Male and Female costume ideas

We want our character to wear natural, realistic clothing as this will enable her to be more relatable, and believable to audiences. The clothing our character wears must also be appropriate to her lifestyle, as a characters costume can portray a lot about them. The costume tells the audience of the characters class, upbringing, personality, emotions etc so I researched other characters from other films costume in order to analyse whether I felt the costume was effective, helping me when choosing our own characters costume.



Mia from the film 'Fish Tank', her costume is effective because it clearly represents her personality, it tells us a lot about her class and upbringing, and suggests hobbies she might undertake.



Liam from the film 'Sweet sixteen', this costume is also effective, as it tells us much as before.



Cecilia from the film 'Atonement', much like the first two a lot can be told about this character through her costume, in this case particularly class and upbringing.

Our character comes from a middle class, working family. She attends an ordinary secondary school, lives in a three bedroom house and as the audience discovers has been raised by dysfunctional, abusive parents although it is not obvious to the outside world. Therefore our character should wear average clothing, jeans and a simple tee-shirt in order to look as realistic, and believable as possible. We will need to consider colour, or in our characters case lack of it. As our character has low self-esteem and is constantly abused and mis-treated the colour palate for her costume should be bland, simple colours that are not cliche, and will allow our character to blend into everyday life, which is exactly what she wants.


                     Male                                                         

Female

These costumes do not represent the colours or styles we may use, but are just an example of the ordinary clothing our character will wear.