Costumes

Within the planning of our thriller, we needed to consider the clothing carefully of what our characters would wear, as the costumes create different ways in which the character is perceived.

We chose for the girl to wear; a short flowery skirt, a beige/white vest top, a beige cropped cardigan and white canvas shoes. We gave the girl the costume of a short flowery skirt, because the flowery pattern shows the girl is feminine and innocent, however by the skirt being short this shows a different side to her, the whole colour palette of her costume consists of pastel colours, this shows that she is girly and it does not represent a dark or bad side to the girl, therefore reinterpreting the fact that the girl is incredibly vulnerable within the story. The costume, also represents the girl a fashion concious and shows her youth, which re-enforces her occupation as a second year sixth form student.

We chose for the boy to wear; a black jacket, dark jeans and white trainers. We gave the boy the costume of a black jacket, because this represents the boy as being a dark and evil character to the audience. The dark jeans reinforces the boys characteristics of being dark and evil that are protrayed within the film, however the use of the light coloured trainers challenges these characteristics, as white is usually a colour that represents innocence, however in this case it does ont, they create mystery because they are of a different colour palette to the rest of his costume. Although the trainers are white and in this case do not represent innocence, they are showing the audience that there is perhaps a nice side to the boy, that we as an audience do not see. The costume, is also very casual and a very ordinary outfit, which will make the audience believe that he is just an ordinary boy, when he first appears within the mise-en-scene. The boys costume, also re-enforces the fact that he is a university student, because of his smart, but casual dress code and the fact that his costume consisits of mainly all black clothing, creates mystery and ambiguity, therefore leaving the audience to decide the personality of the boy.

This is the girls costume;

This is the boys costume;

By Louise McGee