Single Frames

Mise en scene within Documentary Interviews

Mise en scene is the frame and camerawork also constitute the mise-en-scène of a documentary.
Mise en scene is made up of 6 different elements...

• Costume
• Lighting & Colour
• Acting or Facial Expression
• Make-up and Hair
• Props
• Setting and Position of Person in frame

We have planned our documentary out and the interviews we will be using;-

Interview with Holly- we are interviewing Holly, aged 17, as she has a celebrity role model - Sarah Jessica Parker.

• Costume - For this interview Holly will be wearing nice posh clothes and heels (just how she usually dresses).
• Lighting and Colour - For this interview we want to use the natural light as the room has large windows to let enough natural light in to make Holly's face clear enough to see.
• Acting or Facial Expression and Body Language - As we don't want the interviews to be staged or acted we need Holly to act just as she would in everyday life.
• Make-up and Hair - We will just let Holly dress how she would normally and do her hair and make-up how she usually does it.
• Props - The only main prop we will use will be a large fancy couch of which Holly will be sat on, other than that there are no other props.
• Setting and Position of Person in frame - We will have Holly in a large room within her own house, this room has large windows for good light and all has the same contrasting colours of greys and silvers, we will position Holly using rule of thirds but viewing her whole body sat on the couch.

Interview with Chris - we are interviewing Chris, aged 18, as he is obsessed with Rihanna and talks about her as his celebrity role model.

• Costume - For this interview we have just asked Chris to wear what he would normally wear.
• Lighting and Colour - This interview is going to be filmed in the blue screen room as in the editing process we will use this to our advantage in putting pictures of Rihanna and other knids of Rihanna-related footage to place behind Chris.
• Acting or Facial Expression and Body Language - The interview will not be staged or acted so we will just have Chris act the way he normally does.
• Make-up and Hair - We will let Chris just dress the way he normally does as the interview is not acted or staged.
• Props - We will not use props within this interview as we do not want anything else in the frame and in the way of the blue screen other than Chris.
• Setting and Position of Person in frame - We will have a medium shot of Chris from his waist up but also using rule of thirds so he will be on the right hand side of the frame.

Interview with Vivi - we are interviewing Vivi, aged 12, as she has a celebrity role model - Rihanna.

• Costume - For this interview we have asked Vivi to wear what she normally would.
• Lighting and Colour - For this interview we will use a main light as the interview will be set in her bedroom where there isn't much natural light.
• Acting or Facial Expression and Body Language - We have asked Vivi to just act as she normally would.
• Make-up and Hair - We have asked Vivi to have her make-up and hair as she normally would.
• Props - For Vivi's interview we will only use the posters she has in her room which would normally be there but we will class this as props.
• Setting and Position of Person in frame - We will have Vivi in her bedroom as she has all of her Beyonce pictures and posters up in her bedroom. 

Interview with Jen - we are interviewing Jen as she is a concerned parent regarding bad celebrity role models.

• Costume - For this interview we have asked Jen to wear what she normally would.
• Lighting and Colour - We filmed Jen's interview in a room with large windows that lets in lots of natural light and therefore didnt need to use any other light.
• Acting or Facial Expression and Body Language - We asked Jen to behave and express her views how she normally would.
• Make-up and Hair - We asked Jen to do her hair and make-up how she normally would.
• Props - We didnt use any props for this interview as we didnt think we would need any and it would be more ideal to just focus on what Jen was saying.
• Setting and Position of Person in frame - For Jen's interview we decided not to use a blue screen room as we were unsure as to what to put as the background as she talks about various bad role models, and two of our interviewee's already have been filmed in the blue screen room and therefore we thought it would be too much. So we filmed Jen's interview in a room with large windows for natural lighting. We have also decided to have Jen looking across the camera from the right of the frame, using rule of thirds.

Interview with Gemma (psychologist) - We are interviewing Gemma for a professional view on celebrity role models today, so we could get a psychological perspective on the subject.

• Costume - We asked Gemma to wear what she normally would wear, which is smart and formal clothing as she is a psychologist.
• Lighting and Colour - We filmed Gemma's interview in the blue screen room so we used a high lamp shining down on Gemma from afar so we would see her clearly as there is no natural light.
• Acting or Facial Expression and Body Language - We asked Gemma to speak and express her views as she normally would when explaining to anybody.
• Make-up and Hair - We asked Gemma to keep her hair and make-up as she would any other day.
• Props - we have used no props for Gemma's interview as we filmed in front of a blue screen and therefore didnt need any props, this is so there is nothing standing out from the background apart from Gemma. We also decided to have Gemma looking across the camera from the right of the frame, using rule of thirds.
• Setting and Position of Person in frame - For Gemmas