Costuming Research

Costuming Drafting and Research

Colour

There is only one character in the opening scene of our film, thus leaving us only one costume to think about.
In the end we decided to use all black clothing for the costume. Black is usually associated with formality, mystery, death and evil, which is all closely relevant to the opening scene. The colour black is also associated with the unknown and usually has connotations which are negative. Death is usually also associated with the colour black as usually you would wear all black to a funeral. Due to the simplicity of the opening, we decided to use black and make black the only colour within the costume. Seen in the gif, the all black shoes and all black coat shows uncertainty and is mysterious. On the jacket there is a small laurel wreath which was something given to victors in ancient Greek Olympics. All black Air Max 93's are also used which had a Nike logo on it which had no relation with Jesus Christ or our genre of horror and we found that if the Nike logo was visible that it would take away from the mystery of the opening so using lighting and camera framing, we decided not to show the Nike logo.

We also thought that black would blend in well with our low-key lighting in the cellar, and would not distract the audience in the way white or pale-coloured clothing would.

Style

The jacket is very simple, with a plain cut and hood - typically associated with the teenage generation. We wanted a costume that would not be distracting, as the protagonist is supposed to be representative of a 'normal' teenager.

We chose our final costume because the target audience of our film is predominately teenagers. We wanted our protagonist to be a character the audience can relate to, so we felt that it was important to dress him in stereotypically teenage contemporary clothes.