Task 9: Costume and Make-Up

Costume: 

Our inspiration for our main character Sienna's costume comes from Angelina Jolie in 'Salt' and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana' as they are both crime/action films that have a female leading role very much like our trailer will be we thought that they were the perfect inspiration. As in both films both main characters are mainly dressed in black to camouflage themselves, this is where we got the idea to dress 'Sienna' in all black or a camel colour trench coat.  In our trailer Sienna will be wearing a trench coat in dark colours such as a camel/black, as dark colours reflect danger, and the trench implying a mystery aspect, this furthers the genre of our film. The dark colours also reflect on the way that Sienna lives her life, she is a very dark dangerous character who holds a lot of secrets that will do a lot of damage if they are found out. The darkness shows the audience how 
there is never a dull moment in the life Sienna has chose to live, it is full of action and crime. In 'Salt' and 'Colombiana' we feel it is important how they wear black and large coats as we feel this shows power, the colour black represents the colour of the hidden, the secretive and the unknown, creating an air of mystery which reflects on the storyline of both films. As in Colombiana she is keeping a secret from the police and trying to get revenge for her mother and father's death and in Salt she is trying to protect the USA by destroying past of her past which she got away from that has come back to haunt her.  Another reason we decided that black would be the main colour of costume in our film is because due to recent surveys it is known that a person is seen more aggressive and frightening when wearing all black as it reflects there dark mysterious personality and thoughts. We feel that in our trailer this will allow the people Sienna is against to know they should be worried and she is a vital enemy of theirs.

This was our final costume choice, the trench coat looks similar to a Burberry Trench coat which is a iconic fashion statement which was an essential during times of war and violence. The Burberry trench coat looks very professional and sophisticated, but also very mysterious. Although we would have liked the coat to be black, we feel as if the costume still works well. The trench coat with the black bag with metal handles also we feel looks very professional and makes the audience question what is in the bag. The black bag also brings in the colour scheme we wanted to stick too of black. Megan was also wearing black jeans and casual shoes which contrasts with the top half of the costume, the black jeans and trainers make it clear to the audience that she is a professional spy, but is constantly ready to take action on anything that is going on around her. Although we would have liked our actor to wear black boots, we found that this was quite an unrealistic stereotype that woman in action films have, as in reality no one could really take action on a criminal in black boots. 

Make- Up: 

In our trailer we have decided that main character Sienna will have very natural make-up as it is an action/crime/horror film we understand that she as a character would not be very bothered about applying lots of dramatic make-up everyday so the natural look portrays her character greatly.
An inspiration for our natural make-up comes from Cara Delevingne in 'Paper Towns' although this isn't an action/ crime film her make-up shows how ideally how we would like ours to look in our trailer. This gives her a distinctive look, showing off her natural beauty.
Although we are going for natural make-up we have decided that she will only be wearing the essential makeup such as foundation and mascara, as this will be the only obvious make-up on Sienna we feel as if it is necessary as it reflects her having secrets and her mysterious persona.

Although we have put the fake blood on Sienna's hands in the prop section as it represents what has just taken place in the trailer, and how death or drama has just occurred, we do still feel it partly comes under the make-up section. We come to the decision of using it to create drama and to get a reaction from the audience, making them aware of the genre. We also decided that Megan should defiantly just have her hair tied up, as this shows that she needs to have her hair away from her face to show how she is ready for action. We feel as if the hair tied up away from the face looks very professional and separates her from the stereotype that all woman care about is their appearance.