Costume Research

In this post I shall be assessing the main characters backgrounds and personality traits in relation to what clothes they might wear. I will consider how much the characters can afford and what they would ware in different weather and places.

Main characters:



Character: BRIAN

In the short this character is often busy at work and you can also hear him listening to guitar music at work. For the short to be more immersing and believable Brian must have clothes that match his lifestyle. The music Brian likes influences the way he dresses, he could wear a t-shirt like the one in the image below. This is a simple t-shirt with a band design on showing people his passion for rock bands and in this case David Bowie. T-shirts are also very casual and youthful so if we dress our actors in them it would accentuate their youthfulness.

If Brian was seen wearing a large coat like the one pictured below it would make him seem to important and powerful and also make him look older. This style of coat is more expensive so would not suit the character because he could not afford it.

Brian would more likely if he were a real person rather than a subject of our imagination wear something more casual and that also reflects his personality more that is a music lover. The coat shown below is a leather jacket. This is more of a alternative style choice which matches his alternative choice in music. It is also a more youthful and casual design of leather jacket witch is important because there are different types that could give the wrong idea of the character.

Like the leather jacket below is still black leather but is primarily for wearing when motorbiking, this isn't one of Brian's hobby's and he isn't a sporty person so the jacket sends the wrong messages to the viewer.

Character: Karen

Karen is also young and in the age range of early twenty's, she follows the same casual dr sense ess as the character Brian, we decided this because Karen chose Brian to save her from the car and the only way she could judge if she liked him is by how he looked and what he was wearing at the time. So the two characters have their dress sense in common. We would like Karen to wear a hoody like the one shown below because it is is casual and is a girly warm colour, even though it is a hoody the yellow colour doesn't represent the young woman as a youth or a girl out to cause trouble without anyone seeing her face.