The Importance Of Scenery

The scenery in a movie or show is a very important piece of telling your stories. You always want to be using the scenery to help better covey your emotions or foreshadow events. For instance as colors get darker in your background you can assume that something bad is about to happen. As another example in Poe's story "The Fall of The House of Usher" the house represents the character's mind, looking stable except for a crack running down it. The scenery here is representing the character's mind to show that while he looks like he is ok the truth is that he is really having mental problems. It is also important when thinking about your scenery that it compliments your characters. Both in color and business, the scenery should not take attention away from the characters during focal points of action, plot or dialogue.