Costuming

    As filming approaches, I am beginning to think about the details that often go unnoticed but are crucial to make our story believable. Costumes are a crucial aspect in filmmaking to properly portray time period, age, style, mood, etc. 

    The costuming for this piece will be simple as we are dressing teenagers to live in our current generation. The people we are dressing are teenagers living in our current generation, so half of the battle is pretty much done. My vision for costumes is simple- I want to instruct our cast to wear something casual, but not distracting. I want to keep it to mainly solid colors and possibly non-busy patterns. 

    Best of all, our cast are people who act in real life. They understand what it is to dress as a character, so Jack and I are going to give them some lee way with their costume choices. 

Some general inspiration for the cast:

 

The More Specific:

    The more prevalent costumes in this piece come from the opening scene in the diner. I’m going to have Ember and Ben dressed in something a bit more fancy, building the viewer’s belief that this was a nice, planned outing. 

    I was thinking red for Ember. Red can portray passion: wether it be in romance or rage. For her, this duality works perfectly. 

A simple, yet elegant red dress for Ember

    For Ben, something more cool-toned but still dressed up would work. Possibly a blue dress shirt. Blue is less intense than red, making for a good contrast between him and Ember, the clearly more fierce one. 

Ben's look. Way less intense, keeping it classy.

Besides those two, the costuming vision remains easy and simple for everyone else. Thank goodness.