Costume and Props

Costume

For our 2 minute opening to our film, we created a thriller. As few of our film influences came from the film Se7en we decided that just like their 2 minute opening that we wanted our male protagonist to stay unidentified and unknown to the audience. For this we had to make sure the costume choices revealed things about our protagonists as they were unable to access ideas from him. For this we decided to have him wearing a white lab-coat, as a group we decided on this because it then associated him with science which is known to be very weird and all about experiments which added a mysterious feel from our protagonist. We also had him wearing a black hat, which my group pointed out that it was known to be a mimic of the one Jack the Ripper was known to wear, this costume piece was then very effective as it enabled our audience to feel a thrilling effect from the unknown protagonist.

Along with this costume, we also had the children in the flashback wearing school uniform. We had done this to exaggerate the time change of which has undergone in the film. By having them in school uniform represents the innocence of the conventional children.

Props

The props that we decided to use for the two minute opening thriller film we created was ones of which would represent both the genre and the feelings we wanted to create towards the audience during this opening. To show the thriller genre through the props we had to think carefully as to what would enhance the audiences thrilling feeling when they saw a certain thing. For this we decided to use props such as a knife, drill and clamp along with many others, we thought that these props were quite violent when thought of and used in a certain way which would represent the typical thriller genre. 

We also decided that we would use arbitrary props that would portray the weird and mysterious feeling of which we also wanted to create. To generate this odd feeling towards the audience we added props like, glasses, a clock and balloons. Put together the difference of the two types of props worked extremely well and helped produced a superior thriller film opening.