Costumes

Costumes are a vital tool of representation. They will further portray a character and give you an idea of what kind of person the character is.

For my security guard, he has two costumes; one as his fantasy self and one in his uniform. Now in his ‘fantasy self’ he is a mysterious secret agent and therefore is dressed smartly and in black. Although I only wanted to change his regular security guard costume slightly because this shows that he is not that far away from him dream self and he is trying to conform to this fantasy person.

The ‘fantasy’; costume consists of black trousers, white shirt with a black top, black shoes and black sunglasses. The reason that I had chose everything to be black was that I wanted this character to be mysterious and have a concealed identity. The colour black stereo typically represents mystery and concealment. This is further represented through the sunglasses as the audience cannot see the eyes and the whole face giving that sense of mystery further. With his ordinary costume you can see the clear representation of a security guard. He is wearing a white shirt, black tie, black trousers and black shoes. This is a clear representation of a security guard and also as he is dressed very smartly and formally which could represent that he is a very tidy and self proud man. Stereotypically these kinds of people can tend to be rather un-cool and this is evident when he sees a fantasy of himself as a security guard.

The costume of Jamie and Steve is going to be you stereotypical ‘thug’. They will be wearing big hooded tops, tracksuit bottoms and flat peak caps. This, twinned with the setting would create the perfect representation to the audience before they even know they are dealing drugs. Furthermore, the hooded tops represent that they are concealing their identity with makes the audience suspicious about what they are doing and therefore trigger the thought that they are ‘thugs’ or ‘yobs’.

I wanted the girl, Charlotte, to be represented as a normal, average woman. I want to give the effect that this could be anyone and give a sense of reality to the movie. This will be done by giving her a costume that she would wear on any occasion. Giving this sense of reality allows the audience to engage more with the movie as it seems more believable.


Character costume
Jamie Hammond (Thug)
• Hooded top
• Jeans
• Trainers
• Flat peak cap
Steve Widger (Drug Dealer)
• Hooded top
• Tracksuit bottoms
• Trainers
• Flat peak cap
Lewis Holliday (Security Guard Fantasy)
• Sunglasses
• Tie
• White shirt
• Black trousers
• Black shoes
• Black jumper
• Belt
• Watch
Lewis Holliday (security Guard)
• White shirt
• Black trousers
• Tie
• Belt watch black shoes
Charlotte Bees (women 1)
• Coat
• Jeans
• Top
• trainers
• jewellery