Recently George and I have discussed the importance of costumes in our opening sequence. So far we have a pretty good idea of what we want from the costumes. We are going to have the actors wearing clothes that the audience should associate as being middle-classed teenager’s clothes. This mean we will be using hoodies, jeans and plain t-shirts. We think that the hoody idea for the costume is useful as it can be used to hide the faces of the extras so that only the people’s faces tat are visible will cut to montages of life previous to the incident. For this we are also going to be having so mud/dirt on the clothes. This will help to identify the characters as having a struggle in the wood, and when cutting to a montage the mud/dirt will not be on the clothes and will help show that there is a time change.
We have also been thinking about make-up and think will be using very little, but may use some blood effects e.g. blood capsules which we have found work well after experimenting with, and can purchase easily and cheaply at a known store. We also may put some dirt on the faces of the corpses to again illustrate a struggle, and may whiten their faces and darken their eyes to further connote that they are dead. These effects will also be useful for the time changes as they will be gone when cut to a montage.
We have informed our confirmed actors and extras that we may be doing this and have no problem with the make-up or the costume ideas, and are eager to participate.
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