التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Effective Prosthetics Artistry and Character Costuming in Nollywood Films: Challenges of the Nollywood Designers. |
| المؤلفون: |
Okafor, Kosy Anulika |
| المصدر: |
Creative Artist: A Journal of Theatre & Media Studies; 2024, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p101-117, 17p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
NOLLYWOOD, FILM costume, PROSTHETICS, CULTURAL identity, COSTUME designers |
| مستخلص: |
Over the years, studies in prosthetic artistry and costuming in Nollywood films have been used to strike the right balance between visual spectacle and narrative impact. Being that narrative coherence is essential in Nollywood's storytelling thus, these effects have helped to create a major impact on the characters' appearance and believability. Although one of the essential parts of the visual aspect of modern cinema, but the inability of the Nollywood designers to seamlessly integrate prosthetic artistry and character costuming that improves on the visual elements of Nollywood films forms the major drawback to this research study. Based on this outlook, the paper investigates prosthetics and character costuming in Nollywood video films and seeks to determine the challenges faced by Nollywood designers in achieving effective prosthetic artistry and character costuming. The paper through a critical analysis and two randomly selected Nigerian Video films- Biyi Bandele's Blood Sisters (2022), and Inawadolu Greg's Egwonga - the deadly god (2013) explores how Nollywood designers integrate prosthetics artistry and costume design within the vibrant landscape of Nollywood narratives. However, the paper discovers that Nollywood designers are faced with myriad problems such as striking a balance between spectacle and authenticity in historically informed films, budget and time constraints, lack of technical advancements and innovations, limited resources, etc. The paper therefore concludes that achieving effective prosthetics artistry and character costuming in Nollywood films will set the stage for an intriguing analysis, creativity, resourcefulness, and impacts on extravagant cultural expression and authenticity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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