Costume Design + Casting

We have now filmed several scenes and have made costumes for two out of three characters. Below are the costumes and actors for Falling Girl and mini Falling girl. The older falling girl is a friend from school and then we needed to find a younger version of her for the film. Nathan knew the right person for the job, his younger cousin. We got permission from both the parents to film their daughter falling off various objects, we filmed all we needed for mini Falling girl in one day.


























1. Simple t-shirt with superhero logo. Falling Girl is a simple superhero. 
2. Tom boyish dungaree/skirt
3.Tall socks inspired by Pipi long stockings
4. Black converse with pink insides 
5. Not shown in picture but she will have skate boarding pads and various plasters to show that she falls quite a lot. 


We wanted Falling girl to be 'girly' but at the same time be a bit of a tom boy because she would be falling over quite a lot and she is getting used to grazes and cuts.


The making of the T-shirts.

I made these t-shirts by simple transfer paper. I printed the logo's I created backwards on the paper and ironed them on in the centre of the t-shirt. The pink t-shirt cost £2 and the smaller one cost 0.75p from Tesco. The transfer paper cost £5.

Music

One of the top priorities was to find the right music to go with my film. I have been looking for music for a while now, the track needed to have a fast tempo and without lyrics because the film is going have a voice over and I did not want  to take the attention away from that. After a lot of time of searching through instrumental albums and soundtracks I found this track on Spotify. It is 'Smiley Faces' by Gnarls Barkley. I found the instrumental version on Spotify and below is the karaoke version because I could not find the instrumental version on Youtube but it is close enough. :)


 

Falling Girl And The Ear Logos

These are the Logo's we are going to print on to the superheroes tops, like Superman's 'S'.  Currently I have produced three logos one for Falling Girl and two for The Ear. Personally I am inclined to go for the logo that has the one ear. I designed the logo's to be similar because I wanted it to be clear to the audience that both characters wearing these logos are Superheroes.
I made Falling Girls logo red because its could be either masculine of feminine. I did this because when I think of the character of Falling Girl I see her being a bit of a tom-boy seeing she is falling over all the time.
The font I used is a font which I downloaded from Dafont.com, its a standard comic book font in bold yellow.

The Ears logo had to obviously have something to do with an Ear. So I took a close up photo of an ear, uploaded it to photo shop and applied a 'cut out' filter to give it a more comic book effect. I also downloaded this font from Dafont.com. I chose this font because I think it has a good bold effect to it and its more dynamic than the comic book font. I want it to be more dynamic than the comic book font because I see The Ear as a more complex and sophisticated character in comparison to Falling Girl.

    

Falling Girl

Falling Girl is the name of the short film we are currently producing for our Film Studies AS.
The Original story comes from Andrew Kaufman's Book "All My Friends Are Superheroes"

Here is how it is originally written in the book:

Falling Girl

Falling Girl won't go higher than the second floor of any building. She's never set foot on a balcony and the floor is the only place she'll sit. A small sample of things she's fallen from include trees, cars, grace, first-storey windows, ladders, bicycles, The wagon , countless kitchen counters and her grandmother's knee

Smoking besides the Ear (another super hero) one winter night, she wiggles deeper under the sheets and admitted the only thing she's never fallen from, or into, was love. 'If that's how you do it, I would have done it.' she said. Then she leaned over to butt out her cigarette and fell out of her bed. 


And this is a rough draft of the script for ours.

Falling Girl
 You would be surprised how many people have a superpower; somebody close to you may even have one. They aren’t all amazing like super strength, but a super power is an ability that is unique to that person. For example Falling Girl. Falling Girl has an amazing capability to fall from anything and has fallen from everything. Falling Girl won’t ever go higher than the second floor of any building. She never set foot on a balcony and the floor is the only place she will sit. A small sample of things she has fallen from includes trees, cars, the school stage, her piano teachers stool, Santa knee, first storey windows, the charts, stairs, ladders, the stock market, bikes, countless kitchen counters and grace. 
One winter night when she was in bed with the Ear, (The ear is another super hero, whose power is that he can hear anything up to a mile away, but he was also Falling Girls boyfriend at the time.) Falling Girl got deep under the covers and admitted the only thing she’s never fallen from, or into, was love. ‘If that’s how you do it, I would have done it,’ she said. Then she leaned over to turn off the light and fell out of the bed.