Research Mise En Scene: Costume, Body Language & Facial Expressions

Body Language:

The body language of the character is the way that they act, move or is positioned in the film shown towards the audience. The way the character has been positioned in the film for example the whole body or parts of the body, the levels that they are at like crouched or standing tall and proud towards the audience. Depending on the on the character in the thriller film there body language shown would be conventional to the thriller film and the same with other genres. 

 Facial Expressions:
Facial expressions in a film is a way that character has been portrayed to the audience, the look on the face of the character and then this creates meaning towards the audience. Depending on the facial expression of the character the audience can tell what the characters emotions are, also the facial expression of shock could show in the thriller scene that someone has approached the victim and there is something bad going to happen.

Costume, Hair & Make Up:
Costumes are conventional in amongst all genres in the film industry, a common convention of costume for the antagonist is dark clothing to show the evil of the character. This is evident, because in all thriller/horror genres the antagonist is wearing black clothing all over, this is because when killing someone the blood wouldn't show as much also you can become almost invisible to people in the dark. 
The common conventions of a protagonist in a thriller film is that they wear light colours to show the innocents of the character. This is most evident in when victims are in the scene because they mainly wear white coloured clothing to show purity and this is the complete opposite of the antagonist.













In this photo you can see that casey has been shocked or is scared of what she is hearing over the phone, the body language of hers is shown as closed up and all together as she is trying to find comfort in her to not be as scared from the antagonist over the phone. This creates emotion to the audience because they can emphasis with the female victim as they will have emotions towards her.  Also the common convention of a female victim's facial expression is screaming and crying as they are scared. This allows the audience to feel sorry and scared for her but still wanting to know what is going to happen to her. As well as the body language and facial expression the costume in the scene/film is important because the common conventions of the characters costume will allow the audience to know what the characters role in the scene/film is.



Protagonist common conventions:
- Organised look 
- White/Light Coloured Clothing
- Clean
- Mainly Blonde Female Victims

Antagonist common conventions:
- Dark Clothing 
- Tall 
- Hood 
- Facial Defect
- Dark hair