Fourth Blogpost

The topic that I intend to talk about in my essay is about the background, effects and the appearance of characters in Melodramatic films. I am not yet sure whether I will speak about one specific film or various ones. A source that I found which goes well with my topic is Peter Brook's book "The Melodramatic Imagination". It talks about how characters in a melodramatic movie keep things hidden from everybody around them. This ties in with my topic because when a character is keeping something hidden it can be seen by non-verbally using facial expressions, appearance and background. An example would be if in a movie a character is pregnant and is keeping it a secret it can be portrayed by what they are wearing how they are acting like maybe they vomit quite often which clues in the audience that there may be a pregnancy news. These non verbal ways of communicating clues in the audience on the events which are to come. Brook's book talks about Melodrama and exactly how it is seen in movies and what makes a movie melodramatic. This information is a reliable and useful source because it focuses on Melodrama and the aspects of it. This book analyzes Melodrama and so therefore doesn't seem biased. I intend to use this source as a way to explain of nonverbal factors in movies can be used as a form of communication with the audience.