Costume, Props & Lighting Elliot

We plan to use an office as a main location for the opening sequence of the film so we believe that the props, lighting and costumes should be related to office workers. We intend to use a suitcase, a conventional prop, in order to make a delivery within the office and a car/london cab as our main props. Obviously all other equiptment and stationary within the office would also be props but not brought ourselves.

Our costumes will be smart casual. Suit trousers with a shirt, no tie and perhaps a duffel coat. Many of the British gangster films we have studied the characters seem to dress smartly with expensive clothing.

The lighting we use will mainly be natural. We want to film during the day and therefore we should have light however as it seems to get dark quite early it may be that we have to use lamps to light up the scenes and show the characters in their 'true light.' However many of the best British gangster films are quite dark as the crime is often carried out at night and hiden. We may find that the dark will be useful for what we are planning.