Joe's dress code

The following page was created by songbird productions' head of costume and props  Lucy as a visual reference to the dress codes of the character Joe. Showing some examples of characters from actual thrillers with similar traits to our character.

Joe’s Dress Code

The characters that will feature a lot in our opening but not as much in the actual film will a victimised role who we at first think is the hero but then commits suicide leaving the hero role to his revenge- seeking girlfriend. As this character is an ex-gang member we want this to be shown in his dress code.

In the film Seven Pounds, Will Smith plays a depressed man who commits suicide and donates many of his organs to people who need them, including the woman he is in love with. He often wears a suit or a grey t-shirt and dark casual pants like in the photo below. In Leaving Las Vegas, Nicholas Cage plays an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking; he arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. He often wears a black blazer and white shirt or coloured shirt like the sickly- purple one below. In Harold and Maude the young character Harold finds himself obsessed with death until he meets Maude. Before he meets her he wears quite unusual quirky shirts and jackets, in the photo he is wearing an unusual coat, these however may be because of the time period this film was made and set in.

Nicholas Cage in Leaving Vegas (1995)

Bud Cort in Harold and Maud (1971)

Will Smith in Seven Pounds (2008)

Baring these characters in mind we will try to create a character who is trying to hide his gangster past and also having lots of suicidal thoughts. We shall therefore dress our character in the first scene, where he and Kym appear to be a happy couple, in a black t-shirt with dark blue jeans and black trainers, which could suggest there is something dark and secretive about this character.  He will also wear a plain hoodie. In the scene when he throws himself off the bridge he will wear a dark blue t-shirt to show depression with no jacket to show the cold doesn’t affect him as his main thoughts are on his death.