Mise-en-scene

These are some notes on mise-en-scene.

1. A director might use historical locations to establish where you are in the time period that the show/film is set.
2. They will use locations to show the audience where the show/film takes place and so that the audience understand the social status such as a coucil estate would suggest one type of social class.
3. Common Place props are often used for authenticity.
4. Noteworthy props are props that are key to the narrative of the story.
5. Costumes are used to understand the character, there social status and the time period.
6. Stars and Actors get the audience to expect the film to be good beacuse it has a big star and a lot of the time stars can sell a film.
7. Unknow character actors are effective for making the audience think that the film will be faithfull to the text and directors cast them not beacuse they are stars but becacuse they fit the character that they are going to play.
8. Lighting is a key factor in films and low key lighting is used to read the text as being somber and moody.
9. apart from low key lighting there is high key lighting which is used to allow the audience to see the action clearly and to read the text as if it were natural light.
10. Colours are used to read the drimatic mood of the scene with colours and signifiers.