Costumes in our film opening wont be plentiful as the character has only one outfit throughout the film but, are important to portraying personality and status through our character.
Our main Character in our story is a girl who longs to be popular but in reality is deeply insecure about her status and wants to reconstruct her life to be the version she wishes to be. This is shown by her scrolling through Pintrest and liking photos of influencers living a full yet fake life.
Through research, colors that represent insecurity in people are blacks, greys, and beiges as they're colors of people who want to avoid being seen. This is relative to our character as, even though she wants to be seen, she doesn't want to be seen as the person that she is but more-so the person that she wants to be. In our film opening, we want to include a sequence where she compares photos from her own page to her friend's. Her page includes very bright colors with her wearing yellows and whites and photos with high saturation. They're all old photos from like a year ago when she used to post confidently with her best friend. The bright maybe pastel colors might also represent innocence and being childish in a free sort of way. This makes the outfit she wears now feel more dull, like a lost of spark and confidence within her.
Our characters friend wears a lot of blacks, whites, silvers, and golds to represent partying, nightlife, and rebellion. Tank tops with ripped jeans and smeared makeup would be a staple look to her, almost representing the "Ke$ha look" when her whole brand surrounded partying.
This contrast of looks shows the different levels in social status between our main character and her friend and the large social gap between them that tore our two best friends apart in the past.
Costume might just seem like a small part of production, but it can be huge to portraying story without actually telling it.
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