Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Costume & Props (1)

1) Black shirt (seen in the poker flashback scene)
This shirt was selected to be worn during the shooting of the scene mainly because it helped to give my character a sense of mystery, ambiguity, and danger. Nearly all of the characters in the film (save for Diana’s character, Cassie) wear black, and black is a colour which is synonymous with crime and dirty, underground dealings, and since Jerry’s character is the epitome of this, we felt that black was the only colour that was suitable for his character to wear. As aforesaid, nearly all of the characters in the film wear black, and since the main colour coordination in our film is black and red, we also felt that black was a suitable colour for the character to wear since it helped to maintain a sense of continuity throughout the piece.

2) Glasses (seen in the poker flashback scene)

These glasses were selected to be worn during the shooting of the scene mainly because, when I wore them, they helped me give off a certain eerie and untrustworthy vibe, which was essential to the character that I was playing. They are also oddly similar to the glasses that Dustin Hoffman’s character wears in Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs,” a film in which Hoffman plays “a man on the edge,” similar to the character of Jerry in our film, so we felt that this similarity was more than fitting and decided to go with it.

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