CASTING AND COSTUME PLANNING

 When it came to choosing who was suitable to play the part of our main character in the opening sequence we decided that our friend, Chayce was perfect for it. 
 As part of our costume and make up planning we decided to use a traditional hospital gown which we got from one of our parents work. It was perfect as it was exactly how we imagined our costume to be for the main character. 
It is stereotypical to the conventional "dead girl" which is seen in many psychological horror films, such as "the Ring", "Grudge"and the recent TV series "Stranger Things". 



 The hair and make up was also inspired by traditional horror films and the 'ill' and 'haunted' appearance. 
We used a hairbrush to back-comb Chayce's hair to make it appear disheveled and messy, this gave off a 'wild' and 'spooky' vibe which was exactly what we wanted our character to have. It also reflects how in the 1960's, there was an extreme lack of care in Mental institutions for the patients, so the fact she looks dirty and messy shows how there was neglect from the staff at the hospital, which would be seen in our film.  

For the make up we stuck with the previous decision to keep it stereotypical to that idea of the "dead girl" character which features in most horror films by using white face paint to create a pale, ill appearance, and used black and red eye-shadow to create 'bags' under the character's eyes which gives off a vibe of being haunted and also looks quite haunting. 

 Our aim when taking these images was to see how scary the character would actually look when filming and get an idea of how we could adapt this character into making her fit the opening sequence perfectly. 
We plan to show these images to our focus group which we are in the process of organizing: we will get a group of our target audience and ask them too discuss our costume and make up planning, as well as film name and character name.