Costume and props

 

This is the costume for the antagonist character in our Film opening piece. 

We decided that we wanted the costume to be mostly black and look menacing, so we opted for black jogging bottoms, a plain black t shirt and black work boots. We felt that boots would be more threatening than trainers as they are much larger in appearance and add to your height, which was especially important as our actor wasn't very tall.

Also, we knew that we needed a weapon for our protagonist character, which we originally wrote to be a gun. However, we decided that a gun would be impractical, as we would either have to pay a lot for a realistic looking gun, which would look good in the scene but cause issues regarding having a gun that looks like a real gun in our college car park, or we could buy a cheap gun that doesn't look good and will not be as effective in our piece. Because of this issue, we decided to opt for a machete, as we could find one for cheap that doesn't look real from close up, but from the distance we were shooting from looks real enough.

 

As we wanted the machete to be initially concealed then pulled out by the antagonist, we decided to add a long coat to his costume behind which he could conceal the machete.

We also felt part of his face should be concealed to keep his identity a secret, as he is intended to be a mysterious character, so we added a grey hooded scarf to the costume, which covers the bottom half of his face and his hair.

Our costume for our protagonist was much simpler and took less time to decide on.

 Here is her costume. We wanted to a portray her as a normal person, who was wearing everyday casual clothes when she was presumably kidnapped and mysteriously left in a car park. We contacted our actress prior to shooting and told her to wear casual clothes, specifically a t shirt, jeans and any casual shoes she felt like wearing, of which she chose casual boots.

We felt that not setting an exact costume for our protagonist would create a sense of realism in our piece, as these are the actual clothes of our actress, which she could be wearing if she got into this situation.

By Reece Hack