Costumes

The costumes are an important part of the sequence because they need to represent the characters personality and they are the first thing the audience will notice about the character especially because we are planning on using little dialogue. We decided on what the each character should wear fairly quickly because we all had the same idea of what we wanted the characters to wear.

Firstly we wanted both the characters to wear normal everyday clothes so that the audience can relate to the characters which makes it seem that the story of the thriller could actually happen in real life which will hopefully frighten the audience. We also want both characters to look casual, which can be shown by the costumes. They are also meant to seem like ordinary normal people as well. We also wanted both of the characters to wear similar clothes so show that they are similar characters because they have a similar personality and lifestyle and I believe that if they wore the similar clothes then this point will be demonstrated well. As both characters are male we decided that they should wear dark colours because they are stereotypically male colours and show masculinity and power and dark colours also make it seem more scary because it gives the sequence a dark atmosphere which fits in with the thriller genre.

As we do not have a budget we cannot purchase any new clothes, which means we can only use clothes we already have or which somebody else lets us borrow for our sequence. We also thought that the murderers costume should definitely be dark to show that he has done something evil. The murderer is wearing a causal dark grey top which also has some black elements to it, and he is also wearing darkly coloured jeans, these colours have negative connotations and represent such things as death and this fits in with the genre of thriller. Black also symbolises mystery and it is a mystery as to why the murderer killed the victim which is why this colour fits into our thriller. The colour black is worn by the murderer and it represents evil, crime and power and the murderer clearly has power which is why he committed the evil crime of murder. These colours can also show the murders personality as being dark and evil. He also has his sleeves rolled up which suggests he was just performing an action and didn't want to get his sleeves dirty, this action could have been the murder.

The victim is also wearing a casual top, however his top is green which has connotations such as jealousy, which shows that the victim was possibly jealous of the murderer and tried to do something to the murderer which is why he murdered him. The victim will also wears jeans which are a similar style to the murderer which again shows that their personality is similar. The blue jeans the victim is wearing brings the connotation of sadness which is shown by an innocent man being murdered. Again the victim similar to the murderer has his sleeves rolled up and by this and similar clothes it shows that they have a similar dress sense and a similar personality.