Character profile and costumes

Research on females in the media
I carried out research on females in the media, and I come across and interesting article on this. Found here- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/women-in-the-media-female_n_2121979.html this articles study is taken from a new study that was collaborated between USC Annenberg and Green Davis Institute on gender in Media. They looked at female characters' occupations, attire, body size and whether they spoke or not. There results were as follows

• 44.3 percent of females were gainfully employed, compared with 54.5 percent of males.
• Women across the board were more likely to be shown wearing sexy attire or exposing some skin, and body size trends were apparent: "Across both prime time and family films, teenaged females are the most likely to be depicted thin,"
• The ratio of men to women in STEM fields was 14.25 to 1 in family films and 5.4 to 1 on prime time TV.
• Perhaps most telling are the percentages of speaking female characters in each media form: only 28.3 percent of characters in family films, 30.8 percent of characters in children's shows, and 38.9 percent of characters on prime time television were women.

Costumes
Costumes play a very important part portraying to the audience details about the characters, if they wore a police uniform the audience would instantly know the characters were police officers. So an outfit for a character effects greatly how the audience assumes the characters personalities. For the costumes our budget we had the price range from £20-£100, this was enough due to the costumes being fairly basic. We researched the high street shops and what where the most popular affordable coats and autumn wear, we then chose from the mainstream teenager's clothes shops what clothing we thought would suit the characters personalities.
Character Profile
Bethany-
Age:17
Date of birth:27/09.95
Height: 5ft6
Siblings: 1 brother named Ben
Lives with: Mother and brother.
The character of Beths personality has good critical faculty and she is able to stand back and look impartially at matters which call for an impartial judgment to be made on them. But Beth does not tolerate arguments from anyone who challenges her opinions, for once they have reached a conclusion, its truth seems to them self-evident; and among their faults is an impatience of criticism and a greed for approval. But her characteristics are on the whole balanced, diplomatic and even tempered. Beths interests, like most teenage girls are mainly social. She isn't seen without her phone and has a fair few friends that are boys. She doesn't show many interests in hobbies although has tried countless clubs from Karate to learning a new language, but doesn't attend for long. Beth likes to do activities that are mainly activities and has a strong head for heights.
But unfortunately due to the traumatic events that take place within the film, Beth's personality is lost as she becomes mentally ill. But nearer the ending of the film, she develops to become stronger and is mentally restored.
Charlotte-
Age:16
Date of birth: 23/06/96
Height: 5ft4
Siblings: 3 brothers, 1 sister. Mark, Jason, Tom and Jasmine
Charlotte is born into a large family her home is very warm and filled with love, for its inhabitants tend to favour comfortable type of house a place which belongs to the family rather than existing as a showcase to impress visitors. Although Charlotte has grown up surrounded with family members, she can also be very reserved and because of this she can sometimes appear thick-skinned and unemotional, but she is the complete opposite, she just doesn't show it. But those who are very close to Charlotte (Beth) a very different character compared with others, she sees Charlotte as someone who is sympathetic and kindly sensitivity to other people, especially her family. Charlotte is very imaginative and can often over-imagine and is prone to fantasy, sometimes distracting her from what is happening around her. Charlotte's interests are not as much social compared too Beth's, but she has a passion for horses and that is her main hobby. She has attended countless shows and performed and one many too. Her, her mother, and siblings all work at a local stables and own many horses that perform.
James
Age: 19
Date of birth: 24/11/93
Height: 6ft
Siblings: 1brother, 1sister. Jack and Megan.
The character of James isn't shown until later on in the film. At the end he becomes Beths partner, and he helps her recover mentally. James is enthusiastic about life. He is friendly, warm and seeks to make other people feel good too. James tends to be generous with information as they are with gifts. They tend to be optimistic, bright and sociable. His life quest is to experience life to the full - incorporating adventures: mental and physical. He have a high degree of adaptability making his personality strong. This is why he is capable of helping Beth and doesn't stop fighting until he has her. This is due to his strong character and any other typical person wouldn't be able to cope. His main interests are cars, and his hobbies include football. He plays football regularly every weekend with all his closest friends on his team. He attends University at The University of Kent and takes a course on Architecture.

The main character (Beth) of our film is a teenage girl around the
age 16-17,  she will be a stereotypical young girl who is bubbly
and happy with  a clean girly natural clean appearance. We also
decided to having  a neat pristine appearance represents her
upper-class background.  We chose skinny jeans form Miss
Selfridge, plain pink top from New Look, brown ankle boots
from H&M, black side bag form Select and a Navy hooded
coat from River Island. As we already had the Coat, shoes
and bag available to us we only had to purchase the plain
bottoms and top; this came to a total of £35. 

Due to the character of charlotte being fairly shy and timid, we used
dull colours that weren't outstanding and bright, and made sure she
was fairly wrapped up to reflect her timid personality. We
purchased the basic grey cardigan and black leggings from New
Look for a total of £25.00. We already had the shoes available and
the coat which we thought was subtle and saved us money.