2. Victim/Protagonist
We decided to have our protagonist
wear ‘normal’ or ‘everyday clothes’ to
make her more familiar to the
audience, as she could be one of
them. Making the protagonists fate in
the beginning, all the more worrying
and frightening.
We chose to keep the protagonist’s
costume relatively light – separating
her from the antagonist, and showing
her as a more positive character or
victim.
3. Antagonist
We decided our antagonist should wear darker coloured clothes, to fit in
with the horror genre and the atmosphere of mysteriousness and to
show to the audience that the character was a ‘bad guy’, as darker
clothes are a convention of villains.
We decided that by wearing a hood and concealing the face of
the character, further suspense and mysterious would be built
from the audience not knowing the identity of the antagonist (a
convention of horror).
We chose not to have our antagonist hold or show
any form of weapon, which may have been typical
of the horror genre. This was to create an air of
uncertainty, as the audience is left wondering,
what exactly the antagonist has done to the
protagonist.
