Post on costume ideas - what the look is

George Watkins

For our film opening will have around 6-7 characters involved in it and they will be required to wear costumes and uniforms to look in character and make what happens in our opening more believable and realistic.

o   Police costumes (X2)

We need 2 police men costumes (British) as in our film opening we open at a murder investigation where police officers will be on site to help try and solve the crime and calm the situation down. The type of police costume we want isn’t the police with bright florescent jackets but ones with an ordinary suit with a police vest and hat as this is the cheaper option yet it will still look affective or the option to have a police pullover jumper with a checker tie and police hat as this option also we feel is a good one to make our characters look as best as they can.

 

o   Dust sheet (for dead person)

This option is rather straight forward, we don’t particularly want the viewers to see a death in the opening scene so we feel having the dead character covered up is a good option and the best way to cover them up is with a white sheet which we could make out of a dust sheet, bed sheet, etc. another option we have is the classic white chalk mark around the body however with the locations we want to use this isn’t an option.

 

o   Detective uniform (X1)

For this character I and the group have decided to go for the stereotypical detective with a hat, long coat and a suit, it is important that we may this character look as much like a detective as we can due to the confusion that may come with this character if he was only to be in a suit and the viewers may think this character is an ordinary person.  

 

o   Forensic scientist uniform (X2)

A classic character found at an investigation scene is a forensic scientist who are usually analysing the crime scene for evidence and investigating the dead body, these characters are relatively easy to spot as they have quite unique costumes with the plain white overalls and blue face mask and blue rubber gloves.

 

o   Member of public (Runner)

The member of public is the person in the film who first finds the body and will be dressed in some kind of sports outfit or something you would expect someone to go running in so for example a thin T-shirt and jogging bottoms of any colour however for our film we would like a black costume for the runner, similar to the picture on the right for the example of the type of costumes we are looking for below.  

 

 

These ideas will help us when creating our film opening as we can get a feel of what we want  our characters to look like and how to make these characters look as best as they can buy supplying similar costumes to the ones seen in this post.