Saturday 17 April 2010

Costume- Following Disposition

Now the rough version of disposition was deemed complete, I began to recall a preceding blog post concerning attire for our antagonist. After careful deliberation, I universally consider that the clothing we clothed Tom in reflects our Hybrid Thriller, as well as the themes and messages we are trying to convey.
As I have already said, we summoned most of our attire influence from Michael Douglas’ fictional character in Falling Dawn, as we are using Tom’s exterior shell as a metaphor, to convey the theme of distrust, and an overall sense of trepidation that hopefully looms throughout the two minute sequence.

To anchor the theme deceiving normality, we supported our initial instincts of the predictable white shirt, black tie and formal trousers. I universally feel this unfolded really well, as his intended image fell between a happy medium that conveyed both normality, as well as a somewhat foreboding, quirky zest that really becomes prominent towards the latter end of the sequence.

However, with this meagre success, we suffered a handful of problems. For example, we devised an idea where Tom loosens his tie at the station. This shot was perfected at Brentwood, however, as our location dramatically changed, the continuity would suffer. Therefore, we had to convey this degeneration as he places the knifes, rolling up his sleeves to commit the deed.

When analysing the social grades (target audience), I genuinely believe the Tom is someone they can relate to. I really think that his angst of the mundane commute is conveyed by his lack of general emotion, even when he reaches the house. This form of firm, ridged Non Verbal Communication, accompanied by his fairly standard shirt, tie and glasses fundamentally grounds the film, conjuring up something that is legitimately believable.

To some extent his attire resembles the fellow inspiration of Jack Torrance from the Shining. However, I feel we have replaced this frenetic role with something more resourceful and practical. The fact Jack’s jumper is red subconsciously symbolises danger merely through mise en scene. However, Tom’s attire if anything symbolises innocence with the white shirt, which once again follows the deceptive route we are trying to convey.

Overall, I think the costume was a complete success, and effectively anchored the intending themes and messages we were trying to propose.

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