Mise-en-Scene: Costumes

We used simple clothing in the opening to our main film. They were our own clothes because we didnt have a large budget. Even though our characters are nothing like ourselves we used our own clothes to keep a sense of realism as our characters are just normal people who live a normal lifestyle and therefore dress simply. In the opening, 3 of our characters are wearing suit tops (blazer, shirt, tie) and one of the characters is just wearing casual clothes. The suits suggest a higher class for our characters and the casual shirt which is purple does the same as purple connotes royalty. This suggestion of middle class is reversed by the personality of the characters we have made them fairly common. We have done this to try and differ from the normal stereotypes.