Costumes // Pre-Production



After deciding on actresses we then thought about the costumes for our characters.



Indya wearing a black dress

Suzanne Moors, being an estate agent and therefore a normal business woman would have to wear something that shows professionalism and is smart enough so Indya looks like an adult. A dress is something professional women typically wear and the fact that it is black makes it very simple and means it won't distract the audience away from what is happening in the opening. This costume doesn't really attach a positive or negative value to the character Suzanne. Instead it just portrays her as a normal woman doing her job. This could allow some of the young female adults in the target audience to connect with her.

Indya's black high heels

We have also decided to have Suzanne wearing black high heels. At first we were unsure if we should use high heels but we soon realised that if Suzanne was wearing flat shoes she may look less like an adult and it's typically expected of a professional woman to wear high heels.


Wilhelmina wearing a white dress

We wanted the antagonist's costume to have a large contrast to Suzanne's. Black and white are both very contrasting colours. Typically an antagonist would be wearing black as this is a colour associated with darkness and sin. We acknowledge that this is a typical thing to do but believe in this case it is appropriate to subvert this view and have our antagonist wearing white. The fact that she is wearing white could also make the audience think that she was once good or is in fact still good but is being controlled by something which makes her seem supernatural.

As you can see in the picture the dress is white and flows down. This gives the impression that it is a dress a child is more likely to wear, reinforcing the idea that our antagonist is meant to be a child. In the opening Wilhelmina will have bear feet and no jewellery. This will make her seem even younger and childish because children typically don't care about wearing shoes or jewellery to make their outfit nicer.