AS Media Studies Production: Change in Costume

Change in Costume
At first we wanted for our killers and the victim to quite stereotypical. They were going to look like what you would expect the murderer to look like and what the victim would look like. Before the first day of filming we decided to change the way our film would look and was percieved. We decided to make the film look more modern and try and defeat the stereotypes. We decided that the victim didnt need to look like someone that would get bullied. We wanted them to look more like a normal teenager. We also wanted this for our murderers aswell. We wanted this because we wanted to get the message across that anyone could become the victim or be the murderer. And this was the message we wanted to get to our target audience, teenagers.

For our victim we went with a more modern look. We decided to make the victim wear jeans because it made him seem more normal and quite modern. We still have him wearing the red gloves as a representation of blood and danger. He has got the brown coat on that blends in with the background a bit. he has got a green and yellow hat on. We also got him to wear red shoes so that the colour red was a common colouyr in this opening few clips. Tghis will then hopefully show the veiwer that there has been something bad going on and the boy has been serverly injured or killed.

For the two other boys that are the murderers we also decided to go with a more modern fashion. With these two boys we decided not to really have any signs or items of clothing that woudl show any rference to danger or pain. We made sure that boy boys had hoods on so that they would be able to hide their faces from passers by or poeople they may see on the way. They both have jeans on to make it more modern again.