Costumes and Props.

Our Thriller only really uses two props, the fist of which is a baseball bat. The baseball bat is used as a weapon to beat up the young girl hiding in the burnt out building. Baseball bats are common in films with violence and gangs etc. Whe chose this weapon because it looks distinctive in a shadow, which is the way we are going to film the attack, through the shadows on the wall. This will tell the viewer whats going on without having to directly show a young girl being beaten up, an idea we thought would be too difficult to shoot.

This prop features in the cover of "Inglorious Bastards" covered in blood with an army helmet hanging off it, this is because the film is about Nazi germany and world war two. This gives us the impression that the bat is used in the film the way we are using it in our film, as apposed to its actual use which is baseball. This baseball bat looks alot more gruesome than the one in the photo above, and fits in with our thriller theme really well. We will not be showing any particulally gruesome shots because they are harder to make realistic on a small budget and without trained actors.

The only other prop we are using is a ciagrette. The cigarette will be dropped next to our main character to alert her to other people being in the room. cigarettes are common in thriller films with seedy characters because these are the people more stereotyped to smoke. The cigarette will drop to the floor and will be stubbed out by a big black boot of one of the men. Cigarettes are a symbol of hardieness, grimey characters and death. They can also be used to express femeninity in the right context. Straight cigarettes are more common in films and we will be using a cigarette similar to the one in the photo below on the left.

For our costumes we have selected predictable clothing. Both of the men will be dressed in big black coats and big black boots, this fits in with our genre and the eerie feel to the setting. Our two men will be intimidating and dark, and through the film we do not see their faces, we only hear them and see their torso and feet. More attention to detail was paid to the female character, who had been out when witnessing an attack. She will be in a small coat, a dress and heels. This represents her vunrebility and her femeninity. This is important because we want to give an impression of innocence about her, something which the male characters appear to ignore. the Photos below are the costumes of the men in our Thriller.