NATURAL CONTENT CREATION AND FILM MAKE-UP CREATIVITY IN NIGERIA: A PERSPECTIVE OF MO ABUDU’S BLOOD SISTER'S PLAY
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https://doi.org/10.60787/aasd.vol3no1.88Keywords:
Creativity, Film, Illusions, Makeup-Design and RealismAbstract
The need for believable illusion in film has made filmmakers to rethink the reliance on natural science for content creation, following the massive patronage of foreign films over the indigenous conceived to be more proximal to life. This is an indication that the circumstance of illusion is made more believable in foreign films than the local subgenres. Drawing from the tenets of realism in content analysis methodology, this paper dissects Mo Abudu’s Blood Sisters with intention of unraveling the realistic illusions in its makeup. Findings show that a film is a piece of creativity art made to adhere to thelogic of human reasoning. Makeup in film can be used to substantiate the believable factors in the period the film is made, the approximated age for each actor, the emotional state of the actors and the dramatic actions that require special spectacle. In Blood Sisters, the use of eye-lashes, nails, hairdo, congeal-blood, and facial expression has situated the time; cosmetics is
used to delineates the old from the young and to establishes the actors’ mindset, presenting the illusions as a slice of life. The paper concludes that makeup should be done in precision with the logic of nature, taking cognizance of the human biology and mindset for cardinal human emotions as established by natural science. This will make arts to be scientific. Makeup requires insight to harness artistic illusions in the logic it requires towards promoting film making as creativity made
from precision of scientific order for human reform.
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