Mise-En-Scene: Costume Design

 Costume Design:

Costumes are one of the most important aspects of a character’s depth and personality. They can provide instant context about the character’s life. They provide the emotional and psychological cues, character evolution, audience immersion, and world building. It is massively important to get the costume right. Over the years costumes have defined characters’ identities...

Let's look to see which characters have been defined by their costumes...

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Now let's look at how I'll use costuming in our film opening. With our film being a detective thriller story, costuming becomes crucial to identify the film's distinct characters.

Obviously the natural FBI attire is what we will be going for in our film opening, very similar to how "True Detective S1" costumed their characters Rustin Cohle and Marty Hart.

For our killer we will go for a much more mysterious and disclosed look. Something similar to "The Riddler" in "The Batman." Our goal is to keep his identity as unknown as possible to keep the audience in the dark.

Costumes are definitely an important aspect that our group is taking into consideration. It’s not only about getting the costumes right but also delivering with the sets, props, and lighting, for the costumes to be fully represented in a way that can capture the distinct essence of each of our characters.