Film Opening Task - Costume & Hair/Make-Up Ideas and Experimentation


Costume
There are some typical costumes for characters in horror films, you would expect to see any little girl wearing a white dress with blood on it and her hair long and over her face such as the grudge, Samara from the ring and Regan from the Exorcist. Costume plays a big part in audiences identifying the antagonist at a glance, Freddy Kruger is famous for wearing a red and green striped jumper with knives for fingers and Jason from Friday the 13th wears a hockey mask which makes them both easily identifiable and famous. The clear style of a characters costume can quickly show audiences whether the character is good or evil.  
For our horror opening we knew we wanted to incorporate some effects makeup as a way to demonstrate gore in horror. Initially, we wanted to go to a butchers and buy pig intestines or a sheep's heart, but then we decided this was too messy and gross and I had a fake heart we could use instead. From the beginning we knew the killer needed a mask, mainly to hide his/hers identity, and we bought a mask early on in the process of developing our film which was in the final costume. Similarly, we knew the killer would have to wear all black to create a sense of mystery and anonymity, which wasn't hard to achieve. We planned I would do effects makeup on an actor because we wanted the scene to be gory and chilling whilst trying to be realistic at the same time, this was also followed through in the final makeup. Hair was never an important part of our opening and we never discussed any ideas because it wouldn't add anything to our scene. We briefly discussed the characters would need to wear clothes that would suit a woods environment and would suit their real ages, which we also followed through into filming.

Influences:

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