Costume

When planning the opening of our film, we found that costume helps to build the image of the audience of a character by subtly showing them their attitude and purpose. 

For our main character, we have chosen simplistic every-day style clothes. These ordinary clothes show that this character is an ordinary man with a simple lifestyle. Doing this makes the audience assume he is a character who is out of place in a cruel and brutal world, as he is a typical and average man.  

In our last scene of our opening, our protagonist is shown after being beaten up by his kidnappers. This has not been explicitly said, however, the audience can insinuate this due to the make-up we will use on our actor to show a black eye and several cuts and bruises. The purpose of this is to show that he is vulnerable in this moment, further emphasizing the idea that he is an amiable man who is caught up in this cruel world. 

However, the beginning scene shows a character who is later revealed to be the twin brother of our main character (same actor as a protagonist), so will wear a different style of clothes. This character is dark and intriguing, so to reflect this we have decided to make this character wear dark clothing to portray his cynical and thick-skinned but ultimately cowardly demeanor. 

For our female character, we haven chosen a tight fitting dress. All we see of this character in our opening is their silhouette, so having her in a dress establishes to the audience that she is female. We have also taken inspiration from the classic femme fatale convention of film noir, this character meant to immediately appear seductive and feminine. Doing this makes the audience immediately question whether she is to be trusted, as her cryptic entrance could make her appear as an antagonist, further assumed by her femininity and seductiveness.