Costume Design

Costume Design Decisions

Choosing a costume design that would fit our film opening genre and its plot would not be that hard, or so I thought. For the costume design, my idea is to ask for the actors/actresses to take pictures of their house clothes. This was because the film opening revolves around a poor family, and we assume that it isn’t hard to find generic plain clothing that we could then fix in order to make it look more dirty and used. Additionally, it would save our budget by a great amount as we still have to…

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Costume Fitting

After researching on the reference pictures for each character, today would be when we get to choose the options available from the actor/actress’ own clothing, as mentioned before it would save quite a bit of our budget. Surprisingly, throughout this process, I find it quite difficult to choose between the clothing options as some appear quite similar but with the help of making a list of all the advantageous…

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Make up & Effects

Given that our story revolves around domestic abuse and violence, it would only make sense for the characters, May and her mother to be more specific, to have bruises. Although I do not have experience with any form of make up, I do draw enough to understand color theory and how colors may look on the skin. So, for me at least, doing this part wasn’t necessarily hard. Despite that, I still wanted to know exactly how…

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