The phrase "altering the scene" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes made to a visual or narrative context, such as in storytelling, filmmaking, or art.
Example: "The director focused on altering the scene to create a more dramatic atmosphere."
Alternatives: "modifying the setting" or "changing the backdrop".
Mr. Sammon doesn't claim to be a photojournalist (where altering the scene is frowned upon) but says he thinks more like a painter.
After the bullet cut through the wall, the police said, the teenager who fired the shot and several of his friends tried to cover up what had happened: first, by altering the scene in the kitchen as the girl lay dying, and then by leaving her without calling for help.
She thus does not so much refute Freud's account of the Oedipal Complex and the little girl's purported masculinity as re-present its primal crime against women, the Oedipal exclusion of maternal dependency, thereby altering the scene of its representation.
Something in me refuses to end this project, since I find myself continuously moving and altering the scene... 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll's books.
Riley Choate has been charged with murder, battery, neglect of a dependent, criminal confinement, altering the scene of a death, failing to notify authorities of discovering a dead body and failing to report a dead body.
Participants were first asked to identify and remove any items which they felt they could afford to take away from that scene without altering the scene's vividness in their imagination, or compromising the sense that what they were visualising was a definite indoor scene.
I switched to a near-perfectly transmissive glass material, and altered the scene settings to facilitate my objective.
It works by detecting the changes in pixelation that occur when something moves and alters the scene.
For a climactic duel sequence the writer discusses the scene with a docent at the estate, forgetting that he has altered the scene in the script..
For a climactic duel sequence the writer discusses the scene with a docent at the estate, forgetting that he has altered the scene in the script.
In doing so, the officer said, the railroad had "materially altered the scene of the Feaster accident prior to the completion of my investigation".
