Mise-en-scene

      For this activity, we, my group and all other groups, were assigned a task of creating a character through a variety of techniques. Some of these techniques included visual, tactile, and sound representations. We were required to make a visual type of representation, a mood board, a description of our character, some sound elements that we'd be able to incorporate within all this, a visual of what our character's setting looked like, and we were required to bring in some items to help bring our character to life.

      Our character was named Dahlia Willows. She's a seventeen-year-old girl with big brown eyes, short wavy brown hair with bangs, freckles, heterochromia, and a fall inspired style. She lives in a small town called Half-Moon Bay in California where she works in a record/film shop. Since she loves movies so much, she posts reviews on Letterboxd and creates blogs about her favorite movies. She also is a very social person who loves to go to small local band concerts, and she also is the president of the film club. Her going to many school events makes her well-known/popular throughout school. 

     For this character we created a video with a bunch of movie clips, and we included the ocean in the area that she lives in. We also included clips of artists singing in the video as she also loves music thoroughly. Our group created a playlist of similar sounding music, and we created a mood board of her type of aesthetic. To combat this, we brought in some movie CD's, a book that matched the movie CD, a crafted representation of the place she lives in in a shoe box, headphones, camera, and an origami of a Oscar's award. All of her character was then explained in a description.

     In our station, we had a computer on each of two desks, and we had two computers on one desk since we needed the last desk to present all of our physical/tactile presentations. We organized our items to look pretty but not super organized since that'd look weird for our specific character. Overall, I believe my group did an amazing job and all my teammates pulled through to really make this activity more fun. Our outcome for this project was not perfect, but it was matched by all of the work we put into it.

     To first generate an idea of our character, we thought of the many different stereotypes to the people that love movies. We immediately thought a teenager who was female with homely and fall inspired style. This was our basis. We incorporated many cool hues into her aesthetic but included some dark reds as fall often is represented by many shades of reds. After this, we pulled inspiration from real life examples to create her look. And we created her home based off of where characters we knew of that reminded us of our character, lived. Although our certain character would follow the "quiet and introverted" stereotype, we needed to make our character social, according to the instructions that were given to us. So, we had to create idea that made sense that our character would do, like attend local band concerts and be president of her school's film club which made her popular. After all of this, we had finally created our character, and her name was Dahlia Willows.

Our creations:

Dahlia Willows video repeat.mp4