scene setting
Creating the backdrop
Scene setting is establishing the context, background, or atmosphere before the main action begins.
A novelist does scene setting in opening paragraphs; a presenter does it before diving into data.
The term applies to any preparatory work that orients an audience: After some scene setting about the company's history, she got to the quarterly results.
- once upon a timeTraditional narrative opening
- ambianceMood of surroundings
- stagingPreparing for presentation
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
- set the stagePrepare conditions for events
mise-en-scène · props · painted backdrop · prologue · opening act · setup · lighting · set dressing · backdrop · milieu · establishing shot · atmosphere · color palette · visual storytelling · world-building · story world · scenery · tone
- Story Beginningsprologue, setup, context, hook, premise
- Storytelling skillspacing, timing, voice modulation, character voices, suspense building
- writing termsplot, character, creative writing, vivid imagery, composition
- exhibition termstrade show, fair, exhibit, gallery, showcase
- storytellingstorytelling, story, tale, narrative, narrator
- beginningsbegin, beginning, start, first, opening
scene settingaction
Process of doing
plot development · climax · rising action · dramatic action · turning point
scene settingclimax
Point of greatest intensity
resolution · denouement · conclusion · payoff · culmination
scene settingchase scene
Extended onscreen pursuit
fight scene · dramatic tension · high drama · page-turner · suspense