Planning - Costume and Make-up

5/12/13

Costumes and make-up will be key to making this trailer. This is because we need to make the audience members believe that Jack and Anna are trying to survive in a 'post zombie-outbreak world'. The way we will do this is by dressing the actors in dirtier clothes and have (hopefully) good looking fake blood on their clothes and bodies.

Make-up

For the fake blood, I have found a useful video on YouTube - it explains a number of ways if making fake blood at home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLouVD0Otog

I have ordered the necessary materials from www.amazon.co.uk and they will be arriving in 3-5 days, so I can start experimenting to get the right kind of fake blood that I am looking for. After the experimenting, I will make a big batch on the day of filming.

In the garage that we will film in, there will be a lot of dirt and dust around, so we will cover the actors in this dirt, so it looks like they have been travelling for days. I may also ask the actors to skip a morning shower to make them look that bit more dirty.

Costume

Both characters will be dressed in casual clothes, but (as said above) they are meant to have been traveling for a number of days - so we will make these clothes dirtier on the day of the filming, as well as maybe ripping one or two holes in them. This will hopefully give the impression that they have been traveling for days and have been chased by zombies a lot of the time.

Note: both costumes and both actors will have many patches of dirt/dust all over them. This will be created on the day.

Costumes
Jack			Anna
Clothing	Notes		Clothing	Notes
T-Shirt	Ripped a little at the bottom.		Dress	Maybe a little ripped at the top/side.
Jeans	Ripped at one knee.		Tights	Lots of small and big holes.
Trainers	Covered in dust/dirt.		Plimsolls	Covered in dust/dirt.

Joel and Ellie from 'The Last of Us' (2013), I want to base the 'dirtiness' of the costumes on these characters. See how Joel has cuts all the way up his arm due to fighting the zombie-like creatures, how both of them look unkempt, and their clothes look so dirty.