2. COSTUME CHANGES: MAIN CHARACTERS
Olivia (Amy Dunn), the main actress, undergoes
four different costume changes.
Reason being that there are scenes in which Olivia
describes events that have occurred in her school
life and so to show these events we create the
flashbacks. To make the film more realistic in terms
of its narrative, we show these events. And so
costume change is necessary.
Peter (Raman Bahra), co-actor, only has one
costume, which he used to portray a stereotypical
Homosexual boy.
3. OLIVIA BAKERS COSTUME: 1
As, in our film, we are depicting
Olivia to be a sixth form
student, we decided to go with
the sixth formers uniform. The
standard blazer, collared
blouse, trousers and black
shoes that is common.
This gives it the realistic look
and relates to the title of the film.
This costume emphasises the
sixth former look. Portrays a
professional, outgoing and
adolescence image.
This costume runs through the
entire 5 minutes of the film.
4. OLIVIA BAKERS COSTUME: 2
The next costume we decided Amy (portraying
Olivia) should wear is the P.E sports costume.
This change occurs when Olivia, on the bench
scene, has a flashback of being hit on the head
with a dodgeball.
We chose this particular costume because we
wanted emphasise that the events Olivia
reminisces, actually occurs and so we show that
they do by changing scenes to a flashback in
which she wears this costume in the situation that
she is in.
These are the basic jogging bottoms and polo shirt
which is part of the school’s P.E uniform.
The converse/trainers can’t be seen in the scene
as it is a very short cut to the flashback. But to add
to the effect of a lower school student in P.E
uniform, we had Olivia wear shoes to get the feel
of a sports student.
This helped better when filming because it helped
make the filming easier and atmosphere, realistic.
5. OLIVIA BAKERS COSTUME: 3
The next costume change occurs in the next
flashback. This is when she reminisces when
she was in year 8 and had gum stuck on her
skirt. Therefore, she is wearing a lower
school uniform costume.
And so we felt, being a younger student, to
go with the look of a little girl that wears
skirts. This is stereotypically what a young girl
would wear, emphasising her innocence and
vulnerability.
We went with a lower school uniform, collared
blouse, skirt, tights and black flat shoes. We
did not add the blazer as we wanted a
change in atmosphere, her being in a
classroom working on a table by herself with
her blazer off, elsewhere.
Another reason why we chose this costume
was to give her the comfort to feel like a year
8 student again, instead of just acting like
one, helping her act better, by playing the role
in real life.
6. OLIVIA BAKERS COSTUME: 4
The last of her costume changes is the
last of her flashbacks when she was a
year 9 student and her homosexual
boyfriend breaks up with her.
Yet again we decided not to go with the
blazer because we wanted her to look
comfortable and calm before the effect
of ‘breaking up’ had passed through
her.
The difference in her being comfort
zone is that instead of the blazer worn
by students, we gave her a ‘hoody’ to
add to the young look and to add to the
effect of different setting and
atmosphere, such as the change in
weather.
And so we went for the typical uniform
again, collared blouse, trousers, black
shoes.
All throughout the film its given her the
emphasis of being a school student but
looking different in terms of her maturity
and change in age.
7. OLIVIA’S HAIR AND MAKEUP
Throughout the film, we’ve kept Olivia’s make-up to
be natural. This is because stereotypically, school’s
have rules about make up and to keep up with the
realism of the setting and plot of the film, we made
sure that Olivia abides by these rules.
Olivia’s hair was also kept natural. This is, that her
hair was open and a little bushy, giving her the
natural look and beauty. Although her hair is
bushy, it gave her a mature and sophisticated
look, expected of a student in sixth form.
8. PETER’S COSTUME
As he depicts a homosexual
boy, who breaks up with his
girlfriend, after ‘coming out of the
closet’, it was finalised that he
should wear something that makes
him look like a stereotypical
homosexual boy. This also gave
him the feminine and flamboyant
look which most homosexual males
are considered to be.
The costume; glitter blazer, tight
vest top, super skinny trousers and
black boots.
This helped to give the audience
something to foreshadow, before
he mention’s he’s gay. The reason
behind breaking up with Olivia.
9. PETER’S HAIR AND MAKEUP
Peter’s (Raman Bahra) make up was yet again kept
to minimum of nothing because he naturally had a
glow on his face which emphasised him being a
‘feminine’ homosexual.
His hair was spiked up with gel and wax to give him
a the image of a boy who cares about the way he
looks, as a homosexual boy is typically thought to
be.
All features he has naturally gives him the natural
look of a homosexual giving us the advantage of
depicting a real homosexual.
10. EXTRA’S COSTUMES.
When we cut to the scene of an ‘ET glow’ girl, we give
this actress the look of a typical outgoing, attractive
, blonde and beautiful look. This gave the effect that she
is a flirtatious, enticing and popular girl.
Similar, the scene in which Olivia is in year 8 and she
has gum stuck to her skirt, there are around 3 to 4 girls
laughing at her. We decided to give them a look of
popularity and gave Olivia the outcast feeling.
All these extras wore the typical school uniform, with the
blazer off, black shoes, skirts, tights and silky smooth
hair. Make up was kept to a minimum but was added to
some of the girls to give them a better representation of
school students.
