Children's Film: Costumes

As earlier discussed we need to create some costumes for our superhero and villain. Today we all brought in superhero items and possible costumes parts to dress our actors in. We also remembered to get the 'magic-apple' ready for filming on both days, and also the burger which we would need for the villain.

On the right you can see a photo of our superhero. The clothing is very bright coloured, this will immediately engage and attract the young audience. It also follows a theme of red and white, these are colors which the audience can then relate to later. It might even relate well to the apple which is also typically red. The superhero also wears a gold mask, this protects his identity without completely covering his face, the young children will be able to understand who this character is later on when he's out of this dream. The cape is quite a stereotypical part of a superhero costume, for example, like Superman. Some young children will immediately relate our superhero with Superman, and for some this might even be the item of clothing that disguises them as a superhero. Our actor, George, is also wearing a wig. The reason for this is that later the superhero will be seen as an everyday student, but he's a bit of an outsider and so we are using this wig so he is easily distinguishable.


Later our superhero exits the scene, and will still be wearing the wig so that the young audience can remember who this character is. It's extremely important that we make the transition from the superhero scene to the real-life scene as smooth and obvious as possible, or at least as evil.

We also had a villain, he is wearing a evil-scientist style lab coat, glasses, devil horns, and a black cape which create this 'Dr Evil' effect. The devil horns are probably the item which make tell the audience that this is a villain. This scientist-style look is very stereotypical of villains. Frankenstein is an example, however small children are extremely unlikely to have watched this. The villain's weapon is a burger, this is crucial to our plot as it teaches a moral - healthy eating.

Later on our villain will be reusing the lab coat and glasses when he plays a teacher character. Again the audience will be able to relate to where the main character got this dream from.