Cinimatic Storytelling: Wardrobe

This section of the text discusses wardrobe and how it is used in many different and important ways in film. If wardrobe is to be made important in a film, it must be done very carefully. Accuracy is very important in cementing an idea that a time period exists. The text references a "Wardrobe continuum" in which the wardrobe comes up as reference multiple times in the film. Certain wardrobe items (like a glove, as exampled in the text), can be used repetitiously in order to make a statement about the mental state of a character or to display the way a character has changed over time.

Wardrobe and costume are very important factors in creating something that looks real and believable, and can heavily influence the way an audience perceives a film or scene.

I would like to reference the film "Macbeth" Starring Patrick Stewart filmed as a TV adaptation of a stage version directed by Rupert Goold. This is a full retelling of the classic Macbeth story, the script is entirely the same as the original, but the use of costume and set changes the feeling of the story entirely. By dressing the characters in this period-accurate Russian commoner and military garb, the entire setting of the plot is altered without ever making any changes to the actual story.