Multimedia Mise-en-scène Project: Robin Campbell

Multimedia Mise-en-scène Project: Robin Campbell

The goal of this activity was to create a multimedia character station that allowed visitors to fully experience a character through visuals, sounds, and tactile elements. Our group aimed to make our station engaging, creative, and immersive so that the audience could understand our character’s personality, background, and emotions without needing us to explain them directly.

Our chosen character is Robin Campbell, a 52-year-old retired singer who rarely sees her family and now spends her time babysitting neighborhood children. Robin’s life reflects both nostalgia and quiet loneliness. Through our design choices, we wanted to capture her mix of past glamour and present simplicity — the contrast between who she once was and who she is now. Our mood board included soft, faded colors like dusty rose and muted gold to symbolize her fading fame, along with photos of microphones, stage lights, old records, children’s toys, and cozy domestic objects to represent her current life.

For the setting, we created a visual of her small but warm living room — filled with mementos from her singing days: framed photos, a vintage record player, and children’s drawings on the fridge. The audio elements included gentle background music from the 1980s, the era of her youth, mixed with soft lullabies to reflect her new role caring for children. The tactile elements—such as an old silk scarf and a worn microphone—allowed visitors to feel the texture of Robin’s past and present.

In developing this character, we focused on representation through mise-en-scène: every color, object, and sound symbolized an aspect of Robin’s identity. The use of props and lighting suggested emotional distance and warmth at once, showing how Robin finds comfort in her memories while accepting her quieter present. As a group, we collaborated closely on the visuals and sound design, ensuring each element deepened the audience’s understanding. Overall, this project helped us explore how creative details can express complex emotions and bring a character’s inner world to life.