Costumes

Costumes

As established in the props section, the costumes that the characters wear should portray their personalities and should immediately give the audience an idea of the kind of people they are. Both the victims in the trailer will not have much common sense, and will generally have no idea what is going on the whole time. I think that the clothing that I choose for them should represent this idea. As such I think quite silly clothing would be the best option, to immediately present the characters as being somewhat out of it. This will immediately give the audience a picture of what the characters are like. Under costumes I will also obviously have to consider what the mask is like for the villain. As stated in props, the mask should be comical but should still look professional and look as though it could belong in the horror genre.
Over the next few weeks I will be buying the costumes and specifically analysing them, stating why I chose them, why I think they are suitable for the trailer and how they stick to genre conventions.


Analysing specific costume choices

Villain costume - Pig mask with black clothing

I have gone into more detail on why I have chosen the pig mask as my villain mask in my props section. To summarise, I decided to use it as I think both horror and comedy aspects can be taken from simply seeing the mask. It looks frightening, however comedy values are also definitely there, as having a man dressed up as a pig and trying to kill people is ridiculous, as is having a villain dressed as a pig in general.
I think the black clothing that will go with the pig mask will add to the intimidation of the costume. The blackness will make the villain look even more frightening, as well as clearly identifying that the actor in the pig costume is in fact the villain, as some of the audience may still be unclear. This will be clear because the dark clothes will contrast strongly with the clothes that the victims are wearing.
















(Final villain costume)



Victims costumes - Bright clothing

The victims will wear quite bright clothing, such as blue coats and bright trainers. They may also wear colourful items such as sunglasses and bands on their wrists. This is done to contrast strongly with the villain, who will predominantly be wearing black clothing.
I think that this use of bright clothing will help to exploit the comedy aspect of the trailer. As the villain is wearing a dark, evil looking costume, the comedy aspects of the trailer need to be carefully placed in to the trailer within other areas, to compensate. A good area to exploit is the clothing of the victims.
As the victims are going to be quite foolish and low in intelligence, I think the clothing should try and help convey this. I think having bright clothing does make the characters look somewhat more foolish, as it presents them as more whacky and out of the ordinary. Even though the clothing will be bright, it will be quite plain as well, to help portray their lack of common sense and intelligence in general. As the trailer goes on and becomes progressively dark, the victims may lose some items of their clothing (perhaps signifying that they have been attacked), so they end up looking more serious and less comical by the end. This could act as a metaphor for the layers of comedy being stripped away as the horror theme progresses within the trailer.
Overall, I am aiming for the victims to look quite cheesy and foolish, and hopefully this will add to the overall comedic effect of the trailer.

















(Final victims costumes)