Costume

The costume for our characters are going to be deliberately casual and normal, they will reflect a typical outfit of a middle class young English couple who live in Brighton but are not too fashion conscious themselves or aware of their appearance, whilst appearing effortlessly attractive at the same time.

GRACE

At the beginning of the film, Grace is 21 and is at university (with Isaac). She will be dressed in clothes typically worn by students, such as baggy cardigans and jumpers and jeans or simple skirts. The weather will be cold as we are filming in October and November, so she will have to also have a coat or jacket of some sort. We will be allowing Thea to wear her own clothes for the scenes in which she is a university student because she is a university student so owns the appropriate clothes.

However, when Grace grows older and gets a job, she will be dressed differently in the way that she will have more dull, grey clothes such as work suits which look slightly shabby and reflect the fact that her and Isaac’s relationship is on the rocks and they are no longer the happy, young, free loving couple they used to be.

Grace when she is young:

Grace when she is older and working:

ISAAC

Similarly to Grace, Isaac will be wearing student-esque clothes when he is a young student which will reflect his potential financial struggle that most university students face. He will get a high flying job in the city, so will start to wear suits similar to Grace’s although he will look stressed which can be reflected by his costume looking worn, and we will try and make his face look older and under lots of stress as him and Grace’s relationship starts to deteriorate due to financial and general struggles.

Isaac when he is young:

Isaac when he is old:

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Character Personalities

Grace:

• For Grace, we need to show a clear shift in personality throughout the trailer, because obviously her deteriorating mental state is the key reason to the downfall of their relationship.
• When we first meet Grace, we need her to be a bold and confident character with lots of energy. As the audience first meets her at university, she needs to be cheerful and excitable. By exaggerating this side of her personality, the divide for when she goes downhill will be clearer
• After leaving university and when she starts in an office job, we need her to become gradually completely different to the Grace's original personality - she becomes bored, unhappy and has little motivation and energy.
• Throughout the final third of the trailer, Grace needs to be a radical character who is changeable, angry, aggressive as well as extremely low and depressed. This phase of Grace's character needs to be completely unrecognisable from the first phase of Grace that we are introduced to, showing a character who is completely lost and estranged from happiness.
• Influences of character: Cindy in 'Blue Valentine', April in 'Revolutionary Road.'

Isaac:

• We want to show that throughout the relationship, Grace has always been the more extreme and energetic half, whether happy or unhappy. Therefore, at university, Isaac needs to be equally cheery but also more calm and caring than Grace. He possibly is less confident than Grace so that we see him change throughout the trailer and their relationship/ We want the audience to like him to show a divide of his character as well but not as clearly defined as Grace's.
• He needs to become more confident as his job begins to grow and he fits in more happily than Grace. He also needs to be more outgoing and happy to meet and hang out with people at work so that it becomes clear he doesn't want to go home to Grace a lot of the time.
• Through the final stage, he needs to become progressively more irrational and upset at Grace's behaviour, resulting in him deserting her. 
• Influences of character: Jacob in 'Like Crazy', Frank in 'Revolutionary Road'

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Character - Isaac

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