Sunday 28 August 2011

Costumes Research

As research for our costumes for our trailer, I have looked at a trailer for Emmerdale since it's of a similar setting to our soap opera, as well as EastEnders for the character of Rachel Mannings as she is from an urban location.

















The females in this Emmerdale trailer wear predominantly black, connoting sinister themes and perhaps preofessional occupations. One female also wears checkered shirts green to denote the farm setting, as well as an apron in one scene connoting her house wife status. She also wears a silver, heart necklace connoting the affair story line being advertised. Another female is wearing a pearl necklace, potentially connoting she is of a higher demographic grouping, possibly B.




In comparison to the females in the Emmerdale trailer, the women in the EastEnders trailer appear to wear brighter colours, such as white, pink, blue, and orange, connoting happier themes and story lines, as well as happier personalities. The costumes include small jakcets, long tops as well as scarves and gillets aand hate which also reflect the urban setting of the soap and suggets that the characters belong to demographic groups C1 and below.

In order to portray that the character of Rachel comes from an area such as Essex, to a place such as Emmerdale, we will need to emmulate the styles seen in EastEnders, such a small jacket and plain top, but use colours , like black, to connot that she is durturbing the peaceful area.