X PRE-PRODUCTION16 Mia Jones Outfit

INSPIRATION

In the beginning, we took inspiration from the character Wichita in the movie Zombieland, played by Emma Stone.  We were going to have Mia Jones dressed in a plain white, slightly baggy, V-neck top with a black leather jacket, blue ripped jeans and black flat boots.

Wichita in the middle

Now we have changed up her outfit a bit for a bit more male gaze, a theory by Laura Mulvey (you can see my other post about this here).  We took some inspiration from the musician PJ Harvey.  She often wear a dress or skirt with some boots.



Mia Jones will be wearing a short black dress which has the same sort of shape as the first picture, besides the neck line.  We will also have her wearing some black boots and a khaki thin jacket.

OUTFIT

These are sort of what the boots look like.  They have this snake skin shiny print and the buckles but have a bit of a higher heel like the next photo.

The dress looks exactly the same as this with the slight slit on the left thigh.  The length was inspired by the PJ Harvey dresses.  It's going to be quite cold so I will wear skin coloured tights underneath.

This is what the khaki jacket looks like.  It has a smaller collar than the one in this picture and it's slightly more cropped.

X IDEAS5 Character - Mia Jones

• Love interest
• 18 years old
• Attractive - male gaze - Laura Mulvey

FILMS/TV

• Dear John
• The Vow
• The Notebook
• World War Z
• Dawn of the Dead

GADGETS

• Phone
• Machete
• Pistol
• Pocket knife

ITEM OF CLOTHING

• Leather jacket
• Boots
• Black skinny high waisted jeans
• White vest top, slightly cropped, rip by the neck

PLACES SHE'S BEEN TO

• Los Angeles
• London
• Paris
• Tokyo
• Singapore

FOODS/DRINKS THEY LIKE

• Any kind of salad
• Has a guilty pleasure for chicken wings
• Water with lemon and cucumber 
• Coffee

OUTFIT INSPIRATION

Inspiration from Zombieland

X FILM OPENING EG5 Bridget Jones's Diary

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• Medium long shot
• Central framing - rule of thirds - central protagonist
• Black taxis - providing exposition in where it is set (London/South England)
• Doesn't have hat or umbrella - provides exposition on her
• Blonde and female - possible dumb blonde stereotype / male gaze
• Tracking her - anchors her as protagonist and voice over
• Ellipses to little southern English village - stereotypically nice (now normative)
• Red telephone box to anchor where it's set 

X THEORY2 Laura Mulvey Male Gaze

The Male Gaze theory by Laura Mulvey focuses on the sexual objectification of women in media.  Click here to find out more.  

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Carroll Clover another feminist pointed out that this isn't always the case. In Slasher movies, there is a final girl.  The protagonist is almost always a teenage girl who isn't sexualised.

• argument against the male gaze
• agencing - having a sense of ownership/control 
• Clover agrees that males are more active and females are more passive however not in the horror genre due to the final girl having agency