Coraline: Creating the illusion of the other mother

How does the director use costume to create the other mother?

How do colour and lighting affect our view of the others mother?

Its easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar' - how does the other mother embody this saying

* Hands change

*Edges sharper

* Gets taller

* Changes every time we see her gradual

* Clothes change

How does the director use costume to create the other mother? 

Other mother 1.

1. What her Real/mum wears.

* Comfortable "mum" clothes

* Grey.black - hint of red

* Rounder, curves, warm

Other mother 2.

2. Darker clothes - red, purple, black,

- Bit taller

- Heads less round

- Subtitle change

Other mother 3. 

Head

- Proportions changing

- More skin - short sleeves & dress

- Red/black

- Dress is sharp & stiff, fits her better & shows her shape

- layers of dress like a beetle 

Other mother 4. 

Hair pointy

- All black excepted shoes

- Skinnier and taller

- Long neck

- Doesn't look like the real mother

Other mother 5. 

Not motherly anymore

No nose, no skin - skeletal

- Many legs like a spider

- Clothes are barely there and all ripped

- Very sharp - then how how thin she is, how pointed her joints are, use of metal/needle fingers

Old light, green filter

The directer effectively uses the costume to create the other mother. At the start she is dressed like a normal mother. She is wearing a white long sleeved turtle neck, black leggings and new shoes. This gradually changes over the course of the film. Her head becomes less round and more pointy, her clothes become darker and expose more skin. By the end of the film her costume is more spider like. Her body is a metal skeleton with lots of sharp angles and her clothes are black rags. The director has done this to show us what the other mother is evil and that her looks were deceiving

Colour and lighting are important in creating the other mother. When we first see her its a warm lighting with shades of yellow and orange this makes the viewer feel happy and safe. By the end of the film scenes with the other mother are dimly lit with a cold light and green and black colour palette. This is because she has turned into her real self, a deman - like spider who is evil and tries to steal childrens souls through their eyes