‘Pretty little liars’ is a
mystery/thriller TV drama. Set in the fictional town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania,
the series follows the lives of Spencer Hastings, Hanna Marin, Emily Fields,
and Aria Montgomery, who are four girls whose clique falls apart after the
disappearance of their queen bee, Alison DiLaurentis. One year later, they
begin receiving messages from a mysterious figure using the name "A",
who threatens to expose their secrets. At first, they think its Alison herself,
but after her body is found, the girls realize that someone else knows their
secrets—including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew. "A"
also stalked Alison, and the girls continue to discover more and more information
about "A" and Alison's disappearance—all while risking their lives.
Setting
The setting for ‘Pretty
Little Liars’ is based in what seems a ‘normal’ town. The audience see the four
main characters in surrounding that are very typical for teenage girls for
example in school, in their bedrooms and shopping malls. These setting are used
to show that the main characters are just normal people who have leaded normal
life until this drama unfolded. Also, it makes the audience able to relate to
the main characters as the most of the audience are teenage girls. However,
there are scenes where the main characters go to dark, spooky and abandoned
settings for example a haunted house, a graveyard and an old playground. These
are used when they are confronted with ‘A’. This shows the thriller side to TV
show, as they always create tension, mystery and at times even scary.
Costume
The costumes in ‘Pretty
Little Liars’ are all very normal and typical of the characters. The four main
characters are always made to look attractive- wearing clothes that are
fashionable and flattering to their figure. This is done to show once again
that these are normal, very stereotypical teenage girls and it also create a
slight ‘sexy’ appeal, as they are four very attractive women. However, when
faced with the character ‘A’ we see the characters wear very dark clothing. This
is done to emprises the dark side to main characters life and suggests that
when faced with their problem they don’t want to standout, but what to remain mysteries
and in the shadows. Also the character ‘A’ clothing is always very dark and the
audience can never see his/her face. This is done to create mystery, add drama
and make the character seem more sinister.
Props
There are a couple of key
props uses throughout the series, all of which help build more suspense. The four main characters mobile phone always
are used as this how they get messages from ‘A’. This is allows the character ‘A’
to stay a mystery as the audience don’t know how the text message are being
sent or who sending them. Also it helps emprise that these are normal teenage
girls. Another key props is whenever
character ‘A’ is shown, he/she always has a touch with them. This helps the
character see things around him/her without people seeing them. Which create
more mystery and confusion for the audience. Also whenever ‘A’ has been
somewhere, the person writes an ‘A’ on something, so the main characters know
he/she has been there. The ‘A’ is always written in red, which represents blood
and offend a colour used in thrillers. This makes the character ‘A’ even more
creepy and mysteries.
Lighting
As the show is set in a
normal town, the lighting is offend very natural and represents the weather. This
is done to show that things like the storyline of the show don’t usually happen
and it makes the scene where the character are confronted with ‘A’ seem even darker
because it shouldn’t happen in a town like its set in. So this means that in
darker, scarier scene in the show the lighting is dark and offend hard to make
out what going on exactly. This is done to add more tension as the audience can’t
tell who there and what is going to happen.
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