Our film opening won't have many characters so when it comes to costume design, it shouldn't be too much of a hassle. There will be the main character, Elena, and the dead man on the floor of her kitchen, unnamed. The only other people "shown" in the opening are Tinder profile pictures that we will probably find Stock photos for. Jackson is a character in the film opening as well but he will only be shown as a Tinder profile photo, not personally in the opening.
ELENA
Since Elena is hosting a romantic dinner date with a man, Jackson, she hasn't met before, she needs to dress properly not only because it's a date but because it's going to be her first impression on him. She will wear a dress and heels but it can't just be any color; it needs to match the genre, setting, and intentions of Elena. The genre is thriller so the color could be black or red, the setting is pretty casual as it's in a normal house so there's no colors to link to that, but Elena's intentions are dark (black) and murderous (red/blood red). Since neither Vicky or Bella own a red dress, we will have to resort to a black dress. None of them own red heels either but since we don't want Elena to be in all black, we are thinking of having Elena wear silver heels. We won't have Elena wear any jewelry as she likes to be the main focus of attention and she admires natural features. Her hair will be straightened and brushed and although you only see her face for a few seconds at the end of the opening, she will have basic make-up on (just mascara).
DEAD MAN
For the dead man, who will literally be shown for around 5 seconds, I am going to have to play him as I am the only male group member. Since I don't own anything fancy (not even a flannel or button-up), I'm thinking I will wear a sweater, jeans, and some normal sneakers (mostly because it's my whole wardrobe). We did think of a reason, though, to link the man's death to his clothing as Elena is searching for the perfect lover and she kills the ones who don't meet her requirements. This man specifically wore casual clothing to a date she wears formal attire to, meaning they both don't have the same importance for a date and/or the man doesn't feel she's important enough to wear formal clothes. Because of this, Elena kills him and that explains his death! Anyway, regarding the color of his clothing, we don't want them to be wearing the same colors (black) so he will wear anything but that but since "he" is me, the only other color of sweaters I own besides black is brown. He will wear a brown sweater which can symbolize that obviously, him and Elena aren't exactly the same (the color black) but since brown is a dark color as well and not far off from the color black, it can show how the two are similar but since Elena doesn't allow any small imperfections, she killed him anyway. The jeans he will wear are dark blue. I own black jeans but we don't want him to wear the same color as Elena and I also have grey but that doesn't match with brown so dark blue it is. He will also wear brown shoes as he (me) loves following the sandwich method which basically just means wearing the same color top and bottoms and any other color for pants. He will wear a bracelet (visible) and a necklace (not visible) to represent the tiny differences he had from Elena along with the BIG difference he had with her (formality).
SANDWICH METHOD \/
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