Directions: Pre-Production- Costume Design

COSTUME DESIGN

For this project, it is very important that I get the costume design right. Below I have listed my plans for costume design.


Walter White:

In my chosen scenes Walt has an overall dark theme. Both scenes are heavily linked to death and murder. At this point in the show, Walt is turning into a very sinister man; his character is doing things he'd never have done previously; and now Walt is at a dark point in his life. Walt's costume design, with the dark colours, perfectly embodies this. Here are some examples:

Black Shirt

Black jeans

Black shell jacket

Black boot shoes

Gus Fring:

In my chosen scenes Gus is dressed in one of his many suits. His suit in this scene is grey. Grey is the colour between black and white, or the way I see it, Gus is the man in the middle of good and evil. On the good side, Gus runs a fast food chain and nobody suspects a thing. On the bad side, Gus is the head of a major drug operation and has murdered numerous people to stay at the top of the chain. Gus's costume design in this scene perfectly represents this. Here is an example:

Grey Suit

And finally, here is something I find quite interesting. It's a colour chart that documents the changes in colour schemes for each of the main characters throughout the run of the show. It shows you how important costume design is and shows you how each character's colour scheme represents how they were feeling at certain points throughout the story.