Costume

In our thriller we wanted our costume to be representative to everyday life to add to the verisimilitude of our thriller, although we added extra touches to give the audience an impression of who the character is. The main female character is going to wear black jeans, a black top and a blush pick faux fur coat. The all black basic outfit creates a sense of mystery and darkness, which hints at secrets and deception, which I thought went well with the entire thriller genre. The outfit is comfy and casual, although the fur coat added over the top creates a sense of luxury and feminises the character as well as demonstrating power.

As for extra touches, we wanted the character to apply her makeup throughout the opening of the thriller, to allow the audience to gain an almost concrete idea of who she is. The character is going to be wearing a dark red lipstick as well as expensive jewellery to demonstrate that she is a strong, independent women. I think that this style of costume is perfect for our targeted audience because it is young, playful and yet still remains quite everyday.

The other character in our thriller, won't have his outfit on show as he will be half buried under the duvet sheets, however one of his arms and legs will be visual and so we also needed to take into account what he was wearing. We decided to dress him in all black to create again a sense of mystery and imply secrets. The colour black could also used to represent death and darkness which is typical in the thriller genre. We were thinking of adding a trickle of fake blood down his hand, however we thought that this touch might have made our thriller boarder onto the horror side, and we also wanted to keep the narrative fairly ambiguous as to not give to much away right at once.