The Child:
The child in the film
will be aged between 7-9, this means that because of the innocence of the age
we can play on this in the film. The pink feminine colour plays up the
child-like characteristics, as ours is a modern horror we felt best to use
jeans and a top instead of a dress, also because to give our film a more gothic
feeling it will be filmed in the winter. This means it will be easier to bring
that ‘scare’ factor.
The white t-shirt
connotes innocence and purity. The brown boots add to the effect of the outfit
as they finish it in a darker way, a subtle hint to the plot twist to come.
The wig we used was
brunette/red this is because we wanted to have a natural colour that matched
with our autumn setting. The colours of brown red and orange are all autumn
colours that all connote warmth.
The inspiration for the girls costuming is from Don't be Afraid of the Dark and the character Sally. We took the innocence inspiration from her and used this to influence our ideas of what to put on the girl. However we decided to twist this slightly and use some black colours as well. We did this because it linked the girl and the devil together, this bought a link to the audience and a subtle hint to what s going on.
The Father:
The father in our
film is quite young, this means that’s for him to be wearing a suit it would
not fit the image we are going for. He is quite wealthy and this is shown in
the way he dresses. A checked shirt and colour matching trousers shows his
co-ordination, blue is quite a cold colour and foreshadows the events to come.
To show that it’s a modern film and fits our genre he wear trendy trainers,
which are the same colour match as the rest of the clothes.
This subverts our expectation of a single father; he seems to have everything together.
The fact that the father is quite young and because we don’t
have older actors available to us so we have to use friends and family and even
our self means that we had use our own clothes for our scene, we chose white as
a base colour for the jumper because we felt that this was a good colour to
show up against the dark tones and backgrounds of the film.
For the mans role and costume we took inspiration from The Woman in Black and Kipps. We took the role of the father and based the costume fitting the period, obviously we didn't use the costume because of the time difference, but we liked the fact that the costume fit perfectly with the historical period, this is why we chose to stay modern and simple with Christopher's outfit.
The Estate Agent:
The estate agent in
the film will be female, we felt for her to wear a pant suit it would make her
more masculine and we don’t have a female lead in the film already. Therefore
we chose a skirt and blazer combination. We chose a woman to show how far
modern society has come and how women are capable of typically ‘masculine’
jobs. Brown/burgundy has been used to connote autumn and warmth.
This plays up the already known
‘motherly’ attachment that the child no longer has. Because of the scene with
the estate agent being outside in the night time, the outfit wasn’t as
important as the others, greens and blues were used to show the nature side of
it as well as the browns for warmth, she is a kind hearted person and this
outfit shows that to the viewer, especially as she is the only female figure of
the film.
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