For my mise-en-scene project, me and my group made it our goal to clearly show the characters "trope" and personality. We wanted to do this in a way where a person could come to our station and easily figure out how to navigate our activity. We believed that by doing this we would be maximizing the amount of information a person learned about our character.
Our character was a movie lover who also enjoys hanging out with her friends. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and dog. She's currently a stay at home wife who blogs as a hobby. In her blog she watches, analyzes, and critiques movies for her followers. If she's not blogging then you're likely to find her on a walk around the nearest park or out with her friends. We developed our character mainly through the use of construction and stereotypes. For our lighting, or colors, we decided to use darker neutrals to make a point of her not going out often and preferring to stay in the comfort of her own home. For our audio, we used slower songs from movies to show that she lives a slow-paced life, surrounded by movies. We portrayed our stereotypes mostly through visuals in our activity: movie posters in the characters bedroom, casual clothing, mood boards, etc. We believed that one of the typically signs of a movie lover in their 20s are movie posters, vines, and a comfortable bed, given it's more likely the character stays there for most of their day.
To illustrate our character we created a game, a physical (paper) representation of her, and a visual of her room. For the game, one of my group members did some coding on an app which then allowed other people to click through a presentation as if they were playing a mobile app game. Throughout the game, people were able to learn more about the characters everyday life, personality, and trope. One of the key features of this activity was that people were able to do our character's makeup. Another activity we did was our physical board, which was a visual of the characters bedroom. Here, people could dress the character up differently through the use of some clothes my group members made. People could also gain a better connection with our character as the activity brought you into the character's actual room. On the day of the presentation we put all the computers closer together, for the first activity, and then put the second activity a little more off to the side, that way it was still visible but it wasn't in the way of anything. I believe that my group did a great job at putting the whole project together and I'm personally happy with the results that we got. Each and every one of us put in hard work into the project so that it could be the best possible.
Activity #2
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