Costume (planning and research)

Ensuring the characters are wearing the correct clothes to suit their personas is vital in creating a believable narrative. Therefor great care has been taken to kit them out properly, to produce the characters we envisaged.

Rafid Valenciano wears very intimidating clothing to fulfil his 'gangster' role. This includes black hoodie, silver chains, dark jeans and black bandana. Alex Cox his partner is represented in much the same way through the large white hoodie, jeans, and footwear. However their counterpart Matt Rayburn has a different style though living in the same area. He wears lighter jeans, 'abercrombie' hoodie and has a longer scruffier hairstyle to match the look. This distinguishes between the two classes and warms the audience towards Matt Rayburn's character.

This aspect of mise-en-scene is very important in identifying the characters. Despite the teaser trailer being relatively short the audience can tell just from the costume that this is an urban film which concentrates on youths and the representations they hold.

Here are some examples of Rafid's costume:

Black Hoodie

Bandana

Silver Chain