Final Poster Design

Here is our final design for the promotional poster;

We created this by editing the background image on Photoshop then adding the font using PaintShop Pro. The font for the title 'Thick Skin' was downloaded from free font website dafont.com

Costume; Final Idea

After doing our research into existing "tough" female characters in British drama, we finally came up with our own idea for a costume for our protagonist. We researched young 'tough' females that we thought our character was most similar too, for example Whitney from Eastenders and Mia from Fishtank.

The majority of young teenagers in British drama films wore blue or grey tracksuit bottoms and a hooded top/jumper. We felt that this was a code and convention that we needed to follow so that our costuming fitted with our chosen genre.

We also found that a common feature of costuming from British Drama films for young 'tough' female characters was gold jewellery, consisting of gold rings, hoop earrings and chains. However, the jewellery was not classes as expensive, it can be seen as 'cheap and tacky' jewellery. After vigourous costume research we also found the most common hairstyle used for young 'tough' females was a slicked back high ponytail, for example Whitney from Eastenders.

Our main inspiration for our costuming for our young 'tough' female was Whitney Dean from Eastenders and Mia from Fishtank. Our final costume idea consisted of blue ellese tracksuit bottoms, these were similar to those worn by Mia. We paired the tracksuit bottoms with a plain white vest top and a patterned hooded jacket. The vest top and jacket was similar of those worn by Whitney, represented in the picture on the left. We felt it was necessary to use exsiting characters as inspiration as they portray the codes and conventions we need to follow so our costuming fits in with the British Drama genre. It could also be seen as a stereotypical outfit from a 'tough' street teenager.

We also accessorised the outfit with some gold jewellery, we used gold hoop earrings, a gold chain and a gold ring. It was gold jewellery that was not expensive, it had the 'cheap' and 'tacky' look people associate with young 'tough' females from the lower class. After collecting research we decided the hairstyle we was going to use was the typical scraped back high ponytail that we had seen before in existing characters.

In deciding our final costume idea we conducted research of existing young females from the British Drama genre, we did this as we felt we needed to include all the codes and conventions of costuming for our character. We included as many features that we could so the costume would fit correctly with our genre.