1. COSTUME NOTES
By Mariam Nawab

2. COSTUME CHANGES: MAIN
CHARACTERS
 Olivia (Amy Dunn), the main actress, undergoes
four different costume changes.
 Reason being that there are scenes in which
Olivia describes events that have occurred in her
school life and so to show these events we create
the flashbacks. To make the film more realistic in
terms of its narrative, we show these events. And
so costume change is necessary.
 Peter (Raman Bahra), co-actor, only has one
costume, which he used to portray a stereotypical
Homosexual boy.

3. OLIVIA BAKERS COSTUME: 1
 As, in our film, we are
depicting Olivia to be a sixth
form student, we decided to go
with the sixth formers
uniform. The standard blazer,
collared blouse, tie, trousers
and black shoes that is
common.
 This gives it the realistic look
and relates to the title of the
film. This costume emphasises
the sixth former look. Portrays
a professional, outgoing and
adolescence image.
 This costume runs through the
entire 5 minutes of the film.

4. OLIVIA BAKERS COSTUME: 2
 The next costume we decided Amy (portraying
Olivia) should wear is the P.E sports costume.
 This change occurs when Olivia, on the bench
scene, has a flashback of being hit on the head
with a dodgeball.
 We chose this particular costume because we
wanted emphasise that the events Olivia
reminisces, actually occurs and so we show that
they do by changing scenes to a flashback in
which she wears this costume in the situation
that she is in.
 These are the basic jogging bottoms and polo
shirt which is part of the school’s P.E uniform.
 The converse/trainers can’t be seen in the scene
as it is a very short cut to the flashback. But to
add to the effect of a lower school student in P.E
uniform, we had Olivia wear shoes to get the
feel of a sports student.
 This helped better when filming because it
helped make the filming easier and atmosphere,
realistic.

5. OLIVIA BAKERS COSTUME: 3
 The next costume change occurs in the next
flashback. This is when she reminisces
when she was in year 8 and had gum stuck
on her skirt. Therefore, she is wearing a
lower school uniform costume.
 And so we felt, being a younger student, to
go with the look of a little girl that wears
skirts. This is stereotypically what a young
girl would wear, emphasising her innocence
and vulnerability.
 We went with a lower school uniform,
collared blouse, tie, skirt, tights and black
flat shoes. We did not add the blazer as we
wanted a change in atmosphere, her being
in a classroom working on a table by herself
with her blazer off, elsewhere.
 Another reason why we chose this costume
was to give her the comfort to feel like a
year 8 student again, instead of just acting
like one, helping her act better, by playing
the role in real life.

6. OLIVIA BAKERS COSTUME: 4
 The last of her costume changes is the
last of her flashbacks when she was a
year 9 student and her homosexual
boyfriend breaks up with her.
 Yet again we decided not to go with
the blazer because we wanted her to
look comfortable and calm before the
effect of ‘breaking up’ had passed
through her.
 The difference in her being comfort
zone is that instead of the blazer
worn by students, we gave her a
‘hoody’ to add to the young look and
to add to the effect of different setting
and atmosphere, such as the change
in season, Winter.
 And so we went for the typical
uniform again, collared blouse, tie,
trousers, black shoes.
 All throughout the film its given her
the emphasis of being a school
student but looking different in terms
of her maturity and change in age.

7. OLIVIA’S HAIR AND MAKEUP
 Throughout the film, we’ve kept Olivia’s make-up
to be natural. This is because stereotypically,
school’s have rules about make up and to keep up
with the realism of the setting and plot of the
film, we made sure that Olivia abides by these
rules.
 Olivia’s hair was also kept natural. This is, that
her hair was open and a little bushy, giving her
the natural look and beauty. Although her hair is
bushy, it gave her a mature and sophisticated
look, expected of a student in sixth form.

8. PETER’S COSTUME
 As he depicts a homosexual boy,
who breaks up with his girlfriend,
after ‘coming out of the closet’, it
was finalised that he should wear
something that makes him look
like a stereotypical homosexual
boy. This also gave him the
feminine and flamboyant look
which most homosexual males
are considered to be.
 The costume; glitter blazer, tight
vest top, scarf around his neck,
super skinny trousers and black
boots.
 This helped to give the audience
something to foreshadow, before
he mention’s he’s gay. The reason
behind breaking up with Olivia.

9. PETER’S HAIR AND MAKEUP
 Peter’s (Raman Bahra) make up was yet again
kept to minimum of nothing because he naturally
had a glow on his face which emphasised him
being a ‘feminine’ homosexual.
 His hair was spiked up with gel and wax to give
him a the image of a boy who cares about the way
he looks, as a homosexual boy is typically
thought to be.
 All features he has naturally gives him the
natural look of a homosexual giving us the
advantage of depicting a real homosexual.

10. EXTRA’S COSTUMES.
 When we cut to the scene of an ‘ET glow’ girl, we give this
actress the look of a typical outgoing, attractive , blond and
beautiful look. This gave the effect that she is a flirtatious,
enticing and popular girl.
 Similar, the scene in which Olivia is in year 8 and she has
gum stuck to her skirt, there are around 3 to 4 girls laughing
at her. We decided to give them a look of popularity and gave
Olivia the outcast feeling.
 Also when the male ‘Jock’ is sitting surrounded by ladies, we
gave him a upper and popular look by giving him the sporty
costume more suitable and associated with the ‘Jock’ status.
 The girls around him are wearing their normal school uniform
and minimum make up. All other girl extras in the remainder
of the film wore the typical school uniform, with the blazers
off, black shoes, skirts, tights and silky smooth hair. Make up
was kept to a bare minimum but was added to some of the
girls to give them a better representation of school students.