Planning - Costumes and Props

Costumes and props were key to making our trailer as realistic as possible: from looking at existing trailers we had an idea of how important these aspects are and how real that should look and appear to be.

Costumes and Make-Up

- A large black coat and hat (private investigator)

- A plain white gown (the hospital clothing)

- A formal black dress (for a section of our magazine cover)

- Hair gel

- Dark eye make up 

Props

- A doll (to use for the baby that dies of cot death)

- A bed (the hospital bed, and a normal bedroom)

- A cot

- A Lamp (to adjust the lighting)

This is one of our actors that we got to play the part of the private investigator. We dressed Sarah in black to convey this role and make her look manly. We also used a car in order to make it realistic to show that this character is just arriving at the house. 

This is the plain white gown we used that is the usual dress wear when in hospital. We made the gown look very creased and old to give the impression that she's undergone the stressful event of having a baby. 

Here is where we dressed our actor Sophie in formal wear. A black dress and curled her hair making her look very formal as if she has just been to the premier of the film. This is for our magazine cover as we want it to feature this formal picture, as a feature of interviewing this "new upcoming actress" but also have a picture of her in character. Similar to the Black Swan Magazine cover we de constructed. 
We also used this lamp as a spot light to emphasise and really show our actress.










Here is when we did the make up for our character 'Helena' we used dark make up to convey the stress that this character has gone through in terms of the loss of her husband and having a baby. Also reflecting that she may not be 100% stable and how tired she is. We used hair gel to make her her look wet and sweaty which is the case when someone has just had a baby which hopefully we have conveyed as being realistic.










This is the prop we used as the baby, obviously a real baby could not be used like in real films, but we felt that this baby did look slightly realistic and therefore used this doll the best that we could. 

 
 For the hospital scene, we wanted to make the entire area white to illustrate the setting. The presents a real representations of stereotypical hospitals. 

 Here is the lamp the we used, and for some areas of filming we need to dim the lights instead of having them fully bright. Therefore we used material to cover the lamp: this still reflected light through but dimmed it enough to give the effect we wanted.
 









This is the cot that we created in order to shoot the scene where the baby supposedly dies of cot death.