Costumes

When looking for costumes Frankie and I had thought about the types of characters we wanted. Based on the genre of our film, a mystery/thriller, the costumes have to match the genre. Therefore it was essential to consider the type of outfit needed for each of the characters in the film. After knowing what type of characters we were looking for, we then searched on images from the search engine, Google. We also looked through magazines as an extent research for costumes.

We also decided to create a costume section on the mood board, where all our ideas were displayed and well planned out. Also when planning we considered costumes on both gender as it wasn’t confirmed on who would get the role. Hence why, the costume section includes the female hair designs, top and jeans. However our final planning included all males as shown below;
Antagonists – black suit
This outfit doesn’t give out their characteristics. The black suit keeps their identity hidden. It gives the audience no insight of what this person maybe. Therefore I think their outfits matched with the genre – mystery/thriller as the film left the two men mysterious.
Two detectives –Black cost & trousers
We decided to dress them in black although they were quite similar to the two bad men. It was quite difficult to think about the detectives, as they were also the main characters. But on the other hand, the characters outfit made then look professional and the film more serious.
Ordinary boy – Normal top and jeans
We didn’t want the audience to judge the character and bring first impressions of his image; therefore the film made his image bring out his identity as normal and dressed him in a simple outfit. We wanted him to dress ordinary because when action is taken place in the film, the audiences cannot understand why the boy had been kidnapped until the end therefore the film is playing the genre (mystery).
Also to make sure that we had the right idea of costumes, Frankie and I did extent research on mystery/thriller films. To give us an idea of what type of costumes are used, these are the lists of films that we looked at,
- Bad boys
- Men in black
- Se7en
- Sin city
- Gran Torino
- Hancock