Mise En Scene – the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play. One of main cinematography columns.
Mise en scène encompasses the most recognizable attributes of a film – the setting and the actors; it includes costumes and make-up, props, and all the other natural and artificial details that characterize the spaces filmed. The term is borrowed from a French theatrical expression, meaning roughly “put into the scene”. In other words, mise-en-scène describes the stuff in the frame and the way it is shown and arranged. We have organized this page according to four general areas: setting, lighting, costumes and staging. At the end, we have also included some special effects that are closely related to mise-en-scène.
Examples of well-planned mise-en-scenes in movies here.
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