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Costumes

For our costume feed back, people said that the costumes were representative of the characters background, as well as describing the characters. However, some people said that it was difficult to tell who was who.

Locations

For location, people said that the majority of the locations made sense, but the kidnapping through the window didn't make sense.

Costumes

In our opening sequence, we decided to use costumes that represented the characters working class back ground, dressing in causal clothing. The main character wears everyday causal clothing, to give the impression that she has mental stability, which contradicts with the effects that we used over. Also, the children that we used to play the daughter of the main character and the main character as a child are wearing the stereotypical child's clothing.

We have made few changes to our characters costumes, simply because we wanted to display our characters as working class.

Audience feedback questions

Who is the boy?
The boy is the best friend of Naomi in 1990 as a eight year old girl.


Why is the older girl reacting the way she does?
She is mentally disturbed through what she has been through in her past.


Why is the girl playing with her?
The younger girl in the present day is playing with the ghost of the boy who was kidnapped in 1990.


What was happening with the man and the boy?
The man has kidnapped and killed the boy, known by the audience by the grave that is shown in the opening sequence.


Why does the sister take a tablet?
The person taking the tablet was the grown up girl featured in 1990. She has become a mother herself and is mentally unstable due to what happened in her past.

Why is she coming back to haunt her?
The boy who was kidnapped and killed has come back to haunt Naomi as an adult because she did nothing when he was kidnapped, even when he was begging for help.

Who is the older woman?
The older woman is the mother of the boy who was kidnapped, who is trying to get answers from eight year old Naomi, who hasn't told anyone what happened to the boy.

Who is the child actually talking to?
The child in the present day is talking to the ghost of the boy who was kidnapped, and the boy has come back to haunt Naomi to create a psychological effect. The boy is essentially back from the dead to haunt the adult Naomi for not telling anyone what happened to him in 1990, or telling anyone what actually happened to him.


Is the little girl your daughter?
The girl who is seen in the 1990s by the audience is Naomi as an eight year old girl. the girl in the present day is the daughter of Naomi, who is the same age as Naomi was when the boy went missing.


Who is the woman at the table?
The woman at the table is the mother of the boy who was kidnapped, who is trying to get answers from eight year old Naomi.

Why is there a forgiving needed?
There is no forgiving taking place in the opening sequence. The boy is kidnapped and says that he will 'never forgive you'.


Why are the other actors present?
Other actors are present to take place in the filming.


Why is the boy carried away in the beginning?
He has been kidnapped.


Are the people being taken the family of the woman and the girl?
The person who is taken is the son of the woman who is featured at the table. The girl is the best friend of the boy. In the scene with the mother and the girl, the mother is trying to get answers about her missing son.


Who is the main character?
The main character is Naomi, as she features as an eight year old girl, as well as the adult. She is also the main character because of what happened to her in her past, with the kidnapping creating an unstable mental future.


Who is the man who took the main character?
The man is a kidnapper who took the boy from the home.

The audience had questions because some parts of our opening didn't seem to present all ideas clearly. These questions will help us learn how to improve our opening sequence and make sure the viewers completely understand what is going on. Generally the audience shouldn't have had these questions, but them having these questions meant that we can now improve our opening. To ensure that the audience have no questions we can change certain things that are in our opening sequence.

Analysis of Costumes in Psycho Thriller's

I will be analysing the costumes in three psycho-thriller films, which include:
Silence of the Lambs
Black Swan
Shutter Island


Silence of the Lambs:

Screen shots of characters costumes

The film 'Silence of the Lambs' comes under the sub-genre of a psychological thriller. The audience knows this through the costumes, especially through Anthony Hopkins costume as 'Hannibal Lecter', through the mask and the other costumes that Anthony Hopkins wears. Also the contrast between Hopkins costumes and more professional characters show the sub-genre.

It is creative because the difference in costumes between the characters shows how much authority the character has to the audience, as well as having an element of representing things such as professions to the audience, in which without the costumes might not be exactly clear to the audience.

In our opening sequence, it wouldn't be necessary to have use costumes like this as our film doesn't demonstrate the same aspects of 'Silence of the Lambs'.

The sub-genre in 'Black Swan' is psycho thriller, similarly to 'Silence of the Lambs'. This helps the narrative as throughout the film the main character has to fight against her own psychological state. The costumes help display this through the contrast of white, being the 'innocent girl' she is frequently described as; the black representing the evil side of the swan and the overwhelming sense of power. It is creative as it uses the innocence of white and the power of black to represent the main characters psychological state of mind, which is especially portrayed in the last picture, with the black ground and the character the only white on the scene, through the use of costume. This could be used in our opening sequence as the innocence of white costumes could be used to represent a child like innocence.

In 'Shutter Island' there is a large contrast between the characters, showing the characters who are powerful, and less powerful. In the psycho thriller, the characters of authority are clean, where as the others are dirty, suggeseting llack of authority to the audience. We can use this in our opening sequence to leave the effect of power to the audience.

Costume analysis