Kym's Dress codes

The following was created by our head of props and costume Lucy as a visual reference to the character Kym's dress codes, with examples from actual thrillers of characters with a similar traits to Kym.

Kym’s dress codes

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 Knightly in Domino (2005)

Angelina Jolie in Tombrader (2001)

Jodie Foster in Flightplan (2005)

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 Aliens 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 blue tshirt which connotes depression, 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.