Coraline - Workshop 4

Creating the illusion of the Other Mother

Other Mother's Evolution:

-Hands change

-Edges sharps

-Gets taller

-Changes every time we see her gradual

-Clothes change

Other Mother 1: What her real mum wears

-Comfortable 'mum' clothes

-Grey/black-hint of red

-Rounder, curves, warm

Other Mother 2: Darker clothes-red, purple, black

-Bit taller

-Heads less round

-Subtle change

-Sharp-head, apron

Other Mother 3: Head

-Proportions changing

-More skin-short-sleeves and dress

-Red/black

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

-layers of dress like a beetle

Other Mother 4: Hair pointy

-All black excepted shoes

-Skinner and taller

-Angular limbs

-Long neck

-doesn't look like the real mother

Other Mother 5: No nose, no skin-skeletal

-Many legs like a spider

-Clothes are barely there and all ripped

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

-Cold light, green filter

The directer effectively uses 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 begging and net shoes. This gradually changes over the course of the film. Her head becomes less round and more pointy, her clothes become darker and she exposes 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 that 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 scene 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 demon-like spider who is evil and tries to steal children souls through their eyes.