Characters

V I C T I M S

Ok guys, I tried to make a moodboard of victims in horror films to look at dress codes and stuff - bearing in mind I've not seen most of these! Yeah, it might be a bit small, sorry about that. As you can see there's always a lot of gore, and disturbing imagery - and often the characters are portrayed as being more vulnerable at the time, e.g. not wearing many clothes.... They're all familiar settings, but with horrific situations for the characters, which makes it all the more scary because the audience can relate to it, and it makes it seem more likely to happen to them. You'll notice a lot of the victims are female - I thought that would be good seeing as our killer's victims are girls, and they always tend to have a lot of females to kill off in horrors anyways. There are a couple of zombies in there - victim or villain, take your pic, but I'd go with victim... normal people turned into killing dead things. So yeah, hope this is helpful. :)

V I L L A I N S

... and this is a moodboard of villains from horrors (Dark Knight isn't really a horror but the Joker is the most amaaazing villain and it would just be wrong not to put him here). A lot of them have masks - and we know all about masks and disguise etc. etc. from Lord of the Flies and Jack and his painted face... But yeah, for whatever reason they have the masks as characters, for the audience it can be a whole lot scarier, and really really iconic. On the other hand, Norman Bates just uses his face (well, Anthony Perkins who played him in Hitchcock's Psycho), and it's so incredibly creepy, but just brilliant. The costume/dress codes of the villain is really really important, and because ours is really more thrillerish atm, it's a bit different, but we can still do other things to make our killer memorable and scary. Look at the ghost girl thing from The Grudge, and again, Norman Bates. But yeah, hopefully this will be inspirational =]

- love Mia xx