Research:Mis es scene: Body Language and Facial Expressions and costume

Costume:

The element of costume in film, Influences any film to become typical of it's genre. Costume is what the characters wear in the film. Along with colour representation, costume can make the audience understand the motives of a character. In other words, costume InfluenceS character representation.


Scream 3 contains a scene that highlights the represenatation of costume, one of the victims and the antagonist is wearing a costume of dark colur to connote the coming of danger and death to the audience. Meanwhile, the other victim is wearing a costume of white colour, this connotes his weakness and vulnerabilty. This very well collabarates with the action  and dialogue that is taking place. In addition, the anatgonist is wearing a mask which means he has a hidden identity, this makes the audience suspicious of every character along with tension.


Body Language:

Body language is crucial aspect of a character in a film. Body language defines the movement of a character, the action and the presentation that they give of themselves.

With every film genre there is a conventional body language with every character. In thrillers, the characters are protagonists, antagonists and victims.

For antagonist, the body language could be any posture, good or bad, along with calm and confidence. The body language will influence how intimidating the antagonist is in the film, making it a factor of the audience give a chilling feared response to the antagonist making them suspicious of the antagonist due to his mysterious body language .

For a victim, their body language associates with their fear and vulnerability. They can have a bad posture in the state of being afraid or vulnerable. This would increase a feared response from the audience.Furthermore, body language in thrillers gives and maintains a sense of reality to the audience. Body language, reflects the emotion of a character and can influence the audience to judge the personality of the character. Body language in thrillers can make the audience respond with a scared emotion, for body language(in films) can make the audience realise what is going to happen or what the character is attempting to do.

From the movie the shining i have selected a scene where body language is perfectly portrayed
Facial expression

Antagonists, will always have a facial expression that will scare the audience whether they smile or not. Their facial expression can be an evil smirk, which could be the message of satisfaction they have with what they done even at the moment they have been defeated. This makes the audience hate them more. Usually, the antagonist will show a facial expression that intimidates the audience.

For a protagonist, the facial expression could be good or bad depending on the situation or the mood. Since the audience like and relate to the protagonist, they would respond in a good or touching feeling for the protagonist. The protagonist can show a facial expression of defeat even at the point of victory over the antagonist, due to the lack of satisfaction  which could be in contrast to the antagonist.

As for the victim, They usually show a facial expression of fear, when there either being chased or about to die. Other times, victims will show a facial expression of unawareness, in other words at times they don't know that they are about to die, which frightens the audience more. The victim tends to be a person that is very attractive to make the murder appeal to the audience, therefore when the victim is about to die, the audience will give a reaction that collaborates with the facial expression of worry the male or female victim.

Facial expression gives the audience a sense of reality to keep them engaged in the film. Also, facial expression has influence in highlighting a theme in a film. Furthermore, facial expression tends to be a reaction to a situation, making the audience react to the facial expression the character is giving. Regarding plot facial expression can have little significance into the ending of any movie.

These videos is an example of body language and facial expression of a antagonist, protagonist and victims in thrillers.

This scene is a perfect portrayal of facial expression. From se7en the villain John Doe shows a facial expression of unremorse for the murders he had committed , especially the murder of David Mill's wife. This makes the audience hate him more for this reason as well as showing no remorse for the crimes he comitted. Meanwhile in contrast, the two detectives David Mills and William Somerset show facial expression of defeat, David Mills especially. The audience will be upset and they will show the same emotions as the two detectives in the film, for they can relate to both of them.

What this has taught me is the importance of costume, body language and facial expression. Costume presents the colour representation of every character. Body language is used by the character to make it conventional of the type of character they are in a thriller. Facial expression is used to collabarate with the character's action and body language, as well as signallins a true message to the audience. This is what I will apply to my thriller