The goals of our Mise En Scene project was to create various elements from a character description and bring it to life.We were primarily tasked to focus on three main elements: physical representation, setting, and audio. For the physical representation category, we had to design our characters appearance, costuming, and makeup. The setting had to compose of our characters bedroom or most utilized space, while the audio had to be music or stings that could be tied to the character. Once we created all our elements, we were tasked with creating 4 stations to represent them. Each should depict a different aspect of her life and include various types of representations like tactile, visual, and auditory.
Our characters name was Ivy Carrington, a college student who fought for what she believed in: saving her planet. Ivy was a young earth activist who studied environmental science in her college, the university of California. In her day to day life, she is very committed to her activism about her climate. She often organizes various rallies, leading in most, at her school. Her home life was also very social since she lived in an apartment with her 3 best friends 5 minutes away from her campus. Overall, Ivy is a very outgoing and social girl.
For our physical representation, we used a Canva board to illustrate her main physical features like her hair, favorite color, and typical clothing. This was apart of our visual representation of Ivy, and was one of the main stations we incorporated. The slide also had a lengthy textual description of our character, providing context and necessary information to our readers. To help illustrate her setting, we utilized a 3D software called Planner5D. Essentially, we built a room for Ivy and displayed it as an interactive station in our project. Our auditory components consisted of songs that represented Ivy. This included things like: songs she would study to, songs to empower herself, and her favorite songs in general. We embedded these directly into a Canva slide, where the audience could click to play their songs. This was also displayed on a separate station for people to engage with. Our tactile representation was a poster, which represented one of the posters that Ivy would bring to a rally. Combining all of these elements, we were able to properly convey Ivy's personality traits.
When developing these components, my group first started to come up with Ivy's main features. This included coming up with her setting and its related elements, and putting it into writing. We also made all her physical features on the same document as well. Through this, it became much easier for us to divide up the work amongst ourselves. After we divided it, each member knew what they had to include in their representation and had a general idea of how to do it. Overall, I am very happy with how the project turned out. Personally I think each of the 4 stations ended up perfectly and accurately represented my character, Ivy Carrington.
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