Notes and images on props and costumes (initial)

We have selected a small blue bow for the young child to wear when she goes missing. The Blue represents the psychological thriller meaning, it represents water and mirrors which are most related to psychological thrillers. We also went for a light blue to connnote innocence for the young girl who will be wearing the bow.

At the end of the film opening, in the scene with the mother, father and the young child the father takes his briefcase showing he is a business man on his way out to work. We have selected a black case to make him look professional and show he works in a professional enviroment.

In the montage scenes there are scenes including a tick list of paper on a clipboard, the tick list has the titles on them, one by one getting ticked off. We will use a black clipboard to add a dark atmosphere to the scenes, connoting danger and death.

School uniform for little girl.

White shirt with grey pinifor and blue cardigan and tie

Tends to show innocence and symbolises genre.

In the media industry, childrens innosence is often exaggerated to further seperate them from the adult world to create an image of the 'baddies' and 'goodies' in the film.

This can be shown through the use of clothing so we have gone with a school uniform with colours that rae used to portray innoncece strongly.

 The main male in the film (dad) will be seen wearing a suit as he is a business man with a high authority job so he needs to be conveyed this way. In our opening, he is not seen as a major colour so a grey will be used for the suit. 

This shows a lab coat as the main woman in our opening (mum) as she is a scientist. The use of white clothing shows innocence and purity and could lead to suggest she is going to resolve the main issue of the storyline.

By using the colour white also shows how similar she is to the innocence of her child whcih would further portray her naivity towards the world and therefore making more a shock when she finds out things are not so.

The black hoodie will be used for the villain in our film as it immediately connotes darkness and evil. This could also suggest death.

We have decided to go for old tatty boots as they would come across scary to the audience. We may think about using the colour black instead of this light colour to portray the evil and darkness further,

We also thought about giving the villain a more normal dress sense as it contradicts the colour black and therefore contradicts the evil making him look less obvious to the audience. However, we have still included the colour red which connotes death and blue to incorporate the genre of the film but in a more casual sense.

Notes and images on props done by Laura Thomas
Notes and images on costumes done by Amy Welsh