Sweet Dreams - Costumes

El Cucuy

Costume

Maybe a three piece suit or just a regular suit to appear well presented and smart which contrasts from his distorted facial appearance of clown make-up and scars etc. This will work well as most clowns wear very colourful and flamboyant costumes, these can sometimes appear very comical which isn't what we want for our piece.

We also want his make up to be very distorted as El Cucuy shares a lot of similarities to The Joker from DC's Batman franchise. The reason I think a suit would work well is because it would represent him well, the suit represents him trying to cover up his insanity and the distorted make up represents his true personality. He'd remain in this costume throughout the piece.




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Pigman

Costume

Old, tatty, ripped clothes almost as if he's been living rough from months. This works as the Pigman is an experimental creature created by El Cucuy and acts as his servant, he'd also be wearing leather groves to cover scars all over his hands.




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Skullfaced Man

Costume

He'd be dressed in a smart black suit with a white shirt and a slim fit black tie. This contrasts from the Pigman's appearance, the reason for this is that the Skullfaced Man is of a higher hierarchy and towers over and controls the Pigman.




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Jamie

Costume

Jamie has three changes of costume during out short film, during the first scene he's wearing jeans, a t-shirt and a leather jacket as he runs through the graveyard and into the street but when he suddenly wakes up, thinking the nightmare is over he's dressed in tracksuit bottoms, a t-shirt and throws on a hoodie when he leave his room towards the light.


He'd continue to wear this costume through the short film until the very final scene where he wakes up in the classroom in which he'd be wearing either the exact same as the opening scene or something very similar, the reason for the costume change is this scene is used to trick the audience into thinking his nightmares are over which can be suggested by the costume change and the surroundings but he has in fact slipped into another nightmare.




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