ABSTRACT

This project focuses on how costume and makeup communicates in Nigerian Home video film using a home video titled EFUNSETAN ANIWURA directed by Tunde Kelani as a case study, how the director uses costume and makeup in communicating the actors characters and the message of the film. This project also focuses on how costume and makeup helped in enhancing visual aesthetics and semiotic of performance. This project also seek to call the attention to effectiveness and importance of costume and makeup in Nigerian home video film, and also for directors, makeup artist, costumier should accord greater important to them.