This is my blog for Styling for Stage Screen and Television. My first project brief is on Charles Dickens classic text, 'Great Expectations'. I am going to be researching the Victorians to enhance my knowledge of how the characters would have lived in the Victorian times. This will then give me ideas for my final shoot of Miss Havisham and Estella.
Charles Dickens
Dickens was born on 7th February 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, England. He was the second child and the Eldest son of eight children. Dickens father, who worked as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, was a spendthrift who often missmanaged thr familys money. in 1822 the Dickens family moved out of London and soon found themselves living in poverty. Charles was no longer able to attend school. His father was soon sent to debtors prison ang young Dickens aged only twelve years old was forced to go to work for several months pasting labels onto bottles. This was a painful and humiliating experience for him and the images of the factory haunted him for the rest of his life. This period of his life has given him a lot of inspiration for his famous Novels as many of the scenes are set in poverty, and also rich background, showing both parts of his life.
Dickens was born on 7th February 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, England. He was the second child and the Eldest son of eight children. Dickens father, who worked as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, was a spendthrift who often missmanaged thr familys money. in 1822 the Dickens family moved out of London and soon found themselves living in poverty. Charles was no longer able to attend school. His father was soon sent to debtors prison ang young Dickens aged only twelve years old was forced to go to work for several months pasting labels onto bottles. This was a painful and humiliating experience for him and the images of the factory haunted him for the rest of his life. This period of his life has given him a lot of inspiration for his famous Novels as many of the scenes are set in poverty, and also rich background, showing both parts of his life.
In 1832 Dickens became a reporter and by 1833 he began publishing short stories and essays. His successful career as a novelist began in 1837 with the publication of the PickWick Papers. Many of his novels have become just as famous at Great Expectatins such as A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist and David Copperfield.
Charles Dickens is known as one of the most successful and inventive English novelists of all time. During his writing career, Dickens wrote over 5 million words and created over 2,000 characters. His writing is distinct and recognisable with drama, humour and satire. His characters have been some of the most famous in the history of literacture. He tended to base his characters on the nineteenth century that tended to be in the lower economic classes in England. It was these well-defined characters that made Dickens the most popular writer of his time.
Great Expectations
In Great Expectations Pip tells his own story as an adult looking back on his younger years as a young orphan living with his older Sister, Uncle and Brother-in-law. He seems destines to become a Black smith following on from his Brother-in-law and live out his life in the march area of Kent, England. An unexpected chain of events, however thrusts him into a completely differnt life style when Miss Havisham calls for a young boy to visit her home. Pips new life becomes much more complicated than he imagined it to be, and he is forced to reevaluate his values and the values of the society in which he finds himself.
Great Expectations
In Great Expectations Pip tells his own story as an adult looking back on his younger years as a young orphan living with his older Sister, Uncle and Brother-in-law. He seems destines to become a Black smith following on from his Brother-in-law and live out his life in the march area of Kent, England. An unexpected chain of events, however thrusts him into a completely differnt life style when Miss Havisham calls for a young boy to visit her home. Pips new life becomes much more complicated than he imagined it to be, and he is forced to reevaluate his values and the values of the society in which he finds himself.
