The document provides costume ideas for several characters: Emma's costume is meant to be plain and light-colored to reflect her quiet personality, and includes a jumper, shirt, and converses. Her hair is in a loose ponytail and makeup is casual. For an important scene, she wears a dressier skater skirt. Steve's costume has a rough, unfinished appearance to portray a protective, hardworking lower-middle class man. His shirt is untucked with buttons undone. Darren's minor character only needs a polo shirt to suggest his lower class status and sporty personality through a small visible area. Grace wears smarter clothes fitting her middle class status, including a skirt, and

1. Costume Ideas

2. Emma
The costume to the right is one that will be used for Emma during the majority of
the scenes, there will be a variety of alterations from day to day scenes.
The outfit will remain quite plain and simple, as well as being light in colour to
reflect her fairly quiet and submissive personality. However, as she is a lowermiddle class student, the clothing are not of any designer or expensive brands and
will therefore remain quite simplistic in the appearance.
Emma is also intended to be a sporty yet studious character and therefore her
clothes are very relaxed in appearance and it is comfort orientated, as well as
remaining stylish. The converses chosen for her shoes also reflect the sporty
aspect of her personality, as they are a casual yet quite sporty element involved. To
emphasise the studious aspect of her personality, she will wear a shirt underneath
the jumper when she starts school.
Lastly, in terms of Emma’s hair and make-up it remains to be again, casual and
relaxed. Her hair will be up in a loose yet messy pony tail with a neutral face of
make-up: nothing too over the top or formal.

3. Emma
As previously mentioned, the majority of shots involving Emma will
consist of her wearing that (or very similar) costume. However, there is
one prominent scene in which Emma goes to meet Jason for the first time
and therefore makes a strong effort with her appearance- to ensure she
makes a good impression.
We have chosen the outfit to the right because it is more ‘dressy’ than she
has previously be seen wearing, yet it still remains quite casual at the
same time. The skater skirt has been chosen to reflect the more outgoing
side of her personality, in which she gains more confidence; especially
within meeting somebody new for the first time.
Her hair will be down and purposefully quite messy, not reflecting an
essence of her personality- merely to show a purposeful style decision.
Her make-up will also be more prominent, it will be more formal in the
sense that she has paid more attention to her eyes and making them a
more significant feature.

4. Steve
The costume on the right that we have chosen Steve to wear will often
consist of an overall quite ‘rough around the edges’ appearance.
Although this has not been easily depicted via the images found on
Google, it will be shown more thoroughly by not having a clean cut
approach to dress. For example, the shirt sleeves will be rolled up and a
few top buttons left undone; this will reflect him as a man quite
protective and hardworking.
Also, we needed to portray a lower-middle class man and therefore the
more rough approach will reflect this. He would be portrayed as a
working man who takes his job seriously and perhaps even shows him as
one who never stops.
However, the specific clothing items used will allow for the reflection of
his more professional personality, being an IT technician.

5. Darren
As Darren is a minor character and his full appearance is rarely seen
(the only aspect of his body shown are his head and shoulders, via
an over the shoulder shot).
Therefore there is not as much importance on the costume in which
he must wear, however we still must ensure that even the tiniest bit
shown, portrays the message of his character which we have
envisioned.
As only a small part of his body will be shown, the only costume we
are accounting for is his top; which we have chosen to be a polo
shirt. This item of clothing is quite sporty, which we wish to reflect
and show but also is not an expensive item to buy and therefore can
mirror his lower class status.

6. Grace
The costume on the right has been chosen, due to the more materialistic
and fashionable approach to her character. The clothes are smart and will
allow for those aspects of her personality to be portrayed easily to the
audience.
Not only this but she is a middle class student and therefore having the
clothing more formal will show the difference in class she has, compared to
perhaps Emma- who is placed as a lower-middle class.
As she is only in 2 scenes (one at school and one in a coffee shop) therefore,
the outfit to the right would be used in school; to produce a smarter and
more studious effect. Whilst the weekend scene at the coffee shop will be
differentiated by the use of a more casual t-shirt paired with the similar
skater skirt; to create a more relaxed style.
Her hair will be down and styled, whilst her make-up will be more
purposeful and full, in comparison to Emma: again reflecting the more
materialistic element of her character.

7. Mia
The outfit on the right has been chosen to reflect the character and
personality of Mia. She is a studious character and therefore the shirt and
jumper combination can reflect this in perhaps a stereotypical manner but
portrays a more formal and smart approach nonetheless.
Also, she is of an upper class and therefore the costume she wears will
remain smart and formal as that would be a probable convention of her
character.
She is in multiple scenes and therefore there may be a few more
differentiations between costumes; for example she may have just a shirt
and not the jumper also, or jeans and a shirt etc.
Lastly, her hair will be up in a ponytail to reflect a more conservative and
reserved feeling of her personality; while the make-up will also remain quite
plain.