M.E.S Costume - Miss H

How is costumes used to represent characters

 

Costume is one of the main features in what or how the character is represented in a film. For example the colour white (or very light colours) represents innocence and a sign of the character being a protagonist. As for the opposite colour black (or very dark colours) is shown as the complete opposite, it shows a sign of evilness and shows a sign of the character being an antagonist.

 

In film genres we always have the typical antagonist characters and the typical protagonist characters. On typical antagonist character is “the joker” in the film batman.

 

As we could see the antagonist which is the joker is wearing very dull colours such as purple and dark green, by just seeing this character immediately we get the impression that this character will be the antagonist in the film genre.

 

And then we have the typical protagonist character such as “James bond” who plays In the films 007. As we could see he is wearing a white tuxedo which is a bright colour which will get the suggestion amongst the audience that he is a protagonist.

Then in some occasions we have characters that are ready to  fight, both characters will be wearing different types type of clothing, one will have very light colours and the other will have dark coloured clothing. Again there is representation on the antagonist and protagonist in what they are wearing and what response it should give the audience.  

As we could see in this picture we have our protagonist who is wearing white shirt and lighter coloured clothing than the other characters. The antagonists are wearing all black that just suggests that they are playing the antagonist role.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiJwGhTxzqI

in this clip by just taking a look at it I could see that that the protagonist is the one that is wearing white and the antagonist is the one that is wearing dark green. There colour of clothes help me infer a lot about the character.