Costumes

Dresses

For the female character's costume, we wanted her to come across as high class with good taste and a sense of style, to contrast from her violent actions. This would be a binary opposite that would throw off the audience and make the reveal a lot more shocking. We looked at 3 different dresses that Emily, our actress, owned that she picked out.

Dress 1 [Left]: This was the dress we went with in the end as we really liked the slightly abstract style it had and the striped looked striking and interesting. The colours blended in with the setting but also stood out because of how bold they were and we thought it added a slight bit of obscurity to the film's style and aesthetic.

Dress 2 [Middle]: We liked how this dress was very floral and fit in quite nicely to the natural setting of the end scene. The green colour also suited Emily's hair and made her look fashionable. The reason why we decided against this one was because we thought the short skirt wouldn't be as flowy and fancy and it just wasn't as striking as we wanted it to be.

Dress 3 [Right]: This dress stood out from the other two because it looked a bit more modern and hippy-like. It represented a more conventional market for film and a new way of looking at things. We decided against it because we thought it didn't really fit the upper class themes of the film and we thought the colours didn't stand out the way we wanted them to. 

Jewelry

We decided from the start that we wanted the character to be wearing some sort of pearl necklace or something big, so it would show up on the shot of her putting it on in the mirror really easily. Pearls have often represented wealth and style so we wanted this to stand out in the film. We narrowed it down to two necklaces, both pearl. The one on the left was the one we picked in the end, as the pearls were bigger and more obvious, but we kept the charm out of the shot. The other necklace was strongly considered as we liked the colours between the pearls as it mirrored the ones on her dress and added a bit of character, but after doing some test shots to show this, we noticed that they just didn't stand out as well as the other necklace - so we decided against it in the end.

We also wanted her to wear red lipstick to emphasize the red imagery in the film and make her look more striking, as well as a snake ring which she is shown to be wearing in the shot of her turning the volume dial in the car.