THE PPT OF THE MISENSCENE.

1. Sarita
Chander
MISE-EN-SCENE
Mise-en-scene means the arrangement of
actors and the scenery.

2. SETTING
The setting of a movie highly depends on the genre and the location, where it is, when it is and
why its there.
The settings of certain areas either could be natural, made up, stylized or a backdrop could have
been used in the movie.
- The setting which I am going to talk about is the setting from the horror movie called Jeepers
Creepers and I think this setting is great as it goes very well with the theme of the movie Is about,
which is a horror.
As you can see the image below you can see that the house seems quite old and abandoned, the
fact that its on its own and in an area which is very much secluded, by looking at it, it already gives
you an atmosphere which is quite scary and you know that the movie will not turn out very well.
The setting is very important because without it the film wouldn't’t make sense and the genre of the
movie wouldn't’t be clear.
In this image still the setting is out in the exterior as its which seems to be in a sort of forest and
what makes it really scary is the surroundings of the trees, the trees give a huge impact as they
are literally dying away and the plants are dead around the house, the house also has boxed up
windows which shows that no one has been in there or that no one should try and enter the house.
The expectation which this image still creates for the audience is that something bad will happen
as the house seems very scary as well as secluded.

3. PROPS
-Props are used in films to subconsciously manipulate the audience by building certain
expectations.
-A key prop which Is used in the movie Jeepers Creepers is the reoccurring image and
sounds of the crows, in the movie they are very frequent which leads me into thinking that
something is going to happen and that is absolutely correct as bad things do happen in the
movie. Crows also symbolize death and bad luck so this clearly shows you that the
characters will experience death and nothing will go well for them.
-The crows in the movie are always flying around and making noises within the whole of the
movie so this shows the audience bad things are going to happen, the fact that the sounds of
the crows come up in the scenes unexpectedly again gives a scary impact and gives you
shock which created an impact and a jumpy effect.
-The sword in this movie which the villain uses is also a key and beneficial prop because
without that, the villain wouldn't’t be able to kill the characters.
-The car and the truck are both very important props in this movie because without these
the characters wouldn't have any transport, so this again is important because the car
scenes are a big part of the movie. The truck which the villain drives also has a very
distinctive horn noise so this to me shows that the use of the sound is linked in with a use of
a prop.

4. LIGHTING AND COLOUR SOUND
Lighting and colour can be used in many ways. Lighting and
colour is mainly used to highlight the significance in certain
scenes to represent the characters state or emotion.
- Three types of light which is used is key light, fill light and
backlight.
The key light is the main light which is used allover and the fill
light fills in any gaps and the backlight is lit behind so there is no
shadows.
The lighting in this scene is very good and I think it goes very
perfect within the scene the fact that the characters are in the
main frame and in the main focus shows the audience hat they
need to focus on and the fact that everything out is very dark
shows that our attention should be on the characters. The fact
that there is a very shallow light which is above them as well as
around them shows me that there isn't much hope for the two
characters because light represents so because their light is
blocked and literally fading it shows me there is no hope for these
characters.
The light on this image creates a very eerie atmosphere which is
quite intense because its very dark almost black shows that there
isn't going to be anything good at the end of that tunnel. if there
was a lot of light in this image and it was generally quite bright
then the scene would not have the spooky affect and it wouldn't’t
work as well as it does now.
Sound:
The sounds which are used in these
scenes go very well as they are
intense sounds such as screams,
crows, cries and bangs. These sounds
go very well with the theme of this
movie as it’s a horror so to be hearing
these sounds is definitely good. The
fact that the sounds are used in such
a good way gets the audiences
attention and the fact that some of
the sounds come unexpectedly also
give the viewers a shock.

5. COSTUME, HAIR AND MAKE UP
Costume hair and make up is an instant indicator to the audience of where a character is from for example the location
and time their status and even there personality.
A good film which uses an amazing range of costumes as well as make up is the movie GREASE which stars the amazing
actor John Travolta. This movie was was set in the year of 1978 so from that we know that the way they used to dress
then and how they would dress now will be completely different. The costumes and make up are pretty much coordinated
with the settings of the time as it was set in a high school so you had the items such as school uniforms, skirts, shorts,
shirts and jackets which went with the ideas of them being in a high school.
The female characters in the movie Grease normally wore big oversized floral dresses mainly in bright colours such as
yellow and pink. The clothing also had a really vintage and retro look which went very well with the time of the movie as a
lot of lace and net was in fashion as in those days this was the style of dress. The hair and make up which the females
wore also was very exaggerated in terms of colours as it was bright and bold. Lipstick was always red and bright and the
eye makeup was always heavy on the eyeliner as well as eye shadow. The hairstyles were always very big, always in
rollers and quite long in length which was very volumised and that is what gives us that vintage look from back in the
day.
The actors in GREASE also dressed up in a way which was very distinctive as they normally had big hair with a huge front
quiff which was gelled backwards to make it look big this gives us that vintage look so when we see such a hairstyle we
know that its from the past and from a certain era.

6. FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND BODY
LANGUAGE
 Fac ial expres sions provide us wi th c lear indicator s on how the charac ter s are feel ing.
 Body language can also indicate how someone is feel ing as wel l as thei r relat ionship
wi th other charac ter s .
 Fac ial expres sions and body language both por t ray di f ferent meanings .
 The fac ial expres sion of this charac ter is f rom the movie Confes sions of a Shopahol ic
and I think this s t i l l shows expres sion very wel l and the express ion that she is showing
on her face is shock, you can c lear ly tel l this a shocked expres sion as you can see that
her eyes are open very wide as she has seen something which she real ly loves at a pr ice
that she adores.
From this still you can tell from the
characters body language that she
is a very proud and confident
individual as she is walking with
her head held high she also has
very stern look in her face which
shows she is confident and ready
to accomplish whatever comes her
way.

7. POSITIONING AND SPACE
Positioning and space can draw the audiences attention to a character which is
important to the story. Positions of the character can indicate the relationships
between characters or the emotions.
This image still is taken from a Bollywood movie
called Karthik calling Karthik and I think this
shows the use of deep space really well and I
think it has been used in a nice way as you have
the both background detail of the sun and the
foreground detail of the two people who are sitting
their watching the sunset. The space gives the
audience a very good and clear idea of the
location their in swell as the size.
This image is from Jeepers Creepers and I would say this image
shows the use of shallow space very well as it seems like a two
dimensional image because there is very little depth in the image as
a whole and there isn't any distance between the forefront of the
image and what's behind it.

8. POSITIONING AND SPACE…CONTINUED
Frontality – is when the characters are directly talking to the camera,
providing the viewers with the feeling that they are looking directly at them.
A great example of frontality is from the movie called Maniac which stars
Elijah Wood.
The character in this film is talking to the camera as he generally explains
the way he is feeling and he talks about what he is going to do. I think this
is a good way of using camera as it gets your attention very well because it
seems more real.

9. VISUAL EFFECTS
A movie which uses a huge range of visual ef fects is the movie cal led
Avengers. They use many ef fects as some of the characters in the movie
are are computer generated.