Reasearch: Facial expression, Body language and Costume

Rasearch on Body language, Facial expression and Costume:

What is Body language, Facial expression and Costume:

Body language is the way a characters actions, movement and the way they represent themselves in film. Body language is a important convention in film because it helps us to understand the way the character is going to be as it will show us if the person is for example crazy their body language will be extravagant and will show us that the person is crazy.

Facial expression is the emotions that someone shows through their face for example sadness. Facial expression is important because it helps the audience  to understand the way the actor/actress is feeling when we are watching the film.

Costume is what the actor/actress is wearing in the film. Costume is important because it shows how a character is going to be represented for example when a female victim will wear white to show the audience that she is a sweet innocent girl this will help the audience to bew the victim in the film.

The connotaions and stereotypes of characters costume:
There are many stereotypes of characters costume in film that all people will expect a victim, antagonist and protagonist to wear in film for example people would expect a antagonist to wear black or a mask and they would expect the victim to wear white clothes or cute clothes and also they could be a child so they could also expect them to wear childs clothes these are stereo typed as they have been used in thriller films for many years.

Stereotypical victim costume:
A stereotypical victim will be a female in her teens they will most likely have long blonde hair to make her look cute she will be very attractive she will also wear a dress on any other clothes that are reveling and she will wear light colours for example white and she will be a easy target an example of this is the female victim ion the first scene of scream.

Stereo typical antagonist costume:

A stereo typical antagonist will wear dark colours like black will wear mask or something to conceal there identity scruffy long hair to make them look crazy and also they could have facial dissfigerments an example os stereo typical antagonist is a jason from friday the thirteenth.

How body language is represented to the audience:
Body language language is used in thrillers to affect them and to make them feel emotions for example body language of a victim would terrified and hopeless and this will make the audience feel empathy towards to the victim.

Stereotypical victim body language:
Stereotypical body language of a victim will be scared, terrified, dum, flurtasios this is because they want the audience to see the victim as a easy target and make the audience feel empathy towards them so that they can feel the way the that the victim feels.

Stereotypical antagonist body language:
Stereotypical body language of a antagonist is confident, calm, strong and intimidating this is because they want the audience to see the antagonist as a scary intimidating person that will create fear for audience when they see him/her.

How facial expression is represented to the audience:
Facial expression is used to make the audience know how the understand the way that the actor/actress is feeling this makes it easy for the audience to understand what kind of film they are watching as in a thriller a stereotypical facial expression would be fear so they would most likely think that is the genre they are watching.

Stereotypical victim facial expression:
Stereotypical victim facial expression are terrified, scared facial expressions this makes it clear that they are the victim and is used to make people show empathy towards the victim.

Stereotypical antagonist facial expression:
Stereotypical antagonist facial expressions will be confident and crazy facial expressions to make it clear they the antagonist as people have stereo typed these facial expressions over a long period of time.

Conclusion: 
My reasearch into Body language, Facial expression and costume has helped me to understand how the acters in my thriller will be able to affect my audience by using body language and facial expression and i have now a idea of what people will expect my victim and antagonist to wear in my thriller. /therefore my reasearch has given ideas of how i can make my thriller a great one.