Costume, Hair and Makeup

Due to the voxpop we had created, we felt alot more certain with what we should do with means to costume and hair/makeup. As our film opening is in a gothic era, we ahve to make the costume/ make up mise en scene as realistic as possible, but still within the brief of gothic/victorian. It is crucial that the audience believe in the story and we get the miss en scene spot on. So we researched the kind of hairstyles and dresses, and makeup that they would have worn in that era. We researched by watching some clips of movies from the same era and took down notes on the costumes, and also simple searched the internet for ideas.

HAIRSTYLES-

The actor we are using for the role of the girl in our opening has quit short hair, so this in turn affected the desicions we made on hairstyles. We thought that we should have her hair in an undo, as it would be eaiser to handle with her hair length, and was also very popular at the time we are trying to portray.
We will try and mimic the hairstyles below as we agreed that these would look the best.

MAKEUP-

As in the victorian era, make up wasn't so common, we thought that simple makeup was the way to go. Also if we did use dark makeup, her feature wouldn't  have picked up as well on camera. Because the girl is the victim in the opening, we wanted her to seem pure and innocent so that the audience would empathise with her even more. And again, examples below..

COSTUME-

The character is the film opening are both upper class, and we needed to portray this through the outfits as there is limited speech in the script. We wanted them to look as authentic as possible as use quite dark colours, as it would seem more 'gothic-y'

Woman:


Man: