'Costumes'

To show the difference in the two ego's in the trailer, Dan obviously had to wear two different costumes.

The first costume, worn by the character in the woods, is made up of a stripy jumper, a Duffle coat, jeans and Converse.

 

 

This was to try make the character look as 'normal' as possible... Apparently, Duffle coats are also associated with Britishness - which may give a hint the film would be set in Britain, if it were real? Duffle coats are also quite big and protective from most elements, which implies the character is vulnerable - like Paddington Bear (who also wore a Duffle coat), so also the character could come across as quite endearing.

 

The second costume, worn by the alter ego, is a black and white suit.

 

This was intended to imply a sense of authority - smart attire assumes a position of power, and someone with knowledge. Similarly, it adds a sense of suaveness and smoothtalk with insincerity - the personality of the alter ego. Sort of supposedly quite friendly looking, but at the same time authoritative and sneaky - ready to betray his other self.

Recce locations

Location:
My room...

For the scenes with the alter-ego putting on the facepaint stuff I only wanted a plain white background (to make them the main focus so there were no distractions), so, using my initiative (if you can call it that), I stuck some A3 sheets of paper to my bedroom wall and used that as a backdrop. Va-la.

 

(Dan amongst the mess...)

Before we started out, I did some (fairly awful) sketches, to try show Dan what we were aiming for... 

 

And here's some examples of what came out:

 

  

  

 

Recce locations

Time to start working backwards now, I guess...

Location:
Los Altos Park, Sandown.

 

I chose Los Altos park for the 'walking in the woods' scenes because it's a stones throw from the school, and it has a super nice bunch of trees (see above and below) that are all skinny and tall - so no leaves or bushes obstructing shoots, but it'd still be fairly obvious where we were. There's also a permanent carpet of leaves on the floor, that make quite nice for swooshing through. It also helps to add to the idea that the woods are methaphorical in the characters head - he's having to stumble and struggle through the leaves like he is through his problems? (or just life in general, maybe?)

  

 

These pictures I took, but it was about eight in the morning and raining, so forgive the poor quality... Better ones can be found here:
(website: http://www.invectis.co.uk/IOW/losalt1.htm)

So, here's some screen shots from the footage I took, and you can better see what we did shots-wise.