Costumes, makeup and editing.




The film I have chosen to concentrate on for makeup, costume and editing is Gladiator the opening scene. First of all it all seems very historically accurate with all the Roman soldiers wearing there armour and carrying there weapons and the more important soldiers like the generals wearing more decorated armour and helmets, the emperor who sits at the back of the army is the one who is most elaborately dressed wearing bright colours and stands out, this part is slightly inaccurate as he would at the very least be wearing armour as he is in a battle environment.

When the German army comes out of the woods, they are wearing rougher clothing to that of the roman army, this again is historically accurate as the Romans were the most advanced civilisation at that time and the Germans along with nearly the rest of the world still lived in smaller communities and tribes.

During this opening scene I didn’t notice much of the makeup at the start of the film as there are many camera shots from a distance to fit in the huge army but they did have a beheaded head that looked very real, and they have towards the end of the battle made the soldiers look all worn out and bloody, for example the stab wounds and the injured soldiers lying all over the place.

I feel the editing in this film in the opening scene is the best part, as the Romans fire flaming pots and debris at there enemies and set the whole woods on fire just behind the German soldiers, I don’t think they did this for real as it would have been very hard for the actors and extras to do there job when there is a big set of woods is on fire right next to them, plus I don’t think they would of got the permission to set the woods on fire and if they did then it would have been very expensive.

To me this opening scene in Gladiator shows the viewer the costumes, makeup and editing really well and shows us what the film has in store, as this all happens in the first ten minutes.