Costume Designs -Cloven

My individual costume designs:I have drawn drafts of the characters

costume designs, so that it is easier to

show my initial ideas on paper. These

designs may not be the finalised

costume designs for our film trailer

Cloven, however they do accurately

reflect how me and my group believe

our characters should be perceived.

These are my initial costume designs created for each character. The designs are labelled according to the characters name. Over all I felt that the costumes of the characters should be kept gloomy and dull to reflect the genre of the film trailer. Horror films stereotypically keep bright colours to a minimum to represent their film plot which is very dark and sinister. I tried to reflect each characters personality and style through their costume design, for example Marcus is supposed to be the tough alpha male of the group so initially we thought that he should wear shorts and a t-shirt to represent his masculinity as he doesn't care about catching the cold. Also we believed that this style of clothing would represent his stereotype of being a "jock."

Even though stereotypically horror films contain dark, dull and gloomy costumes, I decided to design Hayley's costume a little bit brighter. I did this so that the audience could easily recognise the fact that the only two females within the group are in total contrast to one another. Hayley is outgoing, kind and girly whereas Sam is shy, unsociable and tom boyish. The fact that Sam is wearing dark clothing shows that she's not as confident as Hayley. The dark clothing of Sam also creates a code of enigma, the audience want to find out why she is so different to most normal girls and is she the vulnerable target of the demonic entity due to her inverted personality.

I have decided to design Vinnies Costume so that he is dressed very casual and not within the camping theme. I have done this so that it reflects the fact that he is the outsider of the group. It shows that Vinnie doesn’t turn up fully equipped for camping and seems to be not included within the groups plans. He is wearing denim jeans and a leather jacket which isn’t very sensible clothing for camping which shows that he is uninvolved and just tags along with everybody’s plans.

Ben’s costume design is very much like Marcus’s reflecting a typical teenage boy showing their masculinity. However Ben’s costume reflects that he is much more sensible than Marcus as he is wearing a coat. This costume design also reflects his personality seen as he is sporty and smart.

Over all I have tried to keep each costume design within the camping theme, however I decided to dress each character a tad more casual than the normal camping attire seen as they are a group of teenagers which are a lot more laid back than your average camper.