Main task: Costume and props

For my costumes I thought long and hard about what my characters should wear in my film intro. At first, when I depicted the main characters as being scientists, I would simply have them wearing a white lab coat and black jeans to fit in with the horror and dark feel. However this become improvingly difficult to come buy in the limited deadline for my filming. I eventually decided to have the main characters be monster hunters, so told them to wear so standard out door clothing.

For Alex appropriately enough as he was the younger member of the two men, he wore some tracksuit bottoms and all football trainers, to show his youth and young age. It also implies that he is not taking the job very seriously. In comparison Harry's clothes are very much the opposite to Alex's. He wears a smart walking coat, formal button up shirt, casual genes, a hat and a pair of walking shoes. This shows us that he is very into the feel that he is wanting to find this strange being and see why it causing much mayhem and what it is. So in a way it also shows a representation age in the extract between the two characters simply buy what they are wearing to give the audience an impression of who is more formal and who is not really so motivated between the two characters.


Here is visual comparison of the two characters differing costumes.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alex's informal costume 

Harry's formal costume

For props I used a wide diversity of these throughout my intro. Firstly and most notable of all of them is Harry's backpack. For this it added professionalism into Harry's character and emphasises that he is a well prepared and intelligent person who is ready for the search for this creature. The other props I used were later thought up to add tense and speculations in the scene, in particular where we first see Harry in the scene. The main thing we can see is the work that Harry has in front of him, most of which were props that I had or created myself for the scene in mind.  Firstly was the giant red folder that he has with him when he's looking at the data readings for the creature. This was really my school folder which was large enough to look like a private document that contained private information of what the creature was and how it was potentially created.

 

My folder that I used in my film


The other two props that I used were much more visible on the screen to the viewer. These were the shots of the graph about TS Re gen  and the Necronomicon inscription page. These props were added in as a visual effect for the audience to show what the character is looking at and what it is telling him. These shots were inspired by my testers who explained that they needed to be added, in order to make the scene more engaging and tense. I put the graph in first to show that he is smart enough to know potentially how this creature came about and then the second one to show that he knows this thing is un natural and that its potentially dangerous and cause severe damage.

The props used for the introduction of Harry's character.


For Alex's character, no props were used. This again links back to the representation of the characters age. Because he is younger, he can't interpretative the data successfully and shows that he is not as intelligent and powerful as Harry's character. The props do this by significantly increasing this gap between them, but they also play a key role in keeping the viewers attention engaged and alert about what will happen in the rest of the intro.