Olivia, the main character, undergoes four costume changes throughout the film to depict flashbacks from different periods of her school life. She wears her school uniform, PE uniform from lower school, and casual clothes depicting younger ages. Peter, her co-actor, only has one costume - a stereotypical flamboyant outfit to portray his role as a homosexual. Costumes aim to look realistic while advancing the narrative and emphasizing characters' roles and maturity levels. Makeup is kept natural to maintain realism within a school setting.

1. COSTUME NOTES
By Mariam Nawab

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 uses to portray a stereotypical
Homosexual.

3. OLIVIA BAKERS COSTUME: 1
 As, in our film, we are depicting 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.
 This costume runs through the
entire 5 minutes of the film. She
reminisces wearing these clothes,
till the last scene in which we
leavers the school.

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 the costume that she is wearing
in the situation that she was 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 hey 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 is
that instead of the blazer worn by
students, we gave her a ‘hoody’ 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 the 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
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 highlight the distress
that Amy, as well as the audience,
was given during the scene.

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 his feminine
side, as being a homosexual.
 His hair was spiked up with gel and wax to give him
a the image of a boy who looks after the way he
looks as a homosexual boy would, as typically
thought by people.
 All features he has naturally gives him the natural
look of a homosexual giving us the advantage of
depicting a homosexual as a homosexual instead of
a heterosexual as a homosexual.

10. EXTRA’S COSTUMES.
 When we cut to the scene of a ‘ET glow’ girl, we
gave her the look of a typical outgoing, attractive
look, blonde and beautiful. 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 look.