My Character

Thanks Thinkerer for the comments and thoughts on my character and the shooting session. Here's a shot of the lady in white when first appearing:



and here's a shot of a later scene with the merry widow outift:



Nonna Hedges, the fashion designer of both outfits, saw my blog and said she is planning to update the black outift to better suit :) (She must be included in credits!)

Although these are both medium shots, it would be much better to have some really close up shots as you suggested - because all my scene was done in very far away long shot and has no emotional impact at all.

So when we fitst meet her, the Lady in White has suffered a great loss - what that was is a mystery at this stage, but it affects her so deeply she has to don an outer shell of hardness - the vulnerability we see in scene 1 is cloaked in the black "merry widow" outfit. I am thinking that the two extremes (totally vulnerable followed by totally ice-queenish) could be followed up at the end with a final scene where we see her wearing red or colour - to suggest a full narrative arc in which she comes to know and love herself again - so it is a full journey of grief, self-loathing, and then self-acceptance. It may be that she was jilted in love, it may be that her lover abandoned her, but at this stage I am more interested in the suggestion of the arc and letting people wonder and fill in the gaps for themselves. What do you think? :)