Clothing

 

For our clothing we have decided that we wanted to clothe the characters that would symbolise them, we do not have many characters in our play because for our 2 minute opening we did not want to overcomplicate however that does not mean we kept our opening simple, still using the convetions of a psychological thriller we decided to change parts in order to make our opening tense:

The Girl, SCENE 1- The girl in this scene will be washing her hands, we have not named the girl as we wanted her to be annoymous, the only clue is that she was bestfriends with a girl called Amy. We had wanted the girl not be dressed up but look like she is in the comforts of her own home. This scene is where the girl is having the daydream, our daydreamer will be played by Jessica. We did not want Jessica in her pyjamas as we will be shooting in the daytime, so we have decided to have her in an evening wear, just before the night but still links into the right time to be attacked. Instead of wearing her pyjamas, Jessica will be wearing her normal type of clothing or what a generic teenager will wear. We had decided she would wear a top with her favourite band on it. She will not be wearing any footwear and be barefoot because she's in the bathroom. However to show she is in the comfort of her own home her hair will be in a mess and she will have no make-up because she is cleaning her face. We will show the back bit of her body including her legs, she will be wearing legging/jeans, to represent the fact the she has been out and has come back in. However what we do not know is the time period between the daydream and the bathroom scene. We will keep this optional for the audience to decide on.
The clothing Jessica will wear will look like this:

Clothing that seems like she has come back from an outing.

The Girl, Daydream scene - In this scene we want to show that she is cold whilst being outside, which is the distraction and reasons she used for being paranoid, because she is not thinking straight due to the tempreture outside. Jessica will be wearing a coat, jeans and boots. She will also have a bag on her, a schoolbag but not a recognisable one. Just a simple satchel type of bag. We want to show the audience how vulnerable the teenage girl looks when walking back home. The coat will show that it is cold outside but will not have the hood up because we want the audience aware of the face. The jeans will be the same from the previous shot and the footwear will be boots because she is walking during the winter season, not heavy boots because there is no snow but black boots.
This is the clothing Jessica will be wearing for the filiming:

The Stalker- Our stalker will be played by Laura, during the shoot we had dressed her up in a black jacket with her hoodie up, this allows the target audience to wonder what gender the stalker will be, if it is a girl or boy. We decided to have a black hoodie because our scene will be in the wood amongst green leaves and bushes, trees and gates, the black hoodie will stand out as it is an unnatural colour in the woods, we could have chosen other colours but we did not want the clothing to be too bright as this could have made the target audience aware that the stalker would have been obviously seen by the girl if she was going to be wearing a bright red hoodie. We wanted the stalker to blend in but not to much, such as a camouflage. Also the colour black represents darkness which we thought was a good idea, if the stalker was to wear pink it would not fit the conventions of a psychological thriller unless there was a meaning behind the pink that the director had wanted to show. When filming Laura we wanted to only show the back of her body but just the top body build, we did not shoot the legs as that would have been a long distanst shot and we wanted the girl walking pass to be focus as well, I think this was for the better as we can see the movement of the stalker swiftly instead of a getting a large shot of the scene the target audience can just the stalker and the girl during the daydream. The hoodie will look like this:

A simple black hoodie, no patterns or logo. Only the back of the hoodie will be shown on the stalker.