{"id":5740,"date":"2025-04-08T15:49:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/?p=5740"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:10:46","slug":"mise-en-scene-in-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/blog\/mise-en-scene-in-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mise-en-sc\u00e8ne in Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few weeks ago on the podcast, I&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/blog\/molly-st-louis-mosaicgroupmedia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spoke with Molly St. Louis<\/a>. Among many things, journalist, actor, marketer, Molly is someone who thinks deeply about performance. Not just in the theatrical sense, but in the way ideas perform out in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She brought up the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kuleshov_effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Kuleshov Effect<\/strong><\/a>, a foundational concept in film editing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story goes like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Russian filmmaker named Lev Kuleshov ran an experiment in the silent film era. He filmed a stoic actor, expressionless, looking directly into the camera. Then he spliced that footage with various other images: a bowl of soup. A child in a coffin. A woman reclining on a chaise lounge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audiences saw the man and said: \u201cHe\u2019s hungry.\u201d Or: \u201cHe\u2019s grieving.\u201d Or: \u201cHe\u2019s in love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Same clip. Same face. No change in expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meaning was created&nbsp;<em>entirely<\/em>&nbsp;by the frame surrounding it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"764\" data-src=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-127-1024x764.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5743 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/764;width:518px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-127-1024x764.png 1024w, https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-127-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-127-768x573.png 768w, https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-127.png 1120w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfi.edu\/kuleshov-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><sub>Image Source<\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Molly learned this while studying video editing, but she uses it every day in B2B content strategy. When she builds narrative videos or virtual events, she thinks not just about the content itself, but what surrounds it\u2014the audio design, the sequence of segments, the visual texture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of what we talk about in marketing centers around the idea or the message itself; what this essay focuses on is everything surrounding the idea or message that impacts its delivery and perception.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, we\u2019re diving into framing, signaling, and context.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mise-en-scene\"><strong>Mise-en-sc\u00e8ne<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s another insight from my conversation with Molly St. Louis that\u2019s been echoing in my mind ever since, and it\u2019s worth pausing on:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mise-en-sc%C3%A8ne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>mise-en-sc\u00e8ne<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a film concept that literally means \u201cplacing on stage,\u201d the composition of a scene, Also note that we\u2019ve written and referenced the<a href=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/blog\/the-content-mise-en-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;related \u201ccontent operations mise-en-place\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;several times in the past.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the way a director dresses the set, arranges the objects, selects the lighting, and frames the actor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ve seen this even if you don\u2019t know the term. Think of that scene in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pursuit_of_Happyness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Pursuit of Happyness<\/em><\/a>: Will Smith sleeping on a bathroom floor, cradling his son, paper towels under his head, wearing a crumpled business suit. As Molly put it in our podcast:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cYou know, instantly, without dialogue, that this is a father who\u2019s loving, determined, and down on his luck, but still holding it together.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scene is speaking for him without saying a word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1002\" height=\"522\" data-src=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-128.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5744 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-128.png 1002w, https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-128-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-128-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-128-1000x522.png 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1002px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1002\/522;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notforcourseworkblog.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/30\/mise-en-scene-analysis-the-pursuit-of-happyness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><sub>Image Source<\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Molly pointed out that we do the same thing in politics: flags behind candidates, children lined up in the background, construction workers in hard hats nodding solemnly. These aren\u2019t random choices. They\u2019re&nbsp;<em>signals<\/em>, many of which are consciously designed to send a certain message or emotion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you can, and should, bring that same level of intentionality to your work. As Molly put it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIf you want your business to seem quirky and fun, you don\u2019t say that out loud. You let the Legos on the office shelves do the talking.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What surrounds your content, your brand, your people, speaks loudly. It\u2019s the&nbsp;<em>scene<\/em>&nbsp;that gives the story its unconsciously legibility and conscious credibility.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Authority in the Room (or Zoom)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was at HubSpot, I discovered that the source and the presentation of the idea mattered as much as the idea itself (or perhaps even more).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had come from early stage startups before that, where speed was the modus operandi and there were fewer vectors to align. That\u2019s to say, we didn\u2019t waste a lot of time debating ideas, we just shipped and shipped fast.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s jarring to join a much larger company and realize that people do not operate the same way there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We often use the word \u201cpolitics\u201d as an epithet to describe what is essentially the messy reality of working with other humans, and in fact, we\u2019re always going to be doing \u201cpolitics\u201d regardless of the company size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It just increases in importance as you scale, much of which is due to the natural complexity of more permutations of people and resources. There\u2019s also a greater risk aversion, which, again, is natural. At a startup, your only real advantage is speed and agility. At a larger corporation, there\u2019s more to lose if you get it wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I learned politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And one big learning I had is that if my ideas came vetted from outside the organization, they held more weight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily, I had hundreds of articles on the CXL blog (and across the web) on experimentation and analytics, which helped my credibility. I saw them shared naturally in different Slack channels at HubSpot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also spoke at conferences and meetups regularly and kept my own blog, which several executives at HubSpot read.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course, I put together the foundational slide decks and I set up the necessary meetings. But when I really wanted to push a bold idea through, I came at it from multiple angles, many of which were bolstered by outside credibility.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a large value add of outside consultants, who are often trusted merely because they are coming from Accenture or McKinsey. It\u2019s not just the 2X2 matrix and pretty slide deck that people are paying for.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Digital PR and Prestige Content<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I think about this when it comes to content as well, particularly the kind that includes original research or data points.