Film Noir: Still Photographs

Today we spent a lot of time searching for appropriate costumes to allow us to portray the era of the 1950's through dress. We found a number of items which are absolutely perfect for our shoot, and of course our film. By doing these still photographs we can get an idea of how each of the characters will look in each of their attire and know what works and what doesn't, so when it comes to filming there are no wardrobe malfunctions!

We found today:

• trench coat
• black women's hat (netted, looks expensive)
• women's tweed jacket (like in the fourth photograph in the previous blog post)
• conventional 'film noir' style man's hat
• telephones (useful for creating the setting of the office in the right time period)
• red dress (for the 'femme fatale' during her getaway)(red signifies danger)
• briefcase
• Gun
• fur coat

And we will also use:

• pearls (as they are a sign of wealth)
• black dress (Scarlett's)
• white dress (Bonnie's; represents purity)
• red heels (represents lust, seduction and danger)
• red lipstick
• trouser braces
• fake cigarette

Tomorrow we shall shoot our still photographs to help us along the way to develop our own film noir's character profiles. It'll be exciting to get working with our actors!

These are the characters we have found actors for so far:

Detective Carter - Ed Beard

Bobby - Ben Humberstone

Bonnie - Ellen Bradford

Scarlett - Me

Chester - Toby Fitch