Closer look into costumes

Closer look into costumes

Choosing costume for our opening sequence may have only been a small part of what we had to think about however we did have to take into consideration what the teenagers in our opening sequence would be wearing in the woods. We had to take into consideration the fact that we were in the woods at night so the characters will have to be wearing fairly warm clothes for practical reasons as well as continuity reasons. Although it may be a small element of the make up of a film but in essence it can be a very useful tool. For example some films have such memorable costumes that they contribute to the success of the film and also possibly popularity. For example:

• Christian Bale's costume in batman begins as 'Batman'.
• Johnny Depp's costume in Charlie and the chocolate factory as 'Willie Wonka'

For the actors we wanted to keep it simple and have them wearing their own clothes to allow a low budget and to help the actors be more comfortable. But we did give them guidelines as to how to dress for the scene taking into consideration the weather and the time of year. Our suggested items of costume to the actors were very normal clothes of current teenagers to build a connection with the audience. For example:

So we decided to use dark and plain colour for our actors to use but have also decided that they will be wearing very common clothes with nothing out of the ordinary, we believe that this will help build a connection with the audience.