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Assignment 5 Settings, Décor, Costume and Make-up Analysis

Assignment 5 Settings, Décor, Costume and Make-up Analysis

Q Assignment #5: Settings, Décor, Costume and Make-up Analysis Settings and Décor, Costumes and Make-up After studying this week's subject material on Settings and Décor, Costumes and Make-up, I would like you to choose ONE of the following two options. Option 1. The Silence of the Lambs - Watch or re-watch the following scene from the film and complete the systematic analysis of the Settings and Decor and the Costumes and Make-up, both parts a) and b). Here is the context for the film if it was not your Assigned Film choice this week. A freshly graduated FBI Agent, Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster, is sent by her boss to interview notorious psychotic murderer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, to try to find out information about a serial killer who is abducting and killing young women.

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1. The Set is an Exterior. It presents the landscape of a series of apartments and the people inhabiting them being visible through their window. A narrow lane can be seen meeting into the broader street outside. The scene then moves into the interior of Jeffries’ apartment. Thus this scene is a mixture of both interior and exterior. 2. Although the set décor aims at representing a life like simulation, it appears to be highly stylized. For instance, the broad windows, the quirks of the people being visible from these windows present a hyper stylized mode of representation. Moreover the set décor is evident of formalist elements. 3. The set is evidently a Studio as most other Hitchcock productions. 4. This set is very typical of the 1950/60s living arrangements in the USA especially in the suburbs. The set signifies a living arrangement that too in close quarters which stations different kinds of people, all at once. 5. The income level of the owners can be suggested as middle class to slightly