Character and Costumes

The characters in the opening sequence are very important. They have to be able to tell the story to the audience straight away and i want to try and achieve that with my group. So we have had a meeting and brain stormed a few ideas for the main costumes for the two characters.

The females background is torn, she is scarred from her X boyfriend broken forever. The scares on her body reveal the true story from what she has been though from her past violent relationship. This scared girl alone that I wanted to represent as what she once was, not what she was turned into by this boy.
The main costume that we chose is: Scarred Girl
Boots- Represent money, a good job. Has a good sense of style and class.

We wanted her attire to be casual but so the audience can think about what she is wearing and why.
Black Skinny jeans- Casual smart, also wanting the character to look good but not to make her seem out of background.

- First costume

The costume change: Scarred Girl
This costume change is in when Charlotte gets into the 'shower scene' this worked really well as we the women's trunks on the left are waterproof and had the supported bikini which straps could be tucked under so nothing was seen on camera. We got the filming done in two days which worked out really well for and stuck to the schedule that we planned. Sticking to meetings and times to meet.

The Bikini

The trunks

- Charlotte fully in costume 2

Here we are just about to film the second half of the opening sequence. This is the shower scene and as you can see we have chosen my shower room to film in as its open space and its reflective walls. (Another post coming shortly on that) We have put a blue screen across the window as we wanted to reflect the mood of the character and in some cases the colour blue represents an uneven mood, a disturbance.

Main costume Georgina-Stalker boyfriend:

This character is first know by when Charlotte reads a letter from him saying he is coming. He is properly introduced when he comes through the front door with the dusty lighting. The dusty lighting is to show the audience the characters personality, this worked really well and the feedback we received proved that this worked. We wanted to have a dark silhouette of the character walking up the stairs to show that he only came here to do one job.

These are my white trainers which we thought would look really good in the dark. Which did, we tested them before hand in a meeting going up my stairs in the dark to see whether it worked or not. They worked really well and was really pleased with the over all effect. We wanted to get a glow effect so that the audience could see a silhouette of my shape and then a stand out of white from my trainers as i walk up the stairs. The effect worked really well and as from the audiences comments we can tell to.

These trackies are so baggy its unbelievable, they are prefect for the 'chav' x boyfriend look. They work really well with the trainers and also with the big baggy Hoody.

A Baggy oxford university jumper, we later discovered that we did have to turn this inside out because of the print on the outside did show up on the camera noticeably which was OK as we worked around this and carried on as scheduled.