Costume

When looking at costume we wanted a costume that was very typical of a modern teenager as well as something you could maybe expect within a horror-thriller film. Therefore we wanted our protagonist to be wearing something basic and plain. For example leggings, jeans, jumpers, t shirts etc. Furthermore  we also wanted casual plain colours. For example we decided we wanted some kind of white upper garment - like a white jumper or top.

The white jumper below is like the jumper our protagonist wears throughout the opening. We chose this as  jumper can seem 'home'ly' as well as it being a casual piece of wear that is communal worn by teenage girls and women of all ages in modern society. Furthermore we decided we wanted it to be a white jumper as this would represent purity and innocence because of the social connotations and general associations with the colour white. We thought the white would represent innocence and angelic like almost like an angel or a dove.

Furthermore these are the type and style of jeans that our protagonist will be wearing throughout also. We thought this was fitting as she is meant to be represented as just typical female teenager of a modern society and jeans are the most ideal, casual and normal trousers for them to wear. Therefore we also thought this was better than leggings and any pyjamas as pyjamas would show its her house whereas we want to show she is a babysitter and this isn't her own house therefore wearing clothes to go out but as if it is her own household as she is used to babysitting there. Furthermore leggings are associated with more lower class and are too casual. Moreover typical leggings are black and in some low key lighting it is then harder to see her legs and what she is doing. Therefore making us decide that navy blue jeans are the most ideal.

Evaluation:

From my group members work I can see that the both the jumper and the jeans are both very casual pieces of clothing which is the effect we wanted to go for. The costume is also typical for young adults and teenagers to wear as it is comfortable yet stylish. The reason we decided to use a casual costume is because we wanted to keep a sense of realism for the audience, which we wouldn't have got if we used an unrealistic costume. For our opening realism is very important as when analysing horror films and thrillers we found that one of the aspects that makes them so scary is because the characters and setting are based on everyday people which automatically links the characters to the audience. Another reason we wanted to have a casual costume is because our setting is a typical middle class house and the costume fits in with the typical middle class feel. In contrast to this we didn't use a dressy upper class costume as it wouldn't have fitted in with our setting.