Textual analysis of a film character - Snow White:



Completed by: Me and Chloe

Snow White's appearance

This is a photo of 'Snow White' which we are going to analyse the characters appearance as we will be using it within our 2 minute opening sequence.


Clothing:

• Long yellow skirt can represent sunshine and all things good, we can change this by making the skirt a complete opposite colour and ripping it up.
• The collar represents an air of royalty and protection. We won't use a collar in our characters appearance as she isn't royal she is a dark character, and will be scruffy and ragged.
• Corset represents that she is confident about herself and that she tries to emphasize her looks. We want to make our character have a baggy top that will be ripped up so it looks like she's been attacked.
• Frilly lining represents that she is innocent and girlish and naive to the dangers in life. We will change that to mud staining her top to show she's been in a struggle.
• Cream bowed court heels represents that she is formal and she takes care of her appearance but we're going to change this so the character is wearing no shoes and her feet will be muddy.
• Her bow hairband represents her innocence. We are going to keep this so that she has some part of her normality.

Make up and hair:

• Natural make up shows that although she is well groomed and cares about her looks, she doesn't try to over emphasize her looks. We will be keeping the natural make up as well.
• Pale face represents that she is innocent and/or worried easily as pale face is associated with nervousness. We will keep this as the character will be going through worrying times.
• Red lips are contrasted against her pale face which makes the character more complex and also shows her femine side. We will keep this also because red will stand out and is also related to the colour of the apple.
• Curly hair represents that she is well groomed which suggests that she is well off, however we are going to make her hair messy by backcombing it.
• Jet black hair is another contrast with the pale face and is dark which could symbolise there is darkness within her.

In conclusion:

We analysed the appearance of the original character "Snow White" so we could decide what features of her appearance we would need or want to change for our film. We have decided to change her appearance with the changes we have stated above because our film genre is thriller and fantasy and these changes will suit that genre more.

We have analysed a character from a fantasy childhood story line to get an understanding of what we want our character to produce. This helped us analyse the key features which we want to keep within the Snow White character and aspects which we want to change. We will create a similar costume to this. After we created a Voki, of how we want Snow White to look like. This allowed us to all get the same understanding of what we want our character to visually look like.