Costmes and props: The Victim

The type of costume you choose for a character is very important because it can help the audience to get to know the character. the audience can instantly pick up on their class, gender, age etc by the first look of their costume. The choice of costume we have picked I think conforms to our characters cliches and conventions.For our victim, Charlotte is walking home form school like every other normal day. So through the use of her appearance we aim to have the character wearing a school uniform as a costume so it would show that the character is vulnerable and innocent to what is going on.
From our research, we have decided that by wearing a school uniform, it adds to the realism aim of our scene, this will make the opening scene more ominous and scary as the audience will not expecting what will happen.

We believed that the obvious choice of props for the victim is a school bag, it gives the effect that the victim is conforming to her everyday routine of walking home from school. This again adds to the realism aim of our film, even though our genre is a horror we do not want it to look out of the ordinary or spontaneous because it may lose the scary aspect we wanted to achieve. We later decided that to make the scene more realistic, Charlotte should fall over and drop her bag while running away from the victim, despite it being realistic it also links to the conventions of a horror as the victim usually falls over, allowing the antagonist to catch up with them.