All the elements of a shot that create mood, tone, and atmosphere; often contributes to genre or the perspective of a particular director (auteur)
(Adapted from film and stage scenography) 'Staging'. The scenery of radio. Locations, spaces and perspectives for all formats (genres) of radio, but also including style and mode (as realism, non-realism, etc.). For radio drama, this involves representation of the play scene, its composition, 'set dressing' and perspective, and the characters' behaviour and movement in that environment, and style. Film criticism emphasises 'mise en scène' as a director's expressive style.
arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
The costumes, scenery, and other properties of a drama. Herbert Beerbohm Tree was renowned for the elaborate mises en scene of his lavish Shakespearean productions at His Majesty's Theatre between 1897 and 1915.
In television and theatre, dramatic tension and meaning is created through the total picture created at any given moment by the use of: the actorís voice and movement, costume, props, set, and lighting. In television, the use of this in a condensed or heightened way leads to a non-naturalistic feeling, which makes it possible for "contentious" or difficult issues to do with life, death, and sex, to be discussed.
French term from the theatre which literally means 'what's put in the scene'. In the cinema it refers to the elements of a shot - the set, the props, the actors, the use of colour and light - and the way these elements are composed or choreographed.
Everything that is photographed and appears within the frame of the finished film, including sets, lighting, costumes, props, and stars.