Mise En Scene

Mise En Scene

"Mise-en-scène (French pronunciation: [mizɑ̃sɛn] "placing on stage") is an expression used to describe the design aspects of a theatre or film production, which essentially means "visual theme" or "telling a story"—both in visually artful waysthrough storyboarding, cinematography and stage design, and in poetically artful ways through direction. Mise-en-scène has been called film criticism's "grand undefined term."^[1]

When applied to the cinema, mise-en-scène refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement—composition, sets, props, actors, costumes, and lighting.^[2] Mise-en-scène also includes the positioning and movement of actors on the set, which is called blocking. These are all the areas overseen by the director, and thus, in French film credits, the director's title is metteur en scène, "placer on scene."" (Wikipedia) 

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Luis (2010) Niles Atallah, Cristóbal León and Joaquin Cocinaín

I really liked this animation it made me feel like the room was telling a story. The way the room starts all messed up and by the end is back to normal it makes me think that the film is starting from the end to explain the beginning. The lighting is a big factor towards the animation as it controls the element of how creepy and eerie the animation is especially when the tree's grow on the wall the lighting controls the shape and form of the trees and how they are growing. I would agree the lights create a claustrophobic space in a way you cant escape from throughout the film until the very end when everything is ordered again. the light changes at the end when the room is back to normal it gave the effect of how the room always looks but it has a secret and the light makes the finally tidy room look natural as if it has always been like that. I don't think it matters that the film was created in an interior space because I think as long as its giving the effect it wants to it doesn't matter. Overall the animation personally creeps me out but I like how it has that effect on me because it can be quite hard to really create that eerie feel to a film especially in animation when there is no real life.