The costume I think would best suit my protagonist (man who is running down corridor who ends up trying to save injured person at the end of the corridor) would be a pair of smart black shoes and black trousers because they are very uniform and can apply to a lot of job roles (therefore carrying out enigma codes even further as there isn't any significant thing the character is wearing to identify who he is yet). He would also be wearing a brighter coloured shirt e.g. purple, blue, pink etc... This little symbolic code represents him as being a good character because the shirt he is wearing is light and bright, stereotypically showing the good in him (as light and bright things are stereotypically seen as almost angelic in media) - however, this also contrasts the dark showing that there may be more than one side to him. Speaking of having more than one side to him, the character will also be wearing a mid length black coat and a black waist coat - the waist coat will be another element that supports the formal element of the clothing and narrative, but it will also be an item of clothing that is significant to the character so that there is something else about him that people will remember. The black coat he is wearing will again support the formality but it will also had a little bit of mystery to the character - metaphorically, people want to see what could be hidden underneath.
The
costume that I think would best suit my antagonist (the
man you see right at the end of the opening sequence when the protagonist is
‘caught’) would again be in black trousers and black shoes because they can be
applied to a lot of different job roles but also keep that fear people have for
those in strict and clean cut uniform – they tend to be the bosses if the
average man/women, therefore they have more power over a large number of people
and have the power to fire you or get you to do something bad in order for you
to keep your job (however this seen far more in films than reality, but the
fear still stands). He may also have a black coat...depending on whether the
people I know who will star in the film do in fact have a black coat. They will
also have to wear a shirt that connotes something evil or dangerous e.g. red or
black – these colors are often associated with danger and bad emotions and I
want that to reflect onto the antagonist.
However.
In my final product I didn't end up following the conventions of this costume for my characters because my antagonist ended up being a female so she couldn't wear a suit like this and my protagonist didn't have a light shirt to wear for filming nor could he borrow one. So, I instead made it clear that my protagonist was in fact a protagonist by putting him in a jumper because jumpers conventionally generally make people look soft and 'cute' or 'sweet'. If I had put my protagonist with clothing with straight lines and harsh edges such as a suit, it could suggest something evil and strict about that character (as this can be linked to the bosses of big corporations who are often portrayed in the media as ruthless, money grabbing tyrants)
However, despite clothing with a harsh and sharp shape having connotations of being evil I decided to put my antagonist in clothing that was quite loose which made her look as though she didn't care about what she looked like, making her seem like the kind of criminal that isn't attached to some big evil organisation, but some little gang that plays by its own rules and laws, making for a looser and less conventional plot where the outcomes of situations aren't as predictable as current media films.
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