Blade-runner uses Mise En Scene specifically with the set and costume design throughout the film. In the first scene the main think you focus on is the grit and grime of the world. The future in the film, shows us how everything is overpopulated and dirty. The neon lights and smoke is occasionally shown throughout with lights being casted through the smoke as if to expose to the audience the feeling of suffocation and isolation. Everything looks wet and uncomfortable, people wear clothing with dull colours that seem worn and nothing looks very new. That is the setup for this world.

The next thing brought to the audience’s attention is the futuristic technology which has clearly advanced from now which includes replicants, flying cars, cloned animals and androids with limited life span made to do the humans’ work.

The plot of the story revolves around replicants that have hijacked a spaceship and need to be destroyed. Throughout the movie we see animals that have been cloned and have certain characteristics that differ from real animals such as an owl with an eerie glow in its eyes. We also see a flying police car roaming around the town in the air.

A technique used to create an eeriness to the movie and lighting is the amount of smoke used throughout the film. Most of the characters smoke cigarettes and there is smoke or fog is nearly every scene. The smoke is a form of mise en scene as it helps to establish how this new world is because smoke can signify something that needs to be cleaned or purified, therefore it creates a sense that the futuristic world is dirtier than how it is now.