Welcome back! Today, I will present our costume research and how our characters will dress during our film opening!
Costume is a big part to the identity of each character in which, we have thought about a lot, but we'll get to that later on. Now, costume can determine the background of a person, personality of a person, lifestyle of a person and attitude of a person.
SUIT AND TIE
A suit and tie represents a formal and more sophisticated lifestyle in which the person is represented as more neat and more intelligent. Furthermore, this means that their status might be more higher compared to a person who wears a tracksuit.
EXAMPLE 'SKYFALL'
TRACKSUIT
There are two sides to this outfit, so let's talk about the first one. First of all, this outfit is seen as a very active outfit, the person wearing this represents good health by exercise and a sporty personality, in which would represent to the audience that this person is incredibly fit. However, the other side to this outfit can represent a lower class, more laid back, rebel attitude person. Basically the word 'Chav' springs to mind when you see this outfit, in which the audience can see which would allow them to suggest that the person is a rebel or in the film. to cause mischief in the film.
EXAMPLE 'GREEN STREET HOOLIGANS'
tracksuit seen first at (0:32)
GLASSES
Glasses can be worn to increase the look of intelligence of the character in which glasses are typically used to portray a nerdy character. Glasses are an easy way to differentiate social groups, having a group of teenage boys with big glasses can represent a nerd social group where as other people without these big glasses can be 'outcasts' of the group. Therefore, glasses are important when representing the overall personality of the character.
EXAMPLE 'DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 3: DOG DAYS'
Nerd first seen at (1:07)
A 'EMO' OUTFIT
This outfit comes from a sub culture in which I can happily talk a lot about. This outfit symbolises a really bad attitude towards life, education and other people around them. Grey and black is very dominant within these types of outfits in which represents an emotionless, dull, plain and rebel person.
EXAMPLE 'DONNIE DARKO'
FINAL COSTUME LIST
Next time: I will present props research and a formal props list for our main product!
