Costuming

Costume Ideas Pinterest Board

For the character of Lucas, we were intending to create a thug/delinquent look. Instead of defaulting to a a stereotypical "chav" character, we played with the idea of either a "biker" leather jacket-style look or a skinhead style. While we originally intended to go for a skinhead look, believing it to be very visually unique, it proved difficult to actually obtain the clothes required to make the outfit. Instead, based on the clothes which the actor had, we decided to have the character of Lucas wear a suit. This does play up the vaguely noir tones used in the voiceover and which we wish to demonstrate in the cinematography. It does give the character of Lucas a more confusing interpretation by the audience, but we hope that that will work in our favour by confusing the possible, and unknown, reasons for the conflict between the two characters.

Wesley's clothing is going to be much more casual, ordinary clothes than Lucas. This ensures that he will fit into no particular group and will be generally more relatable as a character, as well as being much less visually unique than Lucas, creating a duller character from the beginning. We've opted for a t shirt, leather jacket and jeans, which is quite a timeless "look" as well as being relatively generic.