Resit: Costumes

Bill Hasley Junior

For the part of Bill Hasley Junior we have decided to go with simple clothing to not overcomplicate matters and keep quite modern for verisimilitude within the audience and modern day clothing. We have decided to go with items similar to the ones below: 

The white in this striped tshirt connotates the innocence within Bill Hasley as a younger child, just before he turns and becomes the man that made him the killer. This clothing has versitimilitude of the modern day clothing lines.

Having plain trousers that are similar to today's clothing and not wanting them to stand out too much to the audience and bring attention away from the shirt and the connotations, the black can also connotate and foreshadow the death of upcoming victims.

These types of boots which looks worn, can give off the time period in which it was filmed, obviously Bill Hasley is shown as a younger child around the age of 17, therefore it would be more appropriate to have the younger version of Bill Hasley to wear old boots than to wear new white trainers, as it would not appeal to the audience.

Bill Hasley Adult

For the part of Bill Hasley in our opening, we have decided to use dark clothing as we do not see the killer's face and don't want to give away too much so the audience will appeal more to the film and it's storyline which is later revealed. Clothing isn't seen as much in the opening as we don't see the killer's face, all we see is an extreme close up of the killer's eyes and the silhouette of the killer, this would be portrayed better if the killer would be wearing dark clothing. 

We would have the killer wearing a plain, dark black hooded jumper underneath a coat so that he can fit the mask in between the hood, as well as plain dark trousers, we don't want to give away too much of this character as thinking about the film as a whole, we would want that to come out more as the film progresses. Keeping the costume for the opening simple and not overcomplicated will set the mood, as well as black being a generic costume wear for horrors.

 As well as the Killer wearing a dark hooded jumper, we want the character to wear a jacket, to match with the weather conditions, which could give off a type of pathetic fallacy, with the character just killing a victim, setting the mood and tones for the upcoming scene after the opening. 


Jess Wilding