Mise-en-Scene

Mise-en-scene

Throughout our learning of media studies we've gain an understanding of mise-en-scene. Mise-en-scene is the overall look and feel of a movie, the sum of everything a movies it. It is the most important in all films and has these components that all goes into creating a movie such as, lightning, composition, designs, kinesis, costumes, settings, etc. Mise-en-scene means literally staging or putting on an action. It's mostly used to help describe the aspects that goes into cinematography and the designs of a film. Mise-en-scene is the a whole when it comes to creating a movie.

Mise-en-scene itself

Mise-en-scene is a French word and it literally means "staging or putting on an action or scene" It affects how we feel and think of the characters in the story. Mise-en-scene allows us the viewer to experience some type of time and place, it contains two major visual components that are design and composition. Let's look at the research I've made based on these to major visual components.

 

-Design: The process by which the setting is determined. Design is the look of the setting, props, lightning, and actors which are the main components of design. Design helps express a movie's vision and create a convincing sense of time, space, and mood. In design there's someone that specifically does it and its called a movie designer.

        *A movie designer is is both an artist and an execute, it is responsible for all designs that has to go into a movie. The are mostly in charge of costumes, makeups, art, hairstyles, clothing's, etc.

-Composition: The organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of actors, and object. It is part of the process of visualizing, and planning the look of a movie. As a filmmaker visualize and plan each shot they must remember these two aspects of compositions, framing, and kinesis.

        *Framing is what we see on the screen.

        * Kinesis is what moves on the screen.

Application

With the information I've learned from mise-en-scene, I was able to create mini photography project for my media studies class. For my mini photography project, I used the components that went into mise-en-scene, for example the props that I used, the lightnings, the shots they were all able to connect through mise-en-scene to create my setting. 

Reflect

After all, I've learn three new things from mise-en-scene, already knew two things fromit  and now left with one question. I've learned that Mise-en-scene is needed in all types of film, that it is the most important in films, and that it contains two major visual components. I knew mise-en-scene was a French word but now, I also knew that it affected how audiences think about characters and the story. Now I'm left with the question, "What is the terms of having a established movie through mise-en-scene?"

Sources

StudioBinder, et al. “Mise-En-Scene and the Directors the Mastered It.” StudioBinder, 1 Feb. 2021, https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/mise-en-scen.

Film Chapter 5 Flashcards | Quizlet. https://quizlet.com/517482895/film-chapter-5-flash-cards/.

Filmdaft.com, https://filmdaft.com/mise-en-scene-explained-an-illustrated-guide/.