In the sixties this style of dress was exceedingly popular. Women would wear dresses, below knee length, with short to no sleeves. The dresses usually have a waistband around the middle to accent the woman's shape but the fabrics were thick and stayed in place giving a modest look to them. Patterns were used either as a printed pattern or the embroidery or texture. The colours are usually pinks or blue. This fits in with the original goldilocks costume we have in mind.

 

Other aspects to note are that girls fashion was a copy of adult fashion so there isn't much variation. The accessories they wore were very minimal usually just earrings in each ear. Girls usually had plain white socks under their shoes  Gloves were very common for both women and girls. Our film is set in the sixties so Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood will need to have costumes that fit into the similar style. Luckily Goldilocks' costume looks very similar to the above pictures. We will just need to add gloves and the appropriate shoes to make the costume complete. 

This is the warehouse that we will be filming at. This will be for the scene at the bottom of page 7. We chose the warehouse location as a place for Goldilocks to store the bear skins as warehouses are good places to hide items. 

As this warehouse will be used for office furniture we are going to use tight frame shots and have no establishing shots. This is because the only props we want to be the bearskins and chairs for the girls. For the audience to be able to see the location because of the scaffolding and the cement walls. 

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This is the location that we will be filming  the first scene of our short film. It is called The Island and is located in Bristol. Here is the website.

We chose this locations because it is able to give us not only a real police setting but because it has a very worn down aesthetic. The walls themselves have colour so after recording I will have to tone down the colour as the vibrate tones don't fit into the theme and genre of our film. 

The two characters that we are using that are based of fairytales are Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood. Both of these characters have big similarities and they are often seen together in drawings such as above.

Both the characters are portrayed as girls but both of the stories have been changed over time. Also both the stories take place in the woods with the girls more or less on their own. Lastly both stories include a wild animal that is seen as dangerous. Because of these similarities we want to have Red play a cameo in our short film.

This effect will help give the world that our film is set in slightly more depth by showing that there is more than one fairytale story that has been twisted.

Goldilocks’ costume from zoeellis

Here is a link to Jess' post about men's fashion in the 60s.

Here is a personal list of films that I shall watch that has some aspects similar to our film ideas. This will be separate from my research into films and existing conventions.

Click on the Names to see the IMDB profile of each film.

• Leon the professional
• Usual suspects
• Se7en

TV shows to watch

• Whitechapel

Short films to watch

• The Fly
• Prosopagnosia
• The offering