Visual Character Development in Film and Television: Your Character is Your Canvas

✍ Scribed by Michael Hanly, Elisabeth Rowney

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 183
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book takes a unique look at visual character development in motion pictures and television by using famous works of art combined with modern works of film and television to demonstrate how to weave a visual tale.

In a single shot or scene, what should we reveal about a character? What should we conceal? How can we show a character’s progression over time? In Visual Character Development in Film and Television, authors Michael Hanly and Elisabeth Rowney explain how to create compelling visual characters for the screen by analyzing fine art aesthetics and combining them with modern cinematic techniques. Full-color chapters cover character-driven approaches to costume design and makeup application, production design, cinematography and lighting, plot development, editing considerations, and more.

By exploring how surroundings, habits, lifestyles – even the color of a sweater – can tell us more about a character on the screen than what can be said in dialogue alone, this book will prove a valuable resource for anyone wanting to take their filmmaking to the next level.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Praise
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
NOTE
CHAPTER 1: GENRES AND PERCEPTION
GENRE
INNER STRUGGLES
BELIEF OF PERCEPTION
NOTES
CHAPTER 2: WORLDS AND SETTINGS
CRAFTING A “REALISTIC” CANVAS
NOTES
CHAPTER 3: CHARACTER INTERIORS AND ACCESSORIES
SETTING THE SCENE
PROPS
NOTES
CHAPTER 4: MASKING AND UNMASKING CHARACTERS
CARNIVAL
THE HEROIC SIDE OF MASKS
NO MASK REQUIRED
SELF-PORTRAIT OR MASK
NOTES
CHAPTER 5: CHARACTER AND WARDROBE
BEYOND THE MASKS
“YOU’RE GOING TO WEAR THAT?”
“WHO ARE YOU WEARING?”
“YOU’RE SHERLOCK HOLMES: WEAR THE DAMN HAT!”
“BOWTIES ARE COOL”
NOTES
CHAPTER 6: ADDING COLORFUL MEANING
MEANING OF COLOR
THE TECHNOLOGY OF COLOR
NOTES
EPILOGUE
DID YOU SEE IT?
Index