R+P Post 17: Our planned costumes and props, hair and make-up

In order to have good characterisation, I along with the group created a costume list for our characters. This included guidelines on their hair and make-up, costume and reference points that we used to influence our decisions. The costume list helped us as it showed us what costumes we would need to source and bring to the shoots.

For references, we tried to find characters from other British programmes or films that would be similar to the UK indie film that we would be creating. The Inbetweeners was a strong reference for us as the characters (especially Carly and Simon) wore quite plain, basic outfits that would be easy to recreate but still connoted the fact that they were normal teenagers. Katie from Skins (right) was the reference for the character of Ella because she is portrayed as the "ideal" almost stuck up girl through her make-up, clothes and jewellery. 

Simon and Carly from the Inbetweeners, used as references
for Anthony and Grace.