Versimilitude

In today lesson our teacher introduced us to a new concept called 'Verisimilitude'. As I was researching for police costumes and props, we had to make sure that we make the police as realistic as possible. 
The police costumes are so important to get it right so it doesn't look false. I had to remember that we are filming in the U.K, so I didn't want any American costumes, which were mostly coming up. I then researched on what our police in our country wear, remembering that it is a bank robbery. So I researched in to getting bulletproof black jackets which the police wear, when riots and bank robbery happen.  

Verisimilitude is a philosophical or theoretical concept that distinguishes the truth and falsity of assertions or hypotheses. In film verisimilitude is created through the costumes,set,props. These all create the audience to get swept up in the film and submerged within it. 
So I started to search the internet what the robbers wear when the a robbing a bank. There were many footage of the robbers in all in black with no skin on show. So as our thriller we want to take that on board and incorporate that image for our robbers. 

Therefore we started looking at what robbers actually wear, we did this by watching real footage of bank robberies on Youtube and looking at images on google.
We then realised that we also had to think about what type of policemen we want in our thrillers so that we can make our characters the most realistic they can possibly be and then determine the type of police uniform we need to invest in to create this realism.