Yesterday was my first meeting with director Iona Smith about her filming project Sleep, and I have to say especially from a costuming perspective its a pretty good one! Three main characters need costuming; the main character with changing costumes over the course of days passing in the film, one character remaining the same throughout, and one with minor changes, as the last two are (excitingly enough) hallucinations!
Yes, this is a film that would probably give me nightmares, definitely a go-to for horror fans, working on it is going to be a great one, and there are going to be a wide range of people to work with including make-up people creating prosthetics - I am very much looking forward to this after the work I did with Louise Ashton who was our head of make-up for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' back when I was at University, who did some beautiful prosthetics and designs for us, and can't wait to see prosthetics used again for something so different as I have to say I find prosthetics fascinating.
The main characters are our central hub character Ruth, Seduction (visually really not what the name implies), and Puppet. Seduction is the same costume throughout, and Ruth is going to be fairly standard contemporary clothing, Puppet is the one that I can see needing the most sourcing. As a nightmare character, he is fascinating, from a character and costume perspective I am going to have a lot of fun making the 'wooden crossbar' to hold him up, I'm going to be drawing on the model making and costume-prop experience. Yes, this is indeed a puppet with strings and for those who now have 'got no strings' in their heads I really don't blame you I was exactly the same! During the filming there is going to be continuity to factor in, and a scene breakdown for costume to come. With the filming next month, and my next meeting with the director within the next couple of weeks, its an exciting time.
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