To enhance the mood, the curator Michael Reynolds added atmospheric details, like an actual bale of hay in the gallery.
The audience wants the lighting to enhance the mood and atmosphere of the scene – not to wonder how the lanterns are attached or wired.
From these negatives, Mr. Ruff made a series of large prints, adding only a few touches of color -- mostly muted, dusty greens -- that enhance the mood of industrial nostalgia.
Musical motifs, too, steer and enhance the mood while the actors speak (this same "underscoring" technique is used in Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck's world-music score for the Globe's concurrent production of Much Ado About Nothing).
He can spot the wrong tie in a sea of extras and will park a boring white car next to a snazzier baby blue model to enhance the mood.
Ridley Scott's science-fiction drama Blade Runner (1982) revisited the use of set design to enhance the mood, an idea that can be traced back to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Just as music can enhance the mood of a dance and influence the way in which the spectator interprets its dramatic content, so visual elements such as costume, makeup, masks, props, lighting, and stage sets may also amplify certain qualities of dance movement.
It has got to the stage that even if Arsène Wenger didn't believe that a particular star could improve his team, it might be worth signing him just to enhance the mood around Arsenal, as a kind of marquee placebo.
