Costume research

The costume is quite an important part of the piece, it has to resemble that of the stereotypical 60's look. Flares, flowery shirts, velvet, loones and biba. Richard Curtis' The Boat That Rocked created excellent characters to base our costume on. Gavin Kavanagh especially, the eccentric fellow below, who coincidentally is the one we name Jack out the whole film and whom Jack says he bases his day to day costume design on anyway, was the best source of research into the style of the swinging 60's. However we did not want the costume to look to fake and more like a fancy dress piece than a real costume, this would have put the audience off the film as it would look to historically incorrect. However there is the question -STILL- of whether this matters as he may not in fact even be in the 60's, just stuck in a time warp.

We had a look around some charity shops to get an idea of the sorta things that we could buy for our piece, Jack had a few odd little bits of clothing lieing about but nothing too extreme. Here are some photos that look similar to the pieces that we found in the shops.

Under shirt

Over shirt

Coat

Trousers

ShoesWe realised however that if you were in the 60's you wouldn't have needed to have dressed like you were in the 60's because you were, the fashion was just there for you to decide what to wear. Nowadays however we have to try harder to make it look like we are filming a piece in the 60's as it has to be historically accurate (ish.) We realised we maybe should tone the colours and general vibrance of the clothes down for our film as they looked to stereotypically 60's and begun to look like someone was trying to hard to look like they came from the 60's Coincidentally this would be the look we would want to go for as he is trying to convince everyone that he is from the 60's even though he is not. I think the clothes we chose for our piece will only be a segment of his overall wardrobe as it is only one segment of the film, we would be able to get more vibrant and odd as the film went on.