Props

We think that both props and actors play an important role in character establishment. We had near to no trouble of finding props, because of the specifics of our sequence.


When our actress is walking through the corridors and then entering the bathroom we can see her wearing a red cardigan.




This colour is very strong, we have chosen it because:



1) It draws attention to the person wearing it, makes her more important and prominent in the movie, concentrates attention on her.


2) It is a colour of passion, blood, danger, which is what our sequence is about.


When she enters the bathroom she takes it off, and we have a shot when it falls down to the floor. We can then see her wearing a white tank top.













White colour means innocence, cleanliness and purity. This will suggest her innocence to the audience, and it will think that it might be a sex scene, not a killing. Also we thought it will be a nice contrast between her guiltlessness and bloody murder when blood will be splattered all over the white tank top in the end.


We also needed a knife. We decided to go for a kitchen knife. It looks big and violent and is a good contrast to the skinny girl. Also it would look strange if she had a professional gun and a kitchen knife is considered a symbol of killers in horror movies (Halloween for example.)

The final prop we needed was fake blood. We asked our theatre department to provide us with some. We used added it gradually with every shot of her stabbing him, so in the end the whole shower was covered with blood for a final wide shot. Also there while we were doing his POV shot, somebody was in the shower splattering blood on Chloe's tank top.

All these props were essential in generating realism, and also sending sub concious message (such as colour meaning) to the audience.