Costumes for our thriller opening

Our thriller opening required four different characters, and because there were only three members in the group I had to wear two different costumes. 



This was the first of our costumes, it was me dressed up in all black with a white mask with two eye holes and a mouth hole cut out. Because it will be filmed at night, the white will stick out and contrast the subtlety of the all-black costume. The film is called pestilence, which specifically means a danger or disruption to society, and generally a community will have two different sides to it - this costume has two opposite colours; reflecting that this character should be a disruption to all of society. In the darkness, this costume will not show anything behind the front of the mask, meaning any identity is completely concealed, a popular convention for villains in the thriller genre.

This is my second costume, on the second period of filming I will be acting as a detective, a vital figure of any community when villainous crimes are committed. I will be wearing black and white in this scene again, however with much more white this time, being completely opposed to the murderer in terms of both dress and allegiance. The smart clothing also acts as an important signifier that this is an important character to the audience. 


















Toni's costume is also relatively smart - this is because she is the second detective and an important character. Almost everything applies from my costume to her's because we are playing similar roles - however it twists the idea that influential and federal characters should be males and not females, by doing this we are reversing conventional gender stereotyping.




















Hayley is playing the role of the victim in our thriller opening, and as such she is wearing casual clothes that show what her character is like - in the sequence she will be conventionally murdered so there is no particular dress code. She is wearing several layers because it will be a cold night, this is logical.