Mise-en-scene (everything in the frame).

1. Costume - choose carefully the style of hair, make-up and costume of all the subjects in the photograph.
2. Location - consider what image, mood or atmosphere you are trying to create. (select your location with this in mind)
3. Lighting + Colour - this should compliment the mood and atmosphere e.g. a sense of age, use sepia; vibrant energy, use primary colours; wealth or oppulance, highlight golds, yellows and silvers; sinistra or macabre, use blacks and purples.
4. Props - part of the setting, these must compliment the intention e.g. a cup of tea in a delicate china tea cup might not be the chosen drink of a drug added heavy rockstar.

When analysing photographs or taking them, you must be able to explain the mise-en-scene.