The main character in our film is
going to be Kym, she will play the role of the hero; this contradicts the
common convention of thrillers having a male role for the hero however there
are many thrillers with women heroes that worked very well. Such as:
Keira Knightley in Domino (2005) Jodie
Foster in Flight plan (2005) Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider (2001)
Baring these in mind we will create a
character who is very strong and who is forced to be independent. A common
convention of the dress codes in the above films and other women in thrillers
is black and dark colours rather than light girly colours. As our film is set
in modern day and the characters are quite young, aged 17, we also want their
dress code to be quite casual. They all also seem to have short hair or their
hair tied back making them look strong and slightly masculine. None look very
avertedly sexual as they have high necked tops that don’t flatter their
figures. We are not aiming for a fém fatal character type in which the
character may wear much more flattering clothes.
It was in the mid ’80s, when Sigourney
Weaver took on the acid-blooded alien in James Cameron’s Alien
that women stopped being the objects of desire, the manipulative seductresses
or the helpless victims, and began to take leading roles in action pictures,
working just as well as the greatest male action heroes
To conclude, our female character Kym will
wear dark black jeans to suggest casualness and a typical
modern teenager. In
the scenes when she is outside she may wear a black or dark jacket, maybe
leather to suggest a tougher type of woman that we see in thrillers. She will wear a pink jumper underneath to suggest love
and happiness and in her second scene where she is alone in her bedroom after
her boyfriend has commit suicide she will wear a grey tshirt which suggests she
is tough, the black jeans being the same as last time will show that she does
not bother too much about fashion and has her mind on other things.
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