Costume Ideas

Our genre choice requires us to dress our actors in a very specific way and give them a specific look. To achieve a look that would seem authentic and legit, I recently visited a costume shop near-by - 'Dress to Party'.


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I decided to go to the store to look for any appropriate costumes or accessories that could be of use for our trailer. However, upon searching through the shop, I found that there were no western costumes that would be of use to us. I did, however, find some accessories such as guns and moustaches.

When I talked about it to my group, though, we decided that it would be better if we just used make-up to achieve that 'rough', 'rugged' look that most cowboys wear rather than the fake moustaches that would make it look less realistic. To affirm our decision, we experimented with make-up and decided that make-up indeed would be a better choice.

These are a few looks that we tried out:

For this first look, we tried to create the unshaven look with pencil eye-liner.

Here, we used mascara.

We decided to go with the mascara in the end as the strokes of the mascara brush created an effect that look more realistic than when we used the eye-liner. 

These are the make-up products that we used:

Geogie also went to a costume shop to find any props and costumes that would be of use to us. Contrary to my findings, she found some very good costumes, however, the problem, this time, was the prices. The costumes were out of our budget and we were unable to bargain for a better price. Therefore, we had to settle with having to pull together our own costumes from our own wardrobes.

Here are a few things we came up with for the potential costumes: