Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Costume List S1 (Atychiphobia)

Sasha Peters (1)

Sasha 1 is the petite and fragile side of Sasha Peters. She represents the "angel on the shoulder" in a sense, and never puts a foot wrong. She is the girl other girls are jealous of because she seems to be so perfect.


Sasha 1 will wear a ballet outfit consisting of a thin purple wrap skirt, pointe shoes, tight hair bun, purple leotard, and light makeup. The wrap skirt is chosen to represent her “fitting the role” and “playing the part” of the ballerina. The pale purple colour of her costume is in direct contrast to the dark attire of S2, showing that S1 is pure and fairly transparent.

The wrap skirt is chosen because it is less obvious than a large, frilly tutu. This is effective because it portrays S1 as professional and not wanting the spotlight all the time, whereas really it is her way of playing down her fear and not making it obvious by putting it in the spotlight. Wraps are also pretty much transparent so this aids to the notion of S1 portraying herself as an "open book."


Her pointe shoes are holding up her entire body wieght, showing she has a sure foundation and is secure in where she stands. They are representative of her projecting herself as higher and above the rest of the people there e.g. the other competitors and above her fear, that she is flawless and undefeatable.


The pristine ballerina bun represents the pristine nature and character of Sasha 1 and by having her be a ballerina, who have every single strand of hair and move perfect and nothing is out of place. Her pale and natural make up show that she is not covering up every single aspect with a mask, yet there still are a few things she is hiding behind, for example, her fear of failure.

 The colour pink is chosen for her make up and costume as it represents kindness, hope, and is calming. Pink is a non-violent and non-threatening color; in contrast to the dark green colours used for S2. It can represent success, conveyed by the term "everything is rosy" so it is suited for S1 as she is at an audition and would hope to be successful.


Her entire costume, including make up and hair shows us how S1 puts forward a mask of being perfect and having it all together: whereas actually, revealed at the end, we see that this is not the case.



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