We drew inspiration from other thrillers for ideas about characters and the costumes they should wear। After watching the film 'Se7en' 1995, directed by David Fincher in which Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman play detectives, we felt that the incorporating detectives into our storyline could prove to be effective by adding a sense of mystery and crime to our thriller and ultimately creating inigmas for the audience। Therefore it was necessary for us to research the stereotypical costume of a detective because, due to the fact that we are avoiding the use of dialogue for our film opening, we needed to make it instantly visibly clear for the audience to establish the occupation of the two men.
In order to gain this information we used the search engine Google Images and found the pictures below:
However we felt that these images were stereotypical, but weren't realistic and were more of a old fashioned representation. Therefore we drew our detectives' costume inspiration from 'Se7en' as we felt that they were far more representitive and suited to the modern day, which is what we want to come across in our thriller.
As can be seen in the image above, these costumes are more smart and sophisticated with ties, shirts and waistcoats and this is the type of modern take on the traditional detective outfit that we want to achieve ourselves. We have also gained an idea of the colours our characters should wear which are neutral: beige, black, grey, brown, white and we hope to successfully incorporate all of this in putting the costumes together. The fact that these costumes are so professional in appearance shows that the characters pay attention to detail.
Jade Smith
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