Mise-en-scene

 

Miss-en-scene

 

Mise-en-scene – place on stage is a major component within film production and it can literally be the difference in being the best film ever and the worse.

When film producing you have to get the  audience into the world your creating, so if your creating a film that set in a different era you have to assert that into the setting and props, makeup and costume, facial expressions and body language, lighting and colour and position of characters and objects in the frame. These are the five elements that make up mise-en-scene

Settings and props can indicate what genre a film is or a  period with iconography as the audience recognizes certain things, such as science fiction films are set in space with props such a buttons of space crafts. Rom coms are usually set in restraints or homes and contain props like flowers and wine. Horror films are set in creepy abandoned house or isolated woods and props like knives and chains are used.  In war film the audience can price that genre together with the iconic settings of trenches or dilapidated, war town towns and props like guns, horses used bullets and bombs are used. Similarly to war films a western film used guns and horse as props but the settings are usually deserts or a town tavern.

 

Costume hair and makeup can signify characters, it can also set the scene genre and period.

·         Sci-fi films feature weird and unusual costumes maybe sometimes portraying a characters actual skin.

·         In Rom coms characters wear normal but “dressed up” costumes to show elegance and effort to impress others female characters hair are normally down so that their hair shows how they have made an effort to look that way. Male character are normally in suits and their hair styled so that they look put together.

·         In horror films costumes consist of clown costumes or long discolored white dresses for supernatural type films. Gore horrors and slashers characters are filmed to be in blood clothing and maybe masks to show anonymity.

·         I’m war films costumes such a uniforms are used to create the scene characters hair sometimes shaved to stop in getting  it their faces when they are “fighting” .

·         In western films we see the iconic cowboy hat with the gun belt, chaps and boots.

 

Facial expressions and body language is another component of mise-en-scene, this is a clear indication of characters feelings or relationships with other characters. For example this scene in save haven shows the character to be happy and smiling at the girl.

 

 

Lasso Hallström 2013 safe haven

 

 

In this scene in peaky blinders is shows the character Thomas Shelby to be angry and so upset.

 

 

David Caffrey + Tim Mielants 2013 Peaky Blinders

 

In the vampire diaries this character Bonnie is in extreme pain.

 

2009 The Vampire Diaries

 

 

Positioning within the frame indicates real stop ships between character so for an example in Allen Cutlets 2010 remember me when the two character are framed close to each other showing that they are in love .

 

 Also in John Fords 1956 The searchers he position in the frame shows isolation and power

 

 

 

 

 

In person Reece’s 2006 The Break it shows a couple who are clearly in a mood with one and other and are having problems.

 

 

Lighting and colour is also another major component in mise -en-scene it’s is used to highlight important character object or just even to portray the mood of a scene.

Red can be used to show love, passion, anger, violence and power.

Pink can be used to suggest innocence, sweetness, femininity and Beauty

Orange can suggest warmth and friendliness, happiness and youth whereas blue can represent coldness isolation or calmness.

Purple can be used to show mystery, eroticism and fantasy.