Character Costume Designs

To create our character costume designs we used a website called Polyvore which enabled us to choose specific clothing items from an online inventory. It's extremely easy to use, delivers our message in an instant visual style and allows us to pick every detail of our character's persona along with providing us an extensive prop list that we need to plan prior to shooting.

Thoughts when designing Blake's outfit were centered around ideas of portraying her as glamorous, bold, sophisticated and seductive because we want to present her with traits of a femme fatale character. This outfit could also represent our target [female] audience, making them feel directly addressed as they can relate to what Blake is wearing and ultimately feel more at threat as a result.

When designing 'The Husband's' outfit, we were aware he has quite a minor role in comparison to Blake, but we wanted their personalities to match, to represent a realistic married couple. As we are going down the route of having a modernised 1940s glamour theme, we wanted him to look sleek, presentable and attractive. Yet we didn't want him to look too business like, as he is the opposition to the 'hustling city of London'.

Mia is the second identity of Blake. We wanted to make sure there was a stark contrast between the two characters to make sure the audience don't get confused, and are aware of her identity transformation. Glamour and sophistication is kept in tact, with the addition of a black dress, coat and hat to represent Saussure's semiotics of danger, death, manipulative, secretive and shady personality. Black also means Mia can walk by unnoticed, hiding within the shadows, camouflaging in the monochrome film noir filter or diffuse into the night sky of London.

The additional character, the Private Investigator, needs to be presented as smart to reflect his job and respected status. His outfit contrasts with The Husbands thus reinforcing a heirachy of class/status. The colour of his suit will be neutral as he is not one of the main characters. His props will involve a brief case or a folder containing the 'exhibits' which are the bank statements and letters of 'evidence' to show The Husband. He will also have an Apple Mac laptop on which he uses to show CCTV footage. The laptop further stresses his highly paid job and professionalism.