Costume Ideas

As a group, we discussed what sort of clothing we wanted to dress our characters in, and concluded that the gang members should be dressed in suits. We decided on this outfit as the gang in our film are fairly sophisticated and wealthy, and should therefore appear similar to the gangs in other modern noir films like The Departed and Trance.

Our femme fatale, on the other hand, is of a significantly lower status than the other characters in the story, and works in a cafe owned by the gang's leader. Therefore, we decided that she should be dressed in items of clothing which match the iconography of her profession, including an apron and basic, casual clothes underneath. We thought we would dress her in a white t-shirt when she is first introduced, to make her seem as though she is a victim and is downtrodden by the gang. As the film progresses, however, we decided we would dress our femme fatale in a red t-shirt, which has semiotic connotations of danger, passion and love to emphasise her evolution into the manipulative double-crosser who betrays the men surrounding her.