Costumes in film

Costumes

Costumes in film expresses a characters emotions and their personality. This also rubs of on the audience, since the way they see the character is how they judge the character when they first see them. You could say that first impressions are key for characters and character development in the film.

For example, if a character comes into scene with a large fury winter jacket, winter boots and sport bottoms; yet the environment is a summery hot seaside, the viewer may judge the character as a foolish self centred person that only cares about how looks. But if throughout the story we then find out that the character is actually a smart, wise and brave, then the first impressions of him/her were wrong. Either the clothing has to be changed to match up with the characters personality or the story has to be changed in order for the characters clothing to make sense. 

We took this information and used it to create our characters that match up with their clothing and personality.