Costume

As a group we decided that we wanted our character to portray a innocent young girl who went missing on her way home, therefore we wanted a costume that would show this innocence as well as fitting with the time period that we wanted to focus on.  As we wanted the costume to look like it had come from the focused time period (1970) we wanted a dress that was colourful and fitted the decade of the 70’s. we decided that as we didn’t have a large budget for our film we would go to our local charity shops to find the costume, we also thought that we would get the desired type of costume in these shops rather than retail shops. We brought 2 dresses, one black and one blue with yellow flowers, we decided we would photograph our character in both dresses, however the blue one really was what we all had in mind for our character to wear. The blue dress however was a size 20 and our character is a size 8 therefore we had to use safety pins and the belt on the dress to make it fit her, however I believe the length of the dress was perfect as even though it was slightly long for our model it could trail in the mid which made the dress look older.  


Costume 1:
The first costume that we brought was aplain black silk dress that we thought looked like a nightie. Once our model tried it on we decided it wasn’t suitable for our character as it was short and modern and shower her as more of a young adult rather than a child which wasn’t what we wanted out character to portray. The dress was also very dark, which contrasted with her hair and complexsion (after we did her make-up)  

Costume 2:

Our second costume was a light blue dress with a yellow floral pattern which was a size 20. However once our model tried it on it fitted her better than we thought it would- even though she is a size 8- we had to use some safety pins it pin it tighter at the back. As a group we all agreed that this dress was perfect for what we wanted our costume to look like as it was innocent and fitted the decade of the 70’s. The colours in this dress (light blue and yellow) are normally associate with children, innocence and summer. The usual costume for the ‘horror child’ is usually a long white dress as again this portrays innocence therefore our choice of costume slightly brakes the boundaries of usual horror films. The colours of the costume were brilliant as the pale colours contrasted so well with our characters black hair and pale face. overall we decided that this dress was perfect for our cotume and therefore decided that this would be our FINAL DRESS.

 

However it had been raining the week before we filmed out on location therefore the field and the forest we filmed in was very muddy and it was cold therefore we decided that we couldn’t get zuzie to be only wearing socks like in our original idea, therefore we asked her to wear some short wellies that seemed very 1970’s, however we tried to film her feet as little as possible, also the dress that we chose did a brilliant job to cover them up.