With costume and make-up, our group produced a hair, make-up & costume list for our actors/actresses and their characters in order to clearly indicate how we wanted the characters to appear in the opening, and what their clothing would connote about their personality.
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Our costume list was a big help with characterisation, and also detailed our
references, which not only helped establish why we chose a certain look, but
also exactly how we wanted the characters to come across. |
We set about with our main task of representing our main character, and looked at other shows which had represented the teenage archetype. When researching, our main references which we noted were Skins and The Inbetweeners – two British TV shows with teenaged characters. Therefore, Katie from Skins was, in our view, a good reference for Ella, as she is represented as a teen character aspiring for popularity – including through her clothing & make-up, whilst characters such as Simon & Carly from The Inbetweeners were also chosen as good inspiration for typical teenage clothing & make-up.
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We felt that other British productions with characters of a similar age
would help with our decisions on clothing, hair and make-up |
Upon reflection, I believe that whilst we collected decent reference points and took these into account well, I feel that having learned the importance of connotation – even with small decisions; we could have perhaps improved the sequence's characterisation by making decisions such as hairstyle more clear not only visually in our opening, but by detailing it more carefully on our cast list.
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