Costume

         I have not contacted the people I need as actors to see if they are willing to act, but I think I should come up with a general idea for a costume now. Costuming is vital to the tone and progression of a movie. It helps to develop whatever kind of scene you are trying to make. It helps to convey a characters personality or their job and sometimes even importance. Costumes are there in a movie to help the audience understand and believe and sometimes theorize what a characters life was before the movie started.

                                                                Examples of costumes in movies

       In the movie The Dark Knight costumes were essential in developing the personality of both characters in different ways. In Batman's case, the suit is meant more for his job, which is to fight crime. His suit allows him to blend into the darkness and launch attacks as well as get away without detection. It also is meant to show how batman is a more private person and more darker in nature since his suit is darker compared to most superheroes.

        The Joker's costuming choices are chosen for an entirely different reason than job performance. The two shades that the Joker wears are meant to be opposites. In this case, his clothing is meant to show off his personality and what to expect of him. It helps to create the overall tone of insane that already surrounds his character. Different from batman, his clothing is more to accentuate his personality rather than make his job easier, however both are needed to create the tone of the story.

     

   For my film, I would like to take an approach similar to the Dark Knight where some characters wear clothes based on their job and some characters wear clothes to reflect their personality. In the first part of my opening, the man who is carrying the briefcase, I would want him to have black colored jacket with a black shirt inside with glasses because when people want to blend in they usually wear darker color clothing and glasses to conceal their face. This is to send a message to the audience that he is doing something secret and important. 

        The person who kidnaps and steals the briefcase from the man should also wear something darker like a suit with a round black hat to signal he is a henchman. I do not if any of my actors have a black or brown suit with a white shirt, but ideally that is what the henchman is wearing. This is also clothing to signify his job as a henchmen and to signal to the audience he is not the main villain and is just a hired gun.

For the last person in the scene, their clothing is meant to reflect their personality. This is the person that gets the call that someone needs help and is presumably an ex-agent. It should reflect who he is as a person and what his life is like. Since I want to also portray him as a little listless and lifeless, I would also want him to be wearing dark clothing, but more casual. Instead of a jacker or suit just a plain black T-shirt. This costume choice is meant to send a message that the person is likely going through a troubled period in his life at the time he gets the text message.