Costume

The costume for our character and dancer, Ellen, is very important to the mise en scene. The bedroom scene features two costumes, an ordinary everyday costume in which you see her walking over to the ringing phone and answering it. The second costume is seen as she is putting it on in front of the mirror, this is her performance costume shown in the image below. As you can see, the dress she wore was very elegant and the design of the dress was loose and the light weight netted fabric allowed the whole dress to float as she moved. This was an ideal costume for our ballet scenes as we were aiming to have this style of dress to give a more dramatic effect against the lighting, the slow motion and the silhouette.