Mis En Scene efers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement; sets, lighting, props, actors and costumes.
This clip is taken from the film "The Hangover". As soon as the set changes to the bedroom the morning after, the main focus is the mis en scene. The camera pans around the room focusing on all the different props which show the reader the extent of what happened the night before. The audience immediately know that the scene has changed from the night on the roof to the morning after in the hotel room. It starts with the jacuzzi and the blow up doll, with the champagne bottle and glasses everywhere, and props range from chickens, to chairs hung up by bed sheets. These particular props get across to the viewer that it wasnt just a typical night out clubbing, these things are extra strange and crazy and are put there for this reason. There are shots of a burning sofa, a self made bowling alley with champagne bottles as pins, these shots lats for just under a minute, when the camera finally focuses on the first person which is a girl leaving the room. The shot of the girl immediately starts the mystery and starts the viewer thinking and wondering about what went on the night before. The camera finally pans along to one of the main characters lying on the floor with his glasses smashed. From the start of the movie this particular character had been portrayed as the most sensible one and he is purposely the first one the audience set eyes on. As he walks around the apartment, all the props in the background are disturbed in some way, nothing is untouched, this gives the audience a good interpretation of how crazy the night was.
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