Mise-en-Scene

In film, Mise-en-Scene (MeS) is defined as being everything that appears in front of the camera. This applies to costume, props, lighting, composition etc...

MeS is very important for this project because of how there is no dialogue, the story is completely visual. I have had several ideas on how to to use MeS to give some more information about characters and events. Such as having an empty bottle of wine just peeking in at the side of a shot to show the parents alcoholism or having a guitar and keyboard near the son's room to show he has musical interests.

Here we can see how MeS is used in Toy Story to show that Andy (The child who owns all the toys) has grown up a little, and is now interested in things other than his toys such as sports and monster trucks.

Put simply, MeS is that everything that is on camera tells a story. I need to make sure that everything in shot works with the story and nothing is out of place.