Mise-en-scene refers to everything that appears within the frame of a shot, including props, lighting, costumes, locations, and actors. It helps audiences understand the genre of a film and characteristics of the characters. Details of mise-en-scene can reveal the main character and context of the scene. For example, in the opening titles of "Vantage Point", signs saying "USA" with a red line indicate it is set in the USA and Spain, while a sniper rifle being loaded and dim lighting create suspense and suggest it is a thriller or action film.

1. Mise-en-scene
By David Spratt

2. What is Mise-en-scene?
• Mise-en-scene is everything that is on the screen/scene.
• It is all to do with the props, lighting, costume, location,
décor and actors.
• Using mise-en-scene helps people understand what type
of genre the film and or program is and helps us as an
audience understand what kind of people the characters
are what help us understand the scene.
• It can be used to show who is the main character, what
they are like and why they are wearing what they are
wearing.

3. Media work

4. Write up of notes
• From looking at our notes from the opening title of vantage point I can tell
that it involves USA. I can tell this because it is shown in the décor/props
where people are holding signs that say USA with a red line going though.
Everyone in the film seems to be protesting but there is also men in suits and
blacked out company cars which shows importance.
• By looking at the props we see someone loading a sniper rifle which shows the
film has a tense theme to it and shows that the film is either going to be a
thriller and or an action film. This gives us as an audience a question on what
genre it falls into.
• We can tell its set in Spain because of the location and from putting that and
the USA signs it shows that it involves both USA and Spain. The lighting is dim
and dark at times which creates suspense for the film/opening titles.
• We can see that there is a lot of police and protesters which indicates that
something with the president is happening, what also backs this up is the
mass amount of people and the formally dressed men and blacked out cars.
This all links to an important occasion.