Mise en Scene-Setting

How would you decorate a room and what would you put in it to suggest the following inhabitants?...

1) A poor and destitute couple in the 17th century

I would make the room quite dark and empty, there wouldn't be a lot of furniture, maybe just one old dusty sofa with a dirty possible slightly rotting wooden table in one corner. The walls would be stained and the walls peeling and cracking, the corners and ceiling would be covered with cobwebs. There would be one window that is cracked and there would be no curtains.

 

2)Middle class couple in the 1940s

There would be some furniture, a sofa, a table and an armchair all fairly well kept and clean. There would be curtains on the windows and everything the room would be quite nicely decorated, the walls would have a few photos on them.

 

3)Spy in year 2015

The room would be fairly bare but very modern,there would be a metal desk with maybe a few files on it and an array of different gadgets. the desk would have draws that contain false bottoms to hide things like guns.

 

4)Businessman in 2015

The room would contain a metal desk in the middle that would have a laptop, a phone and many papers and folders. There would be a filing cabinet in one corner and a small plant on top, beside the desk there would be a small paper bin. The whole colour of the room and its contents would be grey and silver and black.

 

5)Business woman in 2015

The same layout as the businessman's room but there would be more plants around the room for decoration and the desk would have a few little bits like lipstick on it and maybe there would be a few pairs of heels in the corner.

 

6)Group of students

The room would have a TV in it with an Xbox underneath and a large sofa directly in front of the TV in the middle of the room, the sofa would be fairly worn down. There would be massive speakers on one side of the room and the walls would have multiple film and music posters. The floor would have empty packets of food and beer cans scattered around it.