Comparing Musical And Dempsy's Zombie Prom

A character’s costume is much more than the clothes they wear to play a part. These clothes help us venture into the author’s world and help us connect with this new place and believe in its reality. They help us capture so much more than what the character looks like. We are able to see, feel, and experience the characters personality and purpose in the story. In a play or movie, we immediately make our fist connection with a character based on what they are wearing, this is the first step in drawing us in and making us believe in this new world. This first impression gives us the first glimpse at the characters style, background, and social class. All of these things are meant to immediately draw us in.

In the movie you can have real life like guns and big giant trucks or cars to make the movie more realistic, but in the play you can’t. For an example: In the movie you can have those big vehicles and guns and stuff, but in the play you can’t because someone might get hurt and it might be too

“costume is often coordinated with setting. Since the filmmaker usually wants to emphasize the human figures, setting may provide more or less neutral background, while costume helps pick out the characters. Color design is particularly important here.”

The production elements of the show were magnificent. The costumes were great and helped to establish the childlike quality of the show and characters. During the transitions, the characters wore clothing that would best suit a child in play. The

In the play the characters are described with detail, of course because you can not see them. The description of each character is precise. The actions, mood, setting are defined by every word, but sometimes, it just takes too long to describe something . In the film it´s different, it is a lot quicker. You can see every aspect of a character in just a couple of seconds, and you feel more connected to the characters if you can actually see them. Another

Another comparison is that the descriptions of the characters in the play and the movie were both pretty similar. Because of this similarity the story line can again be the

As the performance goes on, the costume design represents where our characters are at in their timeline. While, in the first act, the characters are dressed in stereotypical post-apocalyptic attire, it does vary in from what we are presented in the last two acts. Around the campfire, the characters are dressed in

The movie and the play are made in two different time periods. Since the movie is in a more recent time period, the clothes worn by the characters in the movie are more modern. The clothes in the play are more elegant and reflect the 16th century era.

For example, the scene designer, Pamela Hodges, accommodated the creative concept. He uses a square proscenium theatrical setting with a back-right stage staircase made of wood and paper. In addition, The costume design did not completely follow the concept. Spike and Masha's costumes that were worn for the costume party, as part of the costumes design each had capes attached to the back this is not natural, for usually costumes do not have capes. Masha's costume was a Snow White costume, and Spike’s costume was a Prince Charming costume. The costumes that each wore for the costume party had bright colors. Masha's costume blouse for the party is colored bright yellow. Nina's Dopey costume for the costume party colors bright green. Everyday costumes that did not surprise the audience were used. When Spike and Masha was cuddling in the first scene where both were present each one wore casual clothing Spike wore a black t-shirt while Masha wore a light and dark orange dress. Spike, and each female actor reveals skin. For Spike's skin revealing costume, Spike just wore black underwear. Masha's skin revealing costume is the

The play “A Doll's House” by Henrik Ibsen was written in 1879. Joseph Losey and Patrick garland in 1973 used the play to adopt a movie version of the play going by the same name. The cast in the movies depicted the characters in the play as described by Henrik Ibsen. This essay will analyze the similarities and the differences between the play by Henrik Ibsen and the films adopted from the play by Joseph Losey and Patrick garland.

Since the concept of our play is to make Disgraced as a sitcom, the costumes and lighting are crucial to make the concept of the play believable. The play takes place in the post 9/11 so the costumes will be very modern. While reading the play, the reader learns that the characters of the play are pretty well-off. When thinking about the costumes for the play, as the designer I thought, “the costumes definitely should show the characters’ economic status”. I thought because many times when viewing a play, the viewer can learn a lot about the characters from the costumes. The concept that we had for the costumes was to have

In the play the scenes weren't near as suspenseful as in the story. I think this is because they weren't really drawn out like the story had them. It could also be that you could see a person entering the stage so it kind of kills the suspense. If the characters needed to creep up stairs or enter a room it was kind of fake because they had a limited set to use.

Stanislavsky wrote three novels that discuss his acting method; An Actor Prepares, Building a Character, and Creating a Role. These books are from the perspective of a

A Midsummer Night’s Dream & A Doll’s House, written by William Shakespeare and Henrik Ibsen respectively, are plays that have a varying number of themes. These two plays are centuries apart yet, they share a strikingly similar approaches in regards to the themes that are scattered throughout both plays. Such themes consists of love and marriage, deceit and honesty and most noticeably the relationship between men and women. Though they share many of the same thematic elements, their stories are completely different from one another.

     The different versions of A Doll’s House studied offer different points of view. The stage version presents a third person-limited point of view. The audience knows everything going on the scene being played out before them, but cannot see beyond the set. They see the movements and hear the dialogue between all the characters within the limitations of the stage.