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Wednesday, 18 December 2013

After researching into costumes we have decided that Maddison will be dressed in a white dress. She will also wear a red ribbon in her hear which will also be used as a prop in the film. The white dress implies the innocence we want Maddison to be made out to be as a young girl but the red ribbon will conotate danger is surrounded by the girl.

Scarlett will be wearing simple every day clothing in dark colours such as jeans and a t-shirt. We want her character to be seen as your everyday teen girl, and who you would suspect to be nothing extra-ordinary.

Dr.Lewis will be wearing smart trousers with a shirt and tie to suggest his job status.

Costume Research

Why are costumes so important?

Usually antagonists wear the same outfit throughout the film and then that particular costume is realted to that charcter.
The costume creates the representation of a character; so how you as the audience view them.
Gives you a sense of what time period the film is set in
Suggests what of previously happened to them in the film; for example rips or blood on the costume.
An idea of their social status (rich/poor etc..)

Ananlyse of the costume the girl is wearing in the Exorcist

The little girl is seen wearing a white night gown. The colour white is usually used to connotate innocence and purity. Children are usually seen as being innocent, so it supports this. However it is contrasting to the fact that the little girl being the antagonist. The antagonist is usually the one that causes the trouble and is the main focus or point of a horror film; so they are not really seen as being 'innocent'. There is also blood at the bottom of the girls gown. Blood being red connotates danger and pain. This being on the white gown could suggest the innocence is being taking away from the girl.

Ideas for Maddison's Costume:

Prop Research

In Orphan Esther uses a hammer to kill one of the charcters. As seen here:

A hammer is usually seen as being something distuctive. Usually used in building. Using it to kill someone as a prop gives you that sense of danger and brutal death. The hammer is seen as being more scary as you see it alone in shots from low angles making it seem more intimidating and controlling. Becuase the hammer is seen as a distructive object it suggests that she is destroying her.

In the final scene Ester tries killing of more characters. In this scene a knife and gun is used.

The knife is again shown in its own shot from a low angle as if its the point of view that the person who is being attacked can see. The knife has blood on again producing more fear to the audience; because one the colour red suggests danger and it being blood gives the feeling that someone has been stabbed by it.