Characters - Costume

Costume is an integral part of any film as it provides a reflection of a character's personality or intentions; therefore we had to carefully consider the costume of the characters in order to portray to the characters, as we as filmmakers perceive them, with clarity to the audience.

Character Profiles & Screen Testing

Creating character profiles enable us, as film makers, to ensure fictional characters are as realistic as possible to form the correct impression upon the audience and for continuity within the action. 

Topic Research: Prostitution

In order to gain an understanding of our female character, 'The Temptress' - who is a prostitute that kills her male clients- and to create greater depth to our character profile we had research into the typical representation of female prostitutes within films. Slasher films tend to explore human nature and how we react to murder, violence and sex with the antagonist- the Temptress within our opening- challenging and pushing the boundaries of human behaviour. Therefore this research will help also so that we can successfully explore the subversion of the genre of slasher to have a promiscuous female killer.

Code and Conventions of the Slasher Genre: The Final Girl

The Final Girl is a key concept within the slasher genre- the term refers to the last girl surviving in a group, where the antagonist is killing their victims one by one, and overcomes the killer or escapes. Typically, the final girl is sexually inactive or virginal and does not drink or smoke and sometimes has a unisex name. Final girls are presented through the male antagonist's point of view in a voyeuristic style and through this it makes the audience relate and root for the final girl.