Is The Director's Depiction Of Mise-En-Scene In A Film

What is Mise-en-scene?

In a film Mise-en-scene represents everything on a flat surface enclosed within a frame.

Mise-en-scene in french means what is on the screen or stage.

Mise-en-scene is the first step in understanding how every thing on the screen reflect meaning.

Mise-en-scene can be realistic or non realistic. It’s all up to how the director wants to share his or her version of the story with the audience.

Mise-en-scene is all about giving the audience visual information for them to follow the story on the screen.

Screenwriters write the words that the directors follow to create Mise-en-scene. Show don’t tell is a cinematic rule that screenwriters use when creating the Mise-en-scene for a script. It’s different from when reading a novel. The writer can get in the head of the reader, but Mise-en-scene is the most effective way to show the audience the story on the screen.

In novel, the words can be digested at slower pace.

It comes down to how the director wants to use Mise-en-scene to the story to the audience. The way the director decides to share Mise-en-scene with the audience is subjective or in his or her total control. As an audience, we are willing to give away that control for two hours to experience the story through the director’s eyes.

We give up control because we love stories especially done with moving pictures and sound.

We watch stories on the screen because it helps make sense out of life. Mise-en-scene is the main ingredient that helps us understand expressive art form called film.

The audience is not expected to pick up ever artistic meaning in a film because it move to fast, but if they do it’s an added