A Corner in Wheat (1909)

A Corner in Wheat (D.W. Griffith, 1909)

Mise-en-scene is the term for the totality of what goes into a cinematic image.
It can be elusive of subtle, forthright or obvious, but it exists and is the essence of cinematic expression.


Characters in space.

While cinema is movement, it can be defined by motionlessness in the same way 

music can be defined by pauses or silence.