How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Costume is an important
factor when creating a representation of a
particular type of character. We wanted to portray our protagonist
as a Stereotypical teenager – a sociable young
girl, whose traumatic events of her recent life has been emotionally affected.
We used costume to portray our character in
certain ways, and involved:
Comfortable Clothing – The sweater that Molly puts on during
the film opening gives connotations with warmth and
comfort, this emphasises the support Molly is
seeking after her parents death. She is ultimately receiving comfort from her
clothing rather than physically from humans.
Fashionable
Clothing – Following the convention of
psychological thrillers (the deterioration of a characters’s mental state as
the film develops) we decided we wanted to continue to portray
Molly as the young socialite that she is, at the start of the film.
Although we only created a film opening, we know that if the film was to
progress, this fashionable, socialite attire would
gradually change into dark, plain, maybe dirty clothing (with depressing connotations) that would portray her emotional state
having a physical impact.
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