Times Up Planning: Costume

I was given the role of costume designer in our planning. This meant that I had to consider the characteristics of each character, as well as how we wished them to be represented to the audience, and then convey this in their clothing.

The first character that I had to consider was the antagonist of our film. I thought that whoever was playing this character should be wearing all black, as this makes them seem more mysterious. The idea was to originally have the antagonist wearing a white wolf mask. This would relate to the game that children play, called "What's the time Mr Wolf?" This creates a link between the name of our film and the main character. However, we were unable to purchase a wolf mask, and so instead we got a plain white human face mask, which we then decided to paint ourselves to make it less cliché.

When we were casting the trailer, we decided that the main protagonist should be female. This is stereotypical of the psychological thriller genre. Females are often shown as weak, and damsels in distress who need to be rescued. Gabrielle fits this stereotype of the psychological thriller genre, as she goes to the male detective to help her and give her advice. To show her femininity and vulnerability, we decided that she should be shown wearing a dress, with her hair down and nice shoes.