R+P Post 17: Our planned costumes, hair and make-up

For our costumes hair and make-up, the main two focuses of our attention were Craig and David. David had to be instantly recognizable as gay, as he said very little in our opening sequence, where as Craig had to be dressed more subtly as he was still in the closet. We casted my friend Alex as David because the kind of clothes he wore, his personality, as well as his bleached blonde, quiffed up hair matched how we envisioned David to be. This is because stereotypically gay men have dyed hair and Alex was an obvious person to type-cast. We also wanted Craig to have slightly nerdy, bed hair. Therefore, we told Reuben not to touch his hair in the morning, as it normally is pretty curly and a bit messy, but we felt that if this was slightly exaggerated it would only help our production. Below is David's hair and make-up grid.

In hindsight, I think we would have stylised the bullies hair and make-up slightly more as it would have made them quicker and easier to recognize, by drawing on the audience's prior experiences and preconcieved stereotypes, as dictated by Barthe's cultural codes. That said, overall I feel our dressing of the characters in the hair and make-up segment proved to be good and created a better sense of character in our opening sequence.