Costume and Props

Costumes
Spirit: I used an old hospital ward cloak as my spiritual characters form of dress, this was due to it fitting well into the horror criteria and the whole illusion of a corpses spirit haunting the main victim within the movie. The colour of the cloak is white, this is a huge contrast to my characters outlook of being dark, deadly, evil etc. The white cloak emphasises there was once innocence within the spirit and the this enforces the questioning the audience will do whilst watching the movie.

Victim: For my victim i thought allowing to be dressed in her casual jogger clothes would be appropriate due to it emphasising that even in your own home and comfort your not safe, this would add more of a fear twist to my trailer. I dressed her in a baggy jersey top and leggings to show that she should be settled and comfortable having her tea, in bed, on the laptop etc. I believe i should of chose a better colour top than blue, due to it not being a good connotation to my horror genre.

Hair: For my spirit character i back combed her hair so it looked wild, brittle and unattractive. The main reason for this is to reinforce what she actually is, and to show to the audience she is in fact a spirit and she doesn't look after herself. There are other main priorities to sort out. Her hair also covered partly over her face, closing her identity and making the characters past more of mystery for my audience by not getting a full image of the antagonist. The Grudge was my inspiration for this look. On the other hand, i dressed my victims hair, tied back and loose up showing she's relaxed and at home. I thought this would add to her dress sense of the night making it clear she's getting disturbed in her own chill time.

Make-up: I made both of my characters make up simple and not to much in the audiences face, due to wanting to focus on the actual narrative than there make up. I chose this route due to my spirit not needing much make up due to having a large chunk of her hair over her face, if i was to change this i would of added black eye shadow round her eyes to create a more serious and deathly ill look for her. However, for my victim i used simple make up due to it being set at night time mainly and my victim was all dressed for chill/bed time. Therefore, make up wasn't a necessary big part for my characters identity.