Costume research

We want to research deeply into the costumes of our characters because we believe they fully express the characters personality. Our main character is a homeless teenager. She is angry, hurt and alone and we want clothing to reflect that demeanour. We also need to make sure the audience believe that she is homeless, to do this we need to make sure we research into what homeless people would wear.

The usual stereotype for a homeless person is that they are dirty and addicted to drugs. They are also considered illiterate and lazy. For some people this is the case but in many circumstances homeless people are just helpless lost souls.
Our main character is defiantly not considered a bad person because she is homeless; she is just someone who has no love in her life and no one to look after her. She is just a child and wants to be loved.

The clothes the girl wears need to reflect how desperate she is and how much she wants to get out of her situation. We were thinking that maybe she could wear clothes that any normal teenage girl would wear but scruff them up to make the audience believe she is actually homeless. We want her to be wearing a winter hat and a long scarf to really show how cold it is. This will make the audience sympathise with her. Other pieces of clothing we will use are a winter coat that is too big for her. This will show how people don’t care enough about her to be buying her normal sized clothing. She will also wear scruffy trainers. All of these items of clothing will emphasise the fact that she is homeless.

Although we want the girl to look scruffy and dirty, we want to make her appealing to the audience. To do this we will make sure that you can see that the girl makes the best out of the clothes she has.