Costume + Hair and Makeup

COSTUME + HAIR AND MAKE-UP

HAIR AND MAKE-UP

Whilst filming, I took photos of the costumes, hair and make-up which I put together earlier on in the day. To begin with I will look at the hair and make-up followed by the costumes.

In this first look, I gave Hannah a very sweet and innocent feel, the pink eye shadow denotes femininity. Additionally, the lack of makeup suggests and denotes youth- she has a long life to live, she is happy and has no worries. Her hair also backs up the idea of innocence with her soft and bouncy curls in the bottom of her hair; this is quite alike to how a conventional little white girl would have her hair.

In this look I used a smokey eye and a deep wine red lipstick. The smokey eyes connote that she is a dark character 'the eyes are the window to the soul' and hers are covered in blacks and greys this suggests that her soul may be dark and malevolent. The wine red lips definitely give off sexual connotations, it signifies availability but also, her maturity is emphasised.  Reds and blacks are both colours that can be associated with horror and blood and death, this follows our genre of horror/thriller. The hair is slicked back away from her face, this could denote confidence, on the other hand, it may denote vulnerability.

COSTUME

We chose to place Hannah in this outfit to make her appear as child-like as possible, The white tennis skirt resembles a school girl skirt which exaggerates how young she is. Also, converse pumps are seen as very juvenile. The reasoning behind her whole outfit being white is the colour white connotes purity, innocence and clenliness - Hannah resembles all of these at the beginning of the opening sequence where she is seen as happy.

In this second outfit Hannah is dressed very differently, she is in very dark colours of black and navy blue - which connote her unstable emotions and dark soul; black in general connotes death, hate and nothing (she feels as if she is nothing). The jeans which she was wearing are more masculine as opposed to her previous outfit which was extremely girly. Her outfit shows her to have a different persona and signifies how something has happened to her to make her be like this. The high heels represent and denote maturity whilst the fur coat connotes that she may be a cold-hearted person.