COSTUME

Season 5, episode 6
Summary: Owen Hunt has been made the new head of trauma at Seattle Grace and has already caused a stir by making the interns and residents practice trauma precedures on life pigs, which offended Izzie. Derek and Meredith were going through her mums old stuff and came across an 'anatomy Jane' doll which enabled Meredith to come up with a solution to cure an inoperable tumour on a 10 year old girl. Alex and Izzie decide to not see other people

The costume for the majority of the characters are scrubs (as they are in a hospital). However these uniforms vary between people
In the episode today you can see that the attendings (Sloane, Derek, Hunt and Erica) all wear Navy blue scrubs with a white doctors coat. The residents and interns wear pale blue scrubs, with most of them wearing a doctors coat. This shows the hierarchy of the doctors and enables you to determine who is who, or what status they are if a new character is introduced. The Chief wears trousers and a smart shirt showing he is at the top of the hierarchy and doesn't need to wear scrubs all the time as he isn't involved with as many surgeries as the rest of them. In this episode however he is involved with a surgery and changed into navy blue scrubs. In the operatic room him, and Dr. Hahn have coloured/patterned scrub caps,rather than the standard blue ones-'lucky scrub cap'. This indicates that they have been working as surgeons longer and are more experienced than the other surgeons present. Hahn has colourful large polka dot scrub cap, which shows she is fun (when she wants to be). She never does a surgery without it and so make you believe she is superstitious. The Chief has a patterned dark blue scrub cap which is faded indicating he is the oldest and most experienced surgeon.

In the first scene Meredith and Derek are sorting through boxes of her mothers things.
We can see it is early morning:

• they are drinking coffee
• very bright outside
• each episode starts at the beginning of the day
• the next shot is of Izzie in bed
• From this we can determine that the clothse they are wearing are not the clothes they intend to be in all day

Meredith - Wearing an old college t-shirt, shows she is doing menial work and doesn't want to get any nice/new clothes ruined. 'Dartmouth' on her top shows she is intelligent as this is a top university in the US. The grey signifies the dullness of the occasion, as well as the sadness: shes's finally moving on from her mothers death. 'Dartmouth' is also in the past and so it's like she looking back to happier times-this is shown when she is looking through the boxes at old chilhood possesions. The trousers she has on are black and plain which denotates death and sadness.

Derek - Wearing scruffy jeans and a navy blue t-shirt. These are casual and very different to his normal look. His hair is scruffy and he is unshaven-another indication it is early morning.

In another scene a group of doctors are in the room of a young patient who has an inoperable tumour.

Patient- A Young girl aged 10. Wearing a hospital gown. She has had to have chemotherapy and has lost her hair, which is made even more apparent by the face she is wearing a head scarf. However her headscarf is purple and floral which shows she is still a child and she is girly. This creates more of a charcter for her rather than just another patient. Her makeup made her look really pale to show she was ill and rundown.

Her Parents- Her mum is wearing a purple top with a red cardigan and nice jewellery which shows she still has her standards. However her makeup reflected she was tired and she had scruffy hair as she was really at her wits end after being turned down by many different hospitals. The dad was wearing a brown striped shirt, but had really big bags under his eyes which again shows how tired he is. This reflects the sturggle for their daughters survival and shows that they have probably been waiting hours to see if she will be transferred. I think the way they have protrayed the parents was really good because it seemed so accurate. THey weren't completely breaking down but little subtlties showed how rundown they were.