goes with the mood of the scene) or centripetal (goes against the mood of he scene)
• Diegetic / non diegetic sound - diegetic = normal background noise, non diegetic = added on when editing