Planning: Costumes

Happy Memories/ Flashbacks 

In these scenes both characters will be wearing ordinary, comfortable clothes, so that a sense of realism can be enforced in these memories. We will also try to include clothes that have pops of colour, such as the pink coat shown in the mood board, so that connotations of life and joy are brought into the scenes. By doing this we hope to create an understanding between our characters and target audience. This will also make them seem innocent and will therefore lull the audience into a false sense of security as they feel that the traumatic events that are to follow, could not possibly happen to these two day-to-day girls. This also contradicts the ways in which characters are typically represented in the thriller genre, as these girls do not appear to be victims or villains at this point in the story, thus confusing the audience further and re-enforcing the psychological elements of the story. 

Dark/ Disturbing Flashbacks

For the more melancholy scenes, the costumes of Character 1 will change slightly. The idea of comfortable everyday clothing will remain, however will we exchange brighter colours for black and grey tones. This will visually emphasise her weak mental state, as she will begin to take less pride in her appearance as she begins to lose who she really is in her state of confusion. Also black and grey connote death, grief and depression, which again will re-instate the change in personality of our protagonist. 
Character 2, however, will remain in the same style clothing as in the previous scenes. This is because her existence is not supposed to be clearly understood by the audience. She remains a constant figure in all of the scenes and shows little sign of character development as she is no more than a figment of Character 1's imagination or a shadow of a girl that once lived. 







Bench scenes

This will be the continuous shot panning around the girls anti-clockwise whilst they are sat on the bench. In this shot both characters will be facing away from the camera and their figures will resemble silhouettes, Therefore they will both be wearing very dark or black clothing. As this shot will be reappearing in between each flashback and will be the only scene that is occurring in the present, it will create a sense of enigma from the very beginning of the film. The black will help bring forward ideas of death, fear and grief, which will later be represented with the mental breakdown of Character 1.  However in the early stages of the film this will juxtapose the happy memories and will put doubt into the mind of the viewer.