Costume/Make up

Luke the 'Detective' in our opening of a thriller will be wearing a typical detective look, consisting of a formal suit with a long coat, just as we see many of famous detectives to be wearing, by doing this typical detective outfit, it clearly indicates a detective status as the audience are so used to seeing this kind of outfit on a ‘detective’ in a thriller film.  This costume choice is typical of a thriller genre as the long coat covers most of the body, giving a sense of mystery as it somewhat covers identity, the formal attire summarises his personality as it makes the person seem serious and dedicated to his job. The formal and neat look, will slightly indicate his role of a protagonist. We will also have Luke’s hair a bit rough, to portray a hardworking man, we want to seem the person as slightly stressed as we would of thought this type of job would be quite stressful.

Sam will play the innocent victim, who will be seen being attacked by the antagonist. For makeup choices, we will use fake blood to indicate his injuries; also we will be using different tones of eye shadow to create a bruise effect on Sam’s face. Makeup will be used to manipulate injuries to emphasise brutality and to give a sense of realism in the film. This is typical of a thriller as we always see some kind of violence so by showing injuries clearly, we want the audience viewing a thriller to feel involved and therefore feel unsafe as the narrative expresses its solemnity. This will show Sam as seriously hurt and possibly dead. Costume choices for Sam will be in casual wear, most likely a shirt and tracksuit bottoms, this type of clothing represents him as unknowing and unprepared as he lead to an abandoned house and killed. When the detective views him, his clothing will be rough, to show that he has been murdered and to also express that there has been a struggle of circumstances, as if Sam himself has put up a fight. His clothing will be bright colours to represent and connote the good within the character; to emphasise his innocence, in typical thrillers we would see use of colour to be picked out specifically to divide the good from the bad and so we have used this convention purposely.

Matthew will be playing the role of the antagonist. He will be wearing dark clothing to connote death and danger and to clearly represent his role of the antagonist, again typical of a thriller due to dark clothing is used a lot in thrillers to portray and maybe foreshadow certain incidents that may occur later on in the film, for an example, if we were to see the antagonist standing in the darkness with the innocent victim being unknowing, it may foreshadow an upcoming death. With his dark outfit, he will have some clothing that may represent his past and his job title, such as a bullet proof vest, this therefore may indicate his job role of being maybe in the forces; special forces, again it keeps the audience thinking on the reason of why he has killed this man; we can manipulate clothing to represent the background of the individual.