Costume specific to our trailer

Female protagonist/final girl costume

A female protagonists costume usually consists of flattering clothing which shows the curves of her body. I looked at potential clothing for our female protagonist, from films such as 'The Strangers', 'The house of Wax' and 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'. 

From looking at these female characters, I have decided to dress Maddie in tight and revealing clothing like Julie James in 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' and Carly Jones in 'The House of Wax', throughout the trailer to conform to female representations and to appeal to both genders as women will aspire to be like her and men will want to see what more is to come. However, as our trailer will be set over about 5 days, she will have changes of outfits. 

Lighter colours are sometimes used for the protagonist to represent hope and the good in the character, therefore I will use a light coloured top such as light grey to represent Maddie as innocent.

Here are some of the outfits I have in mind for Maddie:

These outfits represent Maddie as innocent, however she also comes across as very feminine and 'sexy' as her clothes are quite tight which conforms to female representations. I was inspired mainly by Julie James from What I did Last Summer as Maddie looks casual but nice like Julie, which enables our audience to relate to her.

Elliot

To show the audience that Elliot is a normal 20 year old, I have dressed him in casual clothing throughout the trailer. One of his outfits consists of a blue top with jeans to show his innocence and that he means no trouble at the beginning to make the audience feel at ease. However, when Elliot is seen cheating on Maddie, he will be wearing a grey jumper to look smart casual. This dark colour will also foreshadow threats to Maddie's and his own life. I have also dressed Elliot in a suit for when he comes home from work in parts of the trailer to make him look mature and professional as most of the boyfriends/husbands in horror films wear suits as they have professional jobs. This will make our trailer look realistic and enable our male audience to relate to him.

Antagonists

Costumes in horror films are usually dark and quite sinister. However white is often used for an antagonist to show the binary opposition of good vs evil between their personalities and costume.

This is the mask I have decided to use for the characters
 involved in the cult. It will hide their identities and make
 them look more horrific. 

However, a lot of costumes become iconic to the film genre, for example the scream mask makes the film recognisable just by looking at a character's costume. This is something my group and I want to achieve, therefore, I have decided to dress our cult in casual outfits with a white mask to clearly show the audience they are dangerous and are the antagonists.

Delaney's costume

As we are challenging stereotypes by having a female antagonist, I have decided to dress Delaney in a tight and flattering dress at the beginning and when she is sending threats to Maddie to mislead the audience into thinking she is a sex appeal when she is really a psycho. This costume inspiration is taken from the character May in 'May'when I was looking at challenging stereotypes as she tricks the audience into thinking she is innocent and we want to do the same at the beginning of our trailer.

These 2 costumes are what Delaney will wear throughout the rest of the trailer. I have decided to dress her in a white top which we won't mind getting dirty or damaged as this is conventional to a psychological horror trailer and it is seen in a few horrors, such as 'The Purge'. The dramatic change of her personality from a sex appeal to a psycho will be clearly shown through her costume and therefore won't confuse the audience. The other top is a flattering as it is low cut which will appeal to the male audience. It will be covered in blood and mud throughout
the trailer however it is still flattering at the same time to show her
sex appeal which ensures the audience doesn't forget what she meant
to Elliot.