Costumes/Appearances of Characters

Victim/Protagonist

We decided to have our protagonist wear ‘normal’ or ‘everyday clothes’ to make her more familiar to the audience, as she could be one of them. Making the protagonists fate in the beginning, all the more worrying and frightening.

We chose to keep the protagonist’s costume relatively light – separating her from the antagonist, and showing her as a more positive character or victim.

Antagonist

We decided our antagonist should wear darker coloured clothes, to fit in with the horror genre and the atmosphere of mysteriousness and to show to the audience that the character was a ‘bad guy’, as darker clothes are a convention of villains.

We decided that by wearing a hood and concealing the face of the character, further suspense and mysterious would be built from the audience not knowing the identity of the antagonist (a convention of horror).

We chose not to have our antagonist hold or show any form of weapon, which may have been typical of the horror genre. This was to create an air of uncertainty, as the audience is left wondering, what exactly the antagonist has done to the protagonist.