Mise-en-scene blog post

Our goals for the activity was to truly make our character come to life. We wanted to make it feel like our peers actually knew our character personally and how she was and what her personality was like. We tried to get into the headspace of how we thought how character would think. After that, we started to picture what she would look like and what her interests were. Then we got into the tiny details like what her bedroom looked like, etc. We also wanted to make out station an enjoyable experience for our peers. For example, through her playlist and tactile objects. Morgan goes to a University as an Environmental science major. She enjoys going to rallies and participating on campus. Her friends like to think of her as very passionate, driven, and social! Morgan loves putting together her protests and enjoys the little things like reading and taking walks. In order to create our character, we had to truly envision what she would look like. We pictured her as pale with long blonde straight hair and green eyes. For her style, we imagined her with glasses and a bit of a preppy style, but she still is always repping for her passion which is the environment. For our tactile objects to help bring her to life, we included glasses, a book, and a protest sign. We all thought these items summed her up perfectly. Some things we created to illustrate our character were like her dorm room, her Instagram page, and even a mood board.

We had setup a laptop with different tabs of all the elements we had carefully put together to truly make our character come to life. We had our peers first open up the Spotify playlist tab, and had them listen to our character's playlist as they got to know her. We thought this would put them in her headspace and make them feel like they really knew her. We had also setup the tactile objects I had previously mentioned so they could get a firsthand experience. Than we put together the descriptions of her so they could get to know her even better.

For our character analysis, we went a little bit with a stereotype. We knew that our character would be heavily involved with school, especially since a huge part of her personality is being an environmental science major, so we made her look a little nerdy by giving her glasses and dressing her in collared shirts and such. I think overall my group did an excellent job at executing our station and making this character come to life. Something I think we could’ve improved was our time management. I think we could’ve work more efficiently to get the end result we did. But overall I think the project turned out just the way we wanted to!