Saturday, 11 October 2014

Research - Mise en scene - Costume, have and make-up, body language andfacial expression - Miss begum

Mise en scene - Costume, body language, facial expression, hair and make-up


Costume, hair and make up, body language and facial expression are all important conventions because all together they make the film look processional. Costume, hair and make up can make it easy for the audience to identify they're role and they're personality. However, body language and facial expression allow the audience to identify they're emotions and thoughts.

A characters costume is what they will be wearing during the film. Costume allows the audience to figure they're character, job and status out such as a male antagonist will wear dark colours such as black this allows them to represent they're evilness within they're clothing options.Therefore, in thriller movies antagonist wear similar clothing because the audience will expect the antagonist to wear particular clothing and colours such as an antagonist will look scruffy with dark colours. The connotation of wearing black clothes such as a black long coat this connotes that the character is evil.
Therefore, a male protagonist will wear a neat suit that is either white or blue this connotes that they're powerful.
The protagonist's are both wearing suits that makes them look professional and powerful. 
Body language describes what the character is thinking or what they are going through. In thriller movies the male protagonist will always have a serious and upright body language this shows the audience the protagonists strength and this allows the audience to trust the male protagonist through out the film.The female victim will have a frightened body language this shows that the female victim is innocent and weak.
The body language of the protagonist shows the audience that they know what they are doing and that the character knows that they are powerful which makes the audience trust the character.


Hair and makeup also describes a characters personality without the hair and makeup it will be hard to figure out the difference is between characters because if characters wear the same clothes by they're hair and make-up the audience will know what character is who. The stereotypical  male protagonist has  short neat  hair or if they have long hair they will jell it to a side which will make the male protagonist look professional and organised. The stereotypical female antagonist will have long straight hair that has not been brushed out. Therefore, the female antagonist will have a lot of make up on which hides they're identity.
The make up hides the characters identity. The hair is very messy and short which is a stereotypical of a antagonist. 

Facial expressions make the audience believe what the character is going through or what they feel. The stereotypical female victim needs to make the audience feel how she is feelings by her facial expression she will need to show her fear with her facial expression to make the audience believe that she is frightened and is hopeless.Therefore, the protagonist needs to have a calm and relaxed facial expression this will show the audience that he is reliable and knows what they are doing.
facial expression of the female victim highlights that she is scared and has no hope this also shows that she is weak.
Thriller scene analysis

In the film seven (the beginning of the scene) the protagonist shows that he is powerful within his facial expression by having a straight face the whole time and controls the protagonist with his body language the body language of the protagonist is very upright and antagonist shows his strength. The protagonist  is wearing a suit which is a stereotypical of what the protagonist should be wearing so the audience could figure out the role of the character.Therefore, the protagonist  has short neat hair and has no make up on to hide his identity which highlights that he is rave enough to show the protagonist his face.However at the end of the scene the antagonist's facial expression changed into a male victim but this makes the audience feel sorry for the protagonist and it wouldn't change the audiences mind on what they think about the protagonist.

conclusion
In my thriller video that i will be making, i will make my antagonist have long straight hair that hasn't been brushed, have black make up on to hide they're identity, have black clothing, facial expression always straight to not show how they feel and have body language that doesn't give away they're plans or how they are feeling. By making my antagonist have these needs my antagonist will look like a strong and heartless character and this will make the audience scared of my antagonist.



1 comment:

  1. A good post here. Character representation is looked at and analysed well where you refer to classic characters and their appearance. Also, impact and response from the audience is mentioned which is good.

    To improve;
    -be more clear in your 'Seven' analysis. Refer to specific moments using the PEER structure analysing what is going on in the antagonist and protagonist.
    -think about other characters such as children and ghosts, bullet point their representation in terms of costume, hair and make up, body language and facial expressions

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