Mise-en-scene is one of the 4 micro elements which can be used to analyze/read film.

Mise-En-Scene is the stage design and arrangement of actors, props and costume designs in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in visual arts through storyboarding, visual theme, and cinematography, and in narrative storytelling through direction. It can be used to convey messages about characters and/or places are/behave without dialogue/monologue mentioning it.

(some information sourced from Wikipedia)