M.E.S Body Lnguage -Miss H

M.E.S - Body language

The way a character walks, talks, stands is what determines the body language of a character. The body language of the character can tell you a lot in the film, the way the character acts will show the audience what type of a character he/she is, this is conventional to any type of film that is in presentation because every character always he something to tell through their body language.

Example of a picture that represents body language & facial expression:

As we could see in this picture there are several factors that show what type of character this person will be represented as. For example by taking how he is standing we could say that he looks quite confident, also we see this the way he holds his gun, it is quiet firm and like he has held one before so he knows how it is used. Also we see his face expression, we see that he knows what he meant to do and he has no intension from changing what he is thinking.

 

There are a few features that show is the character is a protagonist:

·         Heroic

·         Brave

·         Standing tall

·         Confident

·         Muscular

·         Posture- no fear, prepared

 


 

There are also features that show if the character is an antagonist:

·         awkward

·         Confident- in a different way to a protagonist

·         Ability to kill

·         No smiling

·         Lonely

 

 

 

 

 

What my character is going to be like in my thriller (antagonist)

In my thriller my character will be represented much more differently than a character in a romance film, in a thriller the characters body language and facial expression will be more firm and a cold hearted look as for in a romance film it will be the complete opposite, because the concept in both films are different, in one film it is on the base line of love and joy, but the other it is about fear and not knowing what is going to happen.

We also get a different representation from characters that are represented in a action film,. The action film characters body language is always upright, looks confident and looks very supreme in the way they are. They also have a different type of facial expression which is straight and appears to the audience as quiet serious.

All of these representations of the characters are messages to the audience, in what they are expected to see from the character and how they should be portrayed throughout the film.

Types of facial expressions you will expect to see from:

Antagonist: straight face, hard looking, serious

Female victim: scared, worried, helpless

Child:  innocent, confused, worried

 

Character representations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taqnAzd1fyg : blade

The character representation on the character “Blade” is very bold in this clip. He is shown as a very serious, hard to defeat and confident character amongst the audience. In the start of the clip blade’s facial expression seems to be very confident in what he is going to do because he feels he could achieve it, but as the clip goes on we see signs of him being worried, features such as sweating show this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZLkvLuezrM : scream death scene

In this clip we find all characters body language all happy and joyful, and there facial; expression supporting this statement, but as the clip goes on and scream starts to speak on the phone moods of all antagonist change into a worried body language and facial expression.