As a Netherlandish cultural historian J. Huizinga said, "Recreation has become the origin for the formation of all the cultures", a culture is being created in the place where people are delighted. In the 21st century, the culture is provided to the g...
As a Netherlandish cultural historian J. Huizinga said, "Recreation has become the origin for the formation of all the cultures", a culture is being created in the place where people are delighted. In the 21st century, the culture is provided to the general public through various media thanks to the development of information, communication, and TV entertainment contents among which are leading the popular culture by reducing the differences between fiction and nonfiction through the genre of Real Variety. <Infinite Challenge>, Korea's first real variety, is a program where realistic performances take place in the form of no-script under the condition that many players, not just one player, are qualified as the MC. The character image of the player is formed through the way of performing the mission given by the PD, and among the elements which form the image, the hair style is expected to have a deep influence on superimposing the character image.
Therefore, the research's purpose is to examine the effect that the hair style image has on the character image formation, by examining the character images of 7 MCs in <Infinite Challenge>, and the significance of this study is revealed by systematically analyzing the interrelationship between the character image and the hair style image on the basis of 'Appropriate Hair Theory' proposed in 「Counseling Cut & Color」(1999) by Imai Hideo(今井英夫).
The summary and results of this research are as follows.
First, Imai Hideo divided the character and hair image into Orthodox Zone's Mannish Image and Intelligent Image, Cool Zone's Sharp Image and Modern Image, Feminine Zone's Chic Image and Elegant Image, Romantic Zone's Cute Image and Contemporary Image, Natural Zone's Casual Image and Neutral Image in 'Appropriate Hair Theory'. Conservative taste, sharp taste, modern taste, and soft taste are included as influential elements, and the hair style was expressed in the form of lozenge. The texture introduced the beeline touch as I in the characteristic shape of Alphabetic I, J, C and S, and introduced the curve type with J Curl, C Curl, S Curl according to the wave form, and the style is determined by the combination of the form and texture. In case of the color, level l of low dark color pursues the calm depth and formalizes orthodox Zone in level 5 of mid-tone, and in 5 levels of values, the colors where red, wine, and ash are strongly appeared as Cool Zone. Feminine Zone which the natural color of level 3 belongs to, a little brighter than the original hair(black) as middle level of value, is central, and the Romantic Zone is expressed with Yellow and Orange which are finished by the bright color of level 10.
Second, considering the character images of the players in <Infinite Challenge>, no change took place in Yoo Jaeseok as Orthodox Zone, Park Myeongsoo as Cool Zone, and there were profound changes in Jung Junha as Romantic Zone, Feminine Zone, Natural Zone and Cool Zone. Jung Hyeongdon was expressed as Natural Zone and Cool Zone, Noh Hongcheol as Cool Zone, HaHa as Romantic Zone, and Gil as Cool Zone. Considering the hair style images, Yoo Jaeseok was changed to Cool Zone, Orthodox Zone and Feminine Zone, Park Myeongsoo to Cool Zone, Jung Junha to Feminine Zone and Orthodox Zone, Jung Hyeongdon to Cool Zone and Orthodox Zone, Noh Hongcheol to Cool Zone and Romantic Zone, HaHa to Orthodox Zone and Cool Zone, and Gil to Cool Zone.
The results of this research showed that there are the synergic effects of the characters when the character image and hair style image correspond more, and that the change in the hair style image is an important factor of changing the character image.
We hope that this research will be able to provide the theoretical data of systematically analyzing the interrelationship between the character image and hair style image, and that an empirical study to systematize the image will constantly be made in the future.