In this post I will be talking about the costume research.
We have to consider costume design whether it is regular clothing or not each characters costume has an element of mise en scene, which defines the character and allows you to deduce there personality and there habits from the way they appear. After all you will be judging there character based on their looks before they even come up with dialogue.
We have to consider costume design whether it is regular clothing or not each characters costume has an element of mise en scene, which defines the character and allows you to deduce there personality and there habits from the way they appear. After all you will be judging there character based on their looks before they even come up with dialogue.
For our film we have a man named Olly
Brown and a woman, Faith Williams both quite young being early 20’s applying
for a job interview but the woman is late for this interview. So with that
basic information we can come up with a costume plot for this character.
Faith has been described as being
charismatic, well-presented young woman who isn't aware that this job
opportunity is going to change her life. so with this you can deduce that she
is proud in her appearance and has a sense of symmetry. The most significant
characteristic is that she is unaware of the impact this job may have on her
life.
This is a good example for a female
characters costume in our movie, her outfit has an element of symmetry that
would be expected in an interview, which gives a true professional impression
and will compliment the personality of the character. However this film has two
parallel versions of Faith one of faith being on time for her interview and the
other is of her being late for the interview. Since the former has been already
looked at, we will look at the latter. from the fact that she is late we can
induce that she is going to be particularly messy with her appearance , however
this is probably not going to be shown consistently because of her personality
trait of being well presented, rather her appearing messy at the start and by
the time she leaves her house she is tidy.
Olly does not have a much information
on him but we can say that he he may have similar traits to Faith, since they
are going for the same job. so again a clean pressed suit may be appropriate or
just a long sleeve shirt and a tie will suffice. On the train scene however he
may be doing something else other than the job interview so casual clothes may
be acceptable.
In the next post I will be talking about props research.
