Styling Day

Yasmin and I brang a collection of possible outfits to uni, that we think would work for our film, we styled to manequin for the whole afternoon, here are some of the looks we pulled together...

Costumes within film - 1 of my favourites...a must see

Devil wears prada one of my many favourite films. Simply because I'm a fashion addict and just adore the fashions that Anne Hathaway (who plays Andrea) is styled in. I love the fact that her designer outfits are still able to stand out amongst the other styled colleagues at her work place in the fashion magazine office. Here is a brilliant example of the main character seeking the camera/audience full attention.

Take a look at these stills from the 2006 movie...

Costumes within film

Grace Jones character 'Mayday' in James Bond film A Veiw To Kill, released in 1985, was a useful fashion costume film to analyse. Mayday is an assasin who's image is very hard egded consisting of power dressing; big shoulder small waist jackets (shape of a men's suit), strong/feirce make-up (bringing back her femininty), androgonous image, and also the use og black leather and gun handling gives the viewer the impression she is a forceful woman not to be reckoned with.

Research - Costumes within film

Taking note through lectures and watching a selection of films, I have become aware that the lead character should be wearing the most eye catching costume/s. If there are other characters or extras their garment should not deter away from the main point of focus. I have analysed a few films which practice this golden rule so to speak, where the lead character grabs the audience's attention with their costume. First example Barbarella... main character played by Jane Fonda, is styled in sexy, sassy mini combat dresses, although her charcater is portrayed to be tough who carrys weapons, she eventually saves the world. But her dress scent speaks volumes of the opposite. At first glipse you'd think she was frail and weak, and a woman who cares much about her appearence rather than a woman who doesnt mind getting rough and dirty. The colours chosen for her wardrobe relate to the battlefield with the earthy tones of khaki and browns, and also the use of sheer netting and metallics garuntee the audience's (especially male) attention.

Film Concept - Fashion Junkie

Our Fashion Junkie concept took great inspiration from the Sisely advertisement that was made back in 2007. This image pushes all boundaries on what is acceptable in our modern society, especially with so many young teens wanting to aspire to the modelling industry that has been put on a high pedestal since the early 90's powerhouse movement. But all that aside I like the genius idea of using fashion as the drug, and the addiction be the clothing. We will expand on the idea of being on a fashion HIGH so to speak, where we have fun with fashion because we can!!!

Sourcing a Green Screen

After presenting our thought in progress to our tutors they congratulated us for our enthusiatic ideas made us aware of a green screen that is available for us to use at the Maidstone campus of our university. Unfortunately the 3 x 5 (mtr) green screen that they have is no where near big enough for us to caputure the sceen of events that we would want to use it for. Aswell as the limited lighting that they have, the model's garments would not be fully represented...bummer onto plan b.

Hmmm... Green Screen

Furhter developing the sci-fi/immortal concept, somewhat lead me to this idea. Would'nt it be amazing veiwing to see the model/actress of our film to be imported into a scene that already exists? As we dont have a hollywood box office budget to work with LOL, i.e building our own sci-fi set complete with props and materials from scratch, we're thinking of filming the actress in front of a green screen, then edit the footage using 'Final Cut Pro' software to merge the two as if they were oringinal captured as one...

Oooooh..loving these statues

The gold swimming diver is the landmark for Ferrers swimming pool, in South Woodham, Chelmsford Borough. The gold is right on the mark with our si-fi mettallics theme, and from a distance or shot up close this statue would make for a great immortal extra within our film. The poise of the statue almost resembles somebody flying through the air. I like the idea of the possible imagery this statue would be able to deliver.

Technical fault of uploading pics

I am having a technical diffucltly uploading the rest of the statue images I took in borough. I will keep you posted!!!

Statues of Borough

I went down to Borough and noticed the William Churchill statue is in fact the Borough landmark. I took some pics of the others I spotted but quite frankly realised these were not the type of statues that would fit into our film concept. Take a look...

Critical analysis - Cleopatra

ITS ANNOYINGLY INTERESTING TO SEE WHY THEY USED A WHITE CAUCASIAN ACTRESS TO PLAY A BLACK EGYPTIAN HISTORICAL FIGURE IN THIS FILM.i ALMOST FEEL AS THOUGH SOME OF THE GARMENTS WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE LUMINOUS ON CAMERA IF THEY WERE DRESSED ONTO DARKER SKIN. CRITICAL FILM ANALOGY ALLOWS ME TO TAKE THINGS SUCH AS THIS ON BOARD FOR MY FILM PRODUCTION.

Cleopatra

The costumes in this film are ridiculously fabulous. Elizabteh Taylor steels the show, I personaly learnt a lot about fashion/COSTUME through film when I analysed this movie. Here are some outfits I love from the film...

Film Concept - Initial ideas

I am a huge Disney animation fan. One of the classics that I love the effects and the story line of is Alice in Wonderland by Disney. The scene where Alice falls down the hole and ends up being in a whole new under world, gave us (my partner and I) the inspiration to conjour up our 1st scene. So at this point we know that we want our model to be in an immortal world because in my opinion the unfamiliar scenery results in more interesting veiwing and can hold the audience attention a lot longer than the norm , but how and why she is there is yet to be critically ananlysed...

Location ideas...Borough

Having presented our ideas to Geraldine (our film unit lecturer), we were given advice as to shoot on location in London, Borough. She gave the suggestion after hearing our ideas as to consider shooting on location in Borough, she told us that there are many statues in the area that would look great on camera. Having heard this I instantly wanted to check it out, as my thoughts were thinking along the lines of the other charcaters could be...as still as a statue! Plus if this were to be a success, it would limit the costs for me and Yasmin, when sourcing the costumes for extras to wear, genius.

Subjects around the film

The day we were introduced to this film project we understood that our film had to be inspired by a designer which I chose at random out of a hat, who turned out to beFred Butler . Then via the same method I chose a mood which was warm, and also an effect, which is shaky cam.

Fred Butler Bio

Fred Butler graduated from the University of Brighton in 2003 and went on to launch her website featuring art direction in 2006. She specialises in creating props as accessories for stylists such as Nicola Formichetti, Patti Wilson and Francesca Burns. Commissions for costumes have also created a network of numerous musicians including Patrick Wolf, Bishi and Sigur Ros. Other clients include Selfridges & Co. for whom she has previously made headwear for mannequins across the window scheme.
As a regular contributor to SHOWstudio she was commissioned to make a movie clip for their political fashion season. A/W 2008 saw Fred Butler launch her first official fashion collection of inspirational creations with which to decorate and adorn. For A/W 2009, Fred won sponsorship from the British Fashion Council / Top Shop New Gen award to showcase her collection and create a film presentation in the exhibition at London Fashion Week.

Take a look @ Fred pictured right with her latest collection for 2010, along with her quirky dress scense!...interesting.

Blair witch project - Example of Shaky Cam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQQpmm5u3w