Cinematography with Midjourney, Part 2: Mis-En-Scène & Lighting (AI Image Generation)

Creating Cinematic AI Images with Midjourney

This is the second part of a three-part series on cinematic prompts. In this post we will cover the following:

• Adding descriptions for the set design
• Adding descriptions for the set design with negative prompting
• Adding descriptions for lighting
• Adding descriptions for lighting with negative prompting

If you missed the first part of this series, you can read it here: Cinematography with Midjourney, Part 1: Anatomy Of A Cinematic Prompt

Introduction To Mise-En-Scène

“Mise-en-scène” (from French for “to put in the scene”) refers to the arrangement of visual elements within a shot, such as the set design, the props used, the lighting, and the positioning of the characters. The thing people are actually talking about when referring to the “style” of a director.

Adding descriptions for the set design

Since we are using the prefix “film still” to let Midjourney render images in the context of filmmaking, we can simply add general descriptions for the mise-en-scène to the style description.

Remember, in part one of this series we defined our basic prompt anatomy like this