Costumes And Props!

Costumes: So the costumes we're gonna be using for our opening sequence aren't going to be overly complicated but our main character of 'Girl' (she doesn't have a name yet so yeah) will most likely be wearing hoodies, jeans, that sort of thing. We thought that this would be useful and effective for the audience as it would a) help them identify the character and b) it would tell the audience what age she is and that would obviously play a huge role in the development in the story if we were to make the entire movie.

Our other main costume is a police hat/ police outfit as our dialogue consists of a police officer knocking at the door of our protagonist and saying that there has been a noise complaint from the neighbours to which the girl says that it was just the TV. The idea that the police is there is linked in with the usual conventions that you would find in a horror movie because the police or other law enforcement usually have very positive connotations, leading the audience to believe that everything will be okay and that our lovable characters will not have anything to worry about. However, the fact that the police is coming at the beginning of the movie helps to build up the tension for the audience, getting them hooked onto the story as they would want to know what is going to happen, or what has happened.

Props: Like our costumes, our props are pretty minimalistic, we have fake blood with which we have chosen to write our main titles on a wall of 'Daddy's Girl'. The use of blood is something very common in horror movies and in fact any genre of movies, even if they may not be focused on blood and gore. We will also have another purpose for using fake blood as our opening starts with the girl in the bathroom as she is washing blood off her hands, this again makes the audience wonder what is going on but it would follow the conventions of horror movies because a lot of movies start off being dis-jointed and they explain what is happening as the movie goes on so that the audience know as much as the characters know or sometimes more.

Our other main prop is a family photograph which the girl will later rip up. This is something which will help tell the audience the main theme of the movie but at the same time not giving enough away so that then the story will become predicable.