Research- Costume

My job was to look at costume and pick the individual costume for each character in ther film trailer. Although I had a general idea of what costumes I would like, I wanted to look more into the costume in the 1980s era.

I wanted to look at different costume designers of films that were related to our action film genre. The first designer I researched into was Louis Mingenbach. She was a costume designer for many famous films including 'The Hangover' and 'X-Men'. But the main reason that I researched into her was because she was the costume designer for the film 'Starsky and Hutch', which was a film we had looked at for inspiration. Through looking at her style, I could get my own ideas on how to base my costume ideas. She is very maticulous and careful, but very sure in her approach to designing costumes, as is shown in this interview about how she designed the costumes for the famous film, Superman:

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/movies/movies.php?topic=interview-louise

Even though this wasn't a film that was in our genre and focus, I could look at what she does in order to design and choose the costumes for such an iconic and particular kind of film, with costumes being quite extravagent and individual, which is what I want for my film trailer.

Another costume designer I researched was Rosie Hackett, who designed the costume for a very famous television programme 'Ashes to Ashes'. She was relatively inexperienced at this stage of her career when given this role, which gave me inspiration as she was thrown in at the deep end and given a tough job of developing these characters through their costumes, but in a very awkward and specialist era, such as the 1980s. Her experience of this role and how she created these costumes can be found here:

http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2008/03/14/dressing-up-the-ashes-to-ashes-cops-65233-20624024/

Through this research, I have a definitive idea of what costumes will work well within this genre, storyline and era. I will now develop these costumes and distribute my ideas to each character in order for them to purchase their costumes for the trailer ready for filming. Although I may have not followed these practitioners directly, they have greatly influenced my decisions and helped to develop my knowledge on the process of designing costumes.