Confluence of costume and make up in defining communisim via independent documentary / Mohd Nor Shahizan Ali ...[et al.]

The usage of costume and make-up to convey the message of an independent documentary is seen as an added value for audiences to digest the producers’ idea. Using an independent documentary ‘The Last Communist (2006)’(TLC) work of Amir Muhammad, this study discusses the ‘reading’ of costume and make-...

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Main Authors: Shahizan Ali, Mohd Nor, Mohamed Salim, Neesa Ameera, Mohd Khalis, Faryna
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Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kedah 2021
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spelling my.uitm.ir.474202022-06-01T12:29:58Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47420/ Confluence of costume and make up in defining communisim via independent documentary / Mohd Nor Shahizan Ali ...[et al.] Shahizan Ali, Mohd Nor Mohamed Salim, Neesa Ameera Mohd Khalis, Faryna GT Manners and customs Customs relative to public and social life The usage of costume and make-up to convey the message of an independent documentary is seen as an added value for audiences to digest the producers’ idea. Using an independent documentary ‘The Last Communist (2006)’(TLC) work of Amir Muhammad, this study discusses the ‘reading’ of costume and make-up based on the cultural, ideology and technological narrative message. The costume and make-up are highly posed and are set in descriptive meaning to make them relevant across the globe. They represent actual places or tragedy, and they document witness, which symbolically represents moods such as ‘contentment’ and ‘freedom’. This study implied a focus group discussion with eight informants (final year undergraduate students comprising three boys and five girls studying at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) whom have watched ‘The Last Communist (2006)’. The topic of discussion is focused only on the costume and make-up. It is debatable that costume and make-up reading cannot be described adequately in formal terms only. Rather, they are considered to be visual representations of metaphorical thoughts or concepts and the changing of time and mass. The implication will then be the ability to add more natural presentation and make the independent documentary more appealing. This study suggests the selection of costume and make-up by a producer that represents cultural and technological elements and how they have affected the reading of the post-independence group, thereby making this independent documentary as a byproduct quietly injecting the historiography and the struggle of the communists Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kedah 2021 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47420/1/47420.pdf Confluence of costume and make up in defining communisim via independent documentary / Mohd Nor Shahizan Ali ...[et al.]. (2021) Voice of Academia (VOA), 17 (1). pp. 232-242. ISSN 2682-7840 https://voa.uitm.edu.my/
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topic GT Manners and customs
Customs relative to public and social life
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Customs relative to public and social life
Shahizan Ali, Mohd Nor
Mohamed Salim, Neesa Ameera
Mohd Khalis, Faryna
Confluence of costume and make up in defining communisim via independent documentary / Mohd Nor Shahizan Ali ...[et al.]
description The usage of costume and make-up to convey the message of an independent documentary is seen as an added value for audiences to digest the producers’ idea. Using an independent documentary ‘The Last Communist (2006)’(TLC) work of Amir Muhammad, this study discusses the ‘reading’ of costume and make-up based on the cultural, ideology and technological narrative message. The costume and make-up are highly posed and are set in descriptive meaning to make them relevant across the globe. They represent actual places or tragedy, and they document witness, which symbolically represents moods such as ‘contentment’ and ‘freedom’. This study implied a focus group discussion with eight informants (final year undergraduate students comprising three boys and five girls studying at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) whom have watched ‘The Last Communist (2006)’. The topic of discussion is focused only on the costume and make-up. It is debatable that costume and make-up reading cannot be described adequately in formal terms only. Rather, they are considered to be visual representations of metaphorical thoughts or concepts and the changing of time and mass. The implication will then be the ability to add more natural presentation and make the independent documentary more appealing. This study suggests the selection of costume and make-up by a producer that represents cultural and technological elements and how they have affected the reading of the post-independence group, thereby making this independent documentary as a byproduct quietly injecting the historiography and the struggle of the communists
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author Shahizan Ali, Mohd Nor
Mohamed Salim, Neesa Ameera
Mohd Khalis, Faryna
author_facet Shahizan Ali, Mohd Nor
Mohamed Salim, Neesa Ameera
Mohd Khalis, Faryna
author_sort Shahizan Ali, Mohd Nor
title Confluence of costume and make up in defining communisim via independent documentary / Mohd Nor Shahizan Ali ...[et al.]
title_short Confluence of costume and make up in defining communisim via independent documentary / Mohd Nor Shahizan Ali ...[et al.]
title_full Confluence of costume and make up in defining communisim via independent documentary / Mohd Nor Shahizan Ali ...[et al.]
title_fullStr Confluence of costume and make up in defining communisim via independent documentary / Mohd Nor Shahizan Ali ...[et al.]
title_full_unstemmed Confluence of costume and make up in defining communisim via independent documentary / Mohd Nor Shahizan Ali ...[et al.]
title_sort confluence of costume and make up in defining communisim via independent documentary / mohd nor shahizan ali ...[et al.]
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kedah
publishDate 2021
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47420/1/47420.pdf
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