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1. Mise-en-scene
What does mise-en-scene mean?
A Element showing everything in the scene. (which is recorded)
What are the 6 key areas of mise-en-scene?
1. Clour
2. Costume
3. Props
4. Set|Location
5. Blocking Performance
6. Lighting
Colour:
How is colour used in the 3 below pictures?
1. Indicated that shes evil “Red”.
2. Black indicates the same as 1 but more in a spooky way.
3. (Reinheit) in a wedding it shows kindness and peace. (Representation of
Disney)
Further colour shows the character of someon, his or her style, the mood and its kind
of a uniform.
Costume:
What can we interpret from these costumes?

2. Mise-en-scene
It forms a cultural code- a form how the audience understand the codes of people
and situations.
They show situations and how there dealt with. (Uniform )
For further look back at Colour.
Costume Interpretation:
1. Shows the Society Class in this case lower class, living on benefit, a bad
education.
2. Shows a higher social standart then 1 and shows Money, Professionalism,
Education and Intelligence.
Props:
Props are Objects within the Frame of a scene.
Used to dress the set or the actors.
Props:
Option 1 - You have to provide props for a tense police interview between two
officers and one suspected murderer. Decide what props you would incorporate and
how the actors should be directed to use them.
Option 2 – You have to provide props for a romantic meal between two characters
on their first date. Decide what props you would incorporate and how the actors
should be directed to use them.
Option1
Props needed:
A Lamp
2 Chair
Taser
Table
Police Badges
Evidence Papers
Guns
Handcuffs
How would actors be directed to use them:
They would threaten the murder with the taser and the bright light.
And obviously they sit on chairs and at a table.
Murder cuffed
Location:
Can be a purpose built set or a real location

3. Mise-en-scene
Blocking/Performance:
 Blocking refers to the positioning and movement of actors within the frame,
both in relation to each other and in relation to the camera (which represents
us, the audience)
 Performance covers all aspects of the actual acting – gesture, expression,
accent etc
Lighting:
How is lighting being used to create mood in the following examples?
Its used in 1 to make it more dramatic change the mood of the audience make it
more dramatic.
Indicates action.
The light always matches the situation of the movie. The mood and the overhowle
situation.
Ambient Lighting=natural light
Low Key Lighting=not so bright light
High Key lighting direct opposite.