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Certainly, one of the values is that you can publish it and it will drive some backlinks. You can gate the asset and it will drive some MQLs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But another benefit is you can leverage it to be mentioned or syndicated in legacy or prestige media, which is taken much more seriously than a company blog.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a reason we trust what we read in the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;more than what we see in a Twitter thread, even if they say the same thing. There\u2019s a reason a quote hits harder in a TED Talk than in a bullet point slide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thedecisionlab.com\/biases\/halo-effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">halo effect<\/a>\u2013our tendency to let one positive attribute influence how we perceive everything else, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thedecisionlab.com\/biases\/authority-bias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">authority bias<\/a>\u2013our tendency to trust information more if it comes from perceived authority figures\u2013play into this. If someone is polished, articulate, and cited by prestigious sources, we assume their ideas must be smart, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s not a bug. It\u2019s how our brains evolved to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/blog\/meditation-on-attention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">process overwhelming amounts of information<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dress for Success<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t always take this seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming up in the Austin tech scene, a sport coat was a red flag \u2013 honestly quite strange if you saw someone wearing one around the city. That\u2019s an Austin thing, but also a tech thing, with the historically prototypical outfit being a hoodie or startup tee. Nothing flashy; counter-signaling against ostentatious finance types, perhaps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But context changes. Now I spend my days in conversation with CMOs, VPs, etc., and I live in New York City, where it\u2019s\u2026well, it\u2019s a very fashionable city. Even on Zoom, when I\u2019m talking to current or potential clients, my free startup tee wasn\u2019t really signaling competence or respect. It was closer to \u201cI just rolled out of bed and maybe hit a vape before this call.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/garrettmehrguth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Garrett Mehrguth<\/a>&nbsp;from Directive nailed this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/garrettmehrguth_my-last-agency-was-always-wearing-hoodies-activity-7295159900739907584-37L9?rcm=ACoAAAtFHEsB_DMU-eMfKHmQkgbEDwgppfjTSfQ&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletter&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--FqR6TzKm43Mzcdjd5rynITzn9zmtJND0gBumvEjbGIXqgdA3oRIQZGIa6E6_qbkg8VB80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">with a story he shared on LinkedIn<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"593\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-129-593x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5746 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-129-593x1024.png 593w, https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-129-174x300.png 174w, https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-129.png 732w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 593px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 593\/1024;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, this is a fluid and dynamic arena. You can\u2019t just dictate a simple rule like \u201cwear a suit,\u201d like you could in the past. It depends on the image you\u2019re hoping to display, differentiation from the status quo, which industry you\u2019re in, which customers you\u2019re targeting, etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the point is you\u2019re always signaling something, regardless of whether you\u2019re consciously trying to do so. Again, you may as well be intentional about these signals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Print Magazines and the Cost of Credibility<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one reason why we made a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>print magazin<\/strong><\/a><strong>e<\/strong>&nbsp;for our podcast (the other being that it was fun and we just wanted to).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, you can listen to the same episodes on Spotify. You can read the transcripts. We even publish the key takeaways online. The information is the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when we hand someone the magazine, the reaction is completely different. People keep it. Display it. Read it cover to cover. Text us about it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It feels real. It feels expensive. It feels like it took effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And effort, in today\u2019s content landscape, which is often flooded with AI slop and low effort algorithm-bait,&nbsp;<em>is<\/em>&nbsp;a credibility signal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Costly_signaling_theory_in_evolutionary_psychology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>costly signaling theory<\/strong><\/a>, a concept from evolutionary biology. The idea is that signals are only trusted when they\u2019re hard to fake. A peacock\u2019s tail isn\u2019t useful for survival, it\u2019s useful because it\u2019s&nbsp;<em>expensive<\/em>&nbsp;(and possibly counterproductive to survival). It says, \u201cI\u2019m so fit I can carry this deadweight and still thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tweet is cheap. A podcast clip is replicable. A print magazine means you cared enough to make something that can\u2019t just be spun up in ChatGPT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Same message. Different medium. Different impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Subway Symphony<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the most poetic example of all this is the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/woodpecker.com\/blogs\/joshua_bell_subway.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Joshua Bell experiment<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bell, one of the greatest violinists alive, once played in a D.C. subway station as part of a social experiment. He wore a baseball cap. Played a $3.5 million Stradivarius. Performed Bach and Schubert to rush-hour commuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost no one stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He played the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernmusicology.com\/joshua-bell-a-story-about-positioning-positioning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exact same set at the Boston Philharmonic<\/a>, earning ~$60,000. In the subway, he made ~$32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Same music. Same artist. Different context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You\u2019re Always Sending a Signal<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me again admit that I\u2019m a growth marketer who has rightfully come around to the power of brand, the irrational, and the emotional. The connotative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It really came to me after reading Rory Sutherland\u2019s Alchemy, and my appreciation for this stuff has only increased in recent years, as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/blog\/the-new-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marginal cost of creation is decreasin<\/a>g (increasing supply and, in many ways, leveling the playing field for median quality).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I\u2019ve turned my attention to what is scarce, what is value additive to the world, and what is hard to fake. And there are many of those things, but the context and the perception of what we\u2019re creating is certainly one of them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the thing is, you can\u2019t really opt out of signaling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consciously or not, the messages you\u2019re putting out into the world are filtered through the perception of the receiver (which among many things, are influenced by the form, the medium, and the surrounding quality and credibility cues).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want more insights like this?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/newsletter\/\">Subscribe to our&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Field&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/newsletter\/\">Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago on the podcast, I&nbsp;spoke with Molly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[184,25],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-field-notes","8":"category-seo"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mise-en-sc\u00e8ne in Marketing - Omniscient Digital<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/blog\/mise-en-scene-in-marketing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mise-en-sc\u00e8ne in Marketing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A few weeks ago on the podcast, I&nbsp;spoke with Molly St. Louis. 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