Mise En Scene: Costume Hair & Make - up

The costume, hair and make up of a character plays a huge part in the mise en scene as it can be used in such a variety of ways to indicate to us a characters personality, social stats and job.
We can tell if the character is in the present day or past,

Their culture,

a clue as to the part the character plays in a film,

We can clearly see this person is a police officer via her costume.

and also the genre of the film.

With the use of this cape, w can assume that this film is of a thriller/horror genre.

Make Up

Make up in the early days of cinema was fundamental to highlight certain facial features as the black and white film stock couldn't register detail very well.