Mise-en-scène (French: [miz.ɑ̃.sɛn]; "placing on stage")It is commonly used to refer to single scenes within the film,to represent the film. is an expression used to describe the design aspect of a theatre or film production, which essentially means "visual theme" or "telling a story"—both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography and stage design, and in poetically artful ways through direction. . Mise-en-scène has been called film criticism's "grand undefined term".