Actors and Costume selection

• Actor: Erin Vaites
• Character: Erin will play the role of a young mysterious child who is skipping through the woods, she will not have any dialogue, and no facial expressions will be needed except for a gloomy, creepy look at the end of the clip
• Make-up and Costume - The young girl will not show her face up until the final shot of the scene were she will have make-up on that makes her look lifeless (EG very pale/purple face, possible cuts and she will also have mud on her face). The characters costume choice is shown below!

Box on the left - 

• In the box on the left, the actor is shown wearing a red coat with a red hooded top underneath, this is because we could not find a suitable hooded coat which fitted all of our other criteria. we chose to have the character hooded so that it conceals the identity of the character, creating a feeling of the unknown 
• Also a hooded character will project the idea that the film is set in the winter, when it is cold, and cold is synonymous with a strange creepy atmosphere. 
• We chose the colour red as a focal point in terms of colours partially because red is most commonly associated with danger (This was confirmed by the majority of people in our questionnaire), but also because it contrasts against a woodland background, so the character is distinguishable during the opening scenes
• The general idea is that the girl is in a school uniform, which is why she will be wearing black tights and shoes, as well as a grey or black skirt, this will create a sense of innocence for the audience, which builds up tension

Middle box

• In this box the character is shown again from many different angles with only a red coat on so that we could decide which outfit would be most appropriate
• In this instance, it would be harder to conceal the identity of the character with the different types of camera angles up until the end on the scene when the girls face is finally revealed, but this type of outfit does provide the ability to show the girls hair more, as it moves around whilst she is skipping, really giving a sense of vulnerability and naivety
• We chose the colour red as a focal point in terms of colours partially because red is most commonly associated with danger (This was confirmed by the majority of people in our questionnaire), but also because it contrasts against a woodland background, so the character is distinguishable during the opening scenes
• The general idea is that the girl is in a school uniform, which is why she will be wearing black tights and shoes, as well as a grey or black skirt, this will create a sense of innocence for the audience, which builds up tension

Box in the right

• The final box simply shows the character in a normal school uniform, this is simply for planning, so we get to know what the character looks like in normal clothing

As a group we decided against using props in our film as we thought that they would not help to create tension when mixed in with location, music, costume and make-up.