Mise-en-scene

Hey it's Xena!

A couple days ago I learned about mise-en-scene. Mise-en-scene is the overall look and feel of a movie; the sum of everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences while viewing it. 

Mise-en-scene is a word originated from France which means "staging or putting on an action or scene." Mise-en-scene has two major visual components which are design and composition. Design means the look of the setting, props, lighting, and actors. Composition means the organization, distribution, balance, and the general relationship of actors and objects. Mise-en-scene is important for how it makes us feel. When planning a shot many decisions must be made, such as, the placement of people, objects, décor, their movement, lighting, camera angles, and camera movements.

 After learning about mise-en-scene we were given a mini photography project. In this project you had to make a scene and take multiple shots at different angles. The photos that you took had to look realistic. For example, someone had different pieces of Barbie furniture and they made it look like a living room, in the background they had a beautiful beach scenery. 

Before learning about mise-en-scene I didn't know a single thing about it. Some questions I had before learning about this topic was, "How do you pronounce this word?" "How am I supposed to remember all of this information?" "How important is mise-en-scene to a movie?" But as I learned more about the topic I learned how to pronounce it and I learned how important it is to have mise-en-scene in a movie. 
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