Costume Ideas

When looking at costume I have to consider the connotations and representations I will be trying to achieve with my choices in costume. I will try to try to connote the correct messages to my audience with my costume for each character. My main protagonist should wear a costume with light colours, showing her innocence and purity. It should also be quite feminine to connote the representation of women being the weaker gender, as much as this is a stereotype most women would like to break, I think it would be useful to portray the character as such. She must also attract the male gaze, so perhaps something fitted and slightly revealing. I had a look on some clothing websites to get an idea of the type of clothing i'd like my protagonist to wear and these are some of the ideas I came up with.

The pastel colours within the pretty day dresses show a binary opposition towards the gown the antagonist will wear. It also directly relates to the representation stereotypically used to display her angelic nature. Jono and I  were considering using a pastel blue colour for the dress as we feel it has a virtuous and harmless nature. It also represent the sky, and a sense of freedom which is soon to be taken away form her by the antagonist when she is trapped in the house.

Secondly, I must consider the costume for the antagonist. Her costume must be of dark clothing to connote her corruption, darkness and her haunting face must be rememberable in the audiences mind. This will mean they are still thinking about the antagonist as they leave and apply it to moments in their life as they are at home, and suddenly feel a chill. Her face must be in her mind, creating resonance, the kind of costume and make up idea we'd like to take on board include:

As you can see from these images, the use of a white gown is used. Usually white is used to connotes the incorruption of a person however the iconography associated with the white gown is used so often it will not be subverting the genre it will be following a typical antagonist costume design.  The use of the white but dirtied gown shows an innocence corrupted, as the antagonists haven't always been corrupt they were once normal. I think this makes them scarier as it shows a change in their mental and physical stability making the impossible seem more universally applicable.