What is mise en scene?

By So Young Oh

Mise-en-scène (French: [miz.ɑ̃.sɛn]; “placing on stage”) is the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production,^[1] both in visual arts through storyboarding, visual theme, and cinematography, and in narrative storytelling through direction. The term is also commonly used to refer to single scenes that are representative of a film. Mise-en-scène has been called film criticism‘s “grand undefined term”. This video clearly tell what is mise en scene start by saying definition, and explaining with films and directors.