The document discusses the creative decisions made in developing characters and their costumes for a film trailer about two young people from opposing gangs who fall in love. To make the working-class characters relatable, the main male characters were dressed in joggers and hoodies, though a party scene showed them dressing more formally to avoid stereotyping all working-class people as "chavs." The female leads dressed slightly higher-class since they tried to prevent violence, while the males embraced violence and were dressed as "chavs." The actors had to change costumes to fit these stereotypes and create authenticity for the working-class roles.

2. The characters that are seen in our film trailer, are
generally the main characters in the film. There has been
use of unimportant characters in the trailer, but this was
simply to help move the trailer along smoothly, these
are known as vehicle characters.
When creating our trailer, my team and I had to try and
make the characters relatable to a working class
audience, at this point is when the stereotype of suggesting
all working class people are ‘chavs’ came into play with
our film.
Despite the fact we did make our characters dress in
joggers and hoodies to connote the working class area,
we also had a scene at a party where the characters got a
chance to dress formal, I think by my team and I doing this,
it balances out that for the rest of the movie the working
class area will be seen as slightly ‘chavvy’.

3. The female characters in our film we’re not represented
as ‘chavvy’ as the females were the ones trying to break up
the fighting and to stop the madness, therefore it was
only right that we made the girls in the film look as
though they belonged to a higher class to show they were
above the fighting.
The males on the other hand wanted to continue with the
violence, this is why we had to make them look like ‘chavs’
as in our society today, ‘chavs’ are seen as destructive, so
by us sticking to the stereotypes it is easier for our
audience to see what class and social group we are
representing.

4. In our trailer Josh plays
Romeo who has found the
love of his life, but one
problem... She is in the
opposing gang, who’s brother is the
leader of.
In the trailer Romeo is shown as a
‘chav’ for this we had to get Josh
out of his style of clothing and into
something he was not so
comfortable in.
By being able to change his costume
we were able to create a realistic
effect of the stereotype of the
working
class and how they are portrayed.

5. In our trailer Beth plays Juliet.
Juliet has fallen for Romeo in the
opposite gang and is also best
friends with Kenzie who is also in
the opposite gang. Her brother
Blake is constantly wanting to
fight Romeo, but Juliet has to try
and stop him without having letting
him find out about them two.
So where does it all go wrong for
Juliet when a gun is pulled to her
face?!
In the film Beth’s costume is
typically what she would wear
everyday anyway (well apart
from the party scenes, I doubt
she’d wear a dress everywhere ).

6. In our trailer Alex plays
Alex (creative I know ).
Alex is Romeo’s best friend,
and helps him try to be
with Juliet even though he
knows it is wrong.
As you can see, Alex’s style
of clothing is not usually
joggers and hoodies, so
with him willing to change
his costume, it was able to
give our film a real sense
of authenticity.

7. In our trailer Hannah plays Kenzie,
who is in Romeo’s gang but is best
friends with Juliet, who is
obviously in the opposite gang.
Kenzie is also seeing someone, but
the mystery around that makes us
wonder who that is, could it be
Blake?
In the film Hannah’s costume is
typically what she would wear
everyday anyway (well apart
from the party scenes, I doubt
she’d wear a dress everywhere ).

8. In our trailer Ryan
plays Blake, who is
Juliet’s brother, and is
the leader of their
gang. Despite Juliet
being worried about
Blake finding out she is
in love with Romeo.Although he has a secret to hide
himself as he has a mystery girl, is
it Kenzie?
Again, as you can see Ryan also had
to change his costume to a make him
appear as a working class
character.