When we began to film, we didn’t think that we would make any changes. However, as we got deeper into the process that thought completely changed. To start off, one of the things that we changed was the costume. I would love to say that we had no trouble when it came to the costuming but that would be entirely incorrect. Our actor, Isabella, went through about 4 costume changes until we found the right one.
At first we wanted our character to wear a white dress to represent innocence and the loss of it through the opening scene. However, that idea was discarded when our actor, who is also in charge of costuming, found out that she didn’t have any white dresses.
Because of this issue, we decided that any type of clothing would work fine as long as it was white because we were still caught up on the idea of innocence. So we ended up shooting all of our scenes with our actress wearing a white tank top, white shorts, and white shoes. However, after we were done shooting we decided that the outfit didn’t really match what we were aiming for so we decided that we would change the outfit.
After thinking of possible outfits, we decided to keep the white tank top, because we really wanted to hang onto the white piece of clothing for innocence, and instead of white shorts we changed them to black cargo pants. We thought that by doing this it would just be a simple outfit and would make the audience focus more on the story being told rather than the outfit. However, as we were filming, we noticed that the outfit was hard to work with. For instance, the pants made the actor slower in her running scenes and made the scene seems like it came from an action movie rather than a horror movie. Because of this we decided to change the costume once again. Sadly, this meant that we would have to discard all footage of our actor once again.
At last, we came up with the final outfit of a plain black dress and no shoes. It was simple and in a way, it still conveyed innocence since it was a dress.
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