Styling Plan + Analysis

 This is the styling plan and analysis for component 3. This blog was done by me (Cassie).

༘˚⋆𐙚｡ Styling Plan + Analysis ⋆𖦹.✧˚

Cassie’s Media Dictionary 📖 𓂃🪶

Definition by Oxford Languages

STYLING

/ˈstaɪlɪŋ/

noun | TRADEMARK

the way in which something is designed.

⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔ ꒰ ᧔ෆ᧓ ꒱ ⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔

What does STYLING mean in a media context?

Styling can refer to the way something is carefully designed to communicate certain identities, emotions or connotations through visuals. Styling is basically mis-en-scene, but more focused on clothing, make-up, hairdos, and fashion in general. Styling can support branding by reinforcing a specific image or persona, while creating meaning in music videos (e.g. comfortable clothes + dripping mascara can imply crying and show sadness). This mis-en-scene can then be used to attract the target audience. 

⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔ ꒰ ᧔ෆ᧓ ꒱ ⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔

STYLING PLAN

We already have certain scenes prepared in our filming schedule, which meant we had to find outfits and style Kellie properly in order to create the connotations we wanted to support our dominant reading and attract our target audience. To gain more ideas, I mostly looked on Pinterest for inspiration. I then decided to create a pinterest board where any of my members or myself could add pins and organize them into certain sections to create a sort of mood board and also to generate ideas. This makes it easy for us to easily refer back to our Pinterest board if we were confused on the mis-en-scene of a certain scene. Below, is our Pinterest board, where I’ve created two sections for our main star’s styling and fashion, along with her love interest’s as well.

THE LINK: https://pin.it/7DpjkqZRh

⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔ ꒰ ᧔ෆ᧓ ꒱ ⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔

STYLING ANALYSIS

⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔ ꒰ ᧔ෆ᧓ ꒱ ⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔⏔

REFLECTION:

This blog was really fun to do since I am very interested in fashion. In this task, my role was to plan and analyze the styling for our project by creating Pinterest boards and organizing them to support our intended connotations and target audience. A problem I faced was ensuring that the outfits and overall styling clearly matched the emotions and narrative of each scene, while also staying consistent across the project. I wanted to find a balance between a consistent aesthetic, yet different meanings in each scene, which was hard to achieve. I also had a very hard time embedding my Pinterest board as no one outside my team could access the board even though it is public. To solve the first problem, I gathered inspiration from Pinterest very often and collaborated with my team to organize ideas into sections, making it easier to visualize and make better choices. My team members also had access to the board, meaning they could add their own ideas so every idea could be seen. To solve the next problem, I removed all my members from the Pinterest board and it finally became public, meaning it was a problem with my member’s privacy settings.  Next time, I would improve by planning the styling earlier, being more specific with each look, and testing outfits beforehand to ensure they effectively convey the intended meaning. I also should make sure if the actor has clothes that are similar to the ones in my plan.