All of the elements placed in front of the camera to be photographed: the settings and props, lighting, costumes and make-up, and figure behavior
This term refers to the way a shot is visually staged for the camera It literally translates as "what's put into the scene," and to describe a shot or a scene's mise-en-scene is to describe all the elements that go into composing its "look" (those things for which the production designer is responsible, but also the director and even the director of photography) We might think of it as all those elements of a scene that a film would share with a stage version of the same thing, or all those elements of a shot that a film would share with a painting of the same thing Often, a mise-en-scene approach to filmmaking is contrasted with a montage approach: that is, some filmmakers favor creating meaning through building it up over the course of an unbroken shot, while some filmmakers favor creating meaning through the juxtaposition or cutting together of shots Of course, all films can't help but do both
The putting on stage" of a play, including the setting, scenery, direction, and acting (blocking)