Mis en scene: Costume hair and make up

Costume, hair and make up are the important micro elements of a characters physical appearance such as clothes, hair style and colour, skin tone and facial colours. This is an important convention because it helps to represent the characters personality or daily routine, it can also show how the character is feeling and thinking based on their choice of clothing. Colours of skin can depict the characters physical health or role in film, so if they are significant or not. Hair style may show how careful or serious the person is based on how self conscious they are.

Costume hair and make up:
Different types of costume hair and make up, can indicate a characters level of confidence,  significance and how much they blend in to their setting. For example a character who wears bright or revealing clothes shows someone who inst really bothered about what people think these people are usually strong female heroins in thriller films. wild hair can show that the character is comfortable in their own skin, furious, determined and disorganized. If the character wears a lot of colorful make up it can show that they may be outgoing and wants people to notice them more most of the times they may assume roles of characters who are mischievous and may be a significant role because of this, or if they have a more dull skin tone or appearance it suggests they are a more inferior passive role in the thriller film and doesn't like to show themselves.

The stereotypical victim in a thriller film may wear clothing that makes them appear timid and vulnerable such as dull colours so they can blend in and hopefully not be noticed by the antagonist or it may not be expensive or fancy to add to make them seem powerless and easy targets. their skin tone is usually fair to give them an innocent look, they do not always wear a lot of make up.



An antagonist may wear clothes that makes them appear dark and mysterious, crazy or unrecognizable. Some villains may have costumes which make them appear rich and powerful to make them seem intimidating. Villains may have dramatic facial make up, or be pale to make them appear scary as their stereotype.

Thriller opening scene: Lucy

In this scene you can see that the victim/hero is stereo typically blonde like most victims in films although she is wearing bright clothes, make up and wild hair, showing the audience she is careless like most turned strong female characters in movies.

The antagonists here are stereotypically dressed in black clothes to symbolize their role, the are wearing professional clothes to seem powerful and intimidating, their hair is shaven and slick showing they are serious and unsympathetic.