Costumes and Props

PROPS

Probably the most important prop we will be needing in order to create our opening sequence is the chest or box we will be using for Pandora's physical box. We have looked online as well as in shops and found this one on Amazon. The measurements meet our requirements and the box is a unique and interesting design as well as looking fairly old, as the box was created by Zeus it would be very old. We may add extra distressing to the box once we have purchased it depending on what we think will look best within the trailer.

- We will need some kind of weaponry within the trailer which both the good and bad characters will be using. As our film is set in a mystery land which appears to be in the past, our actors will mostly be using weapons such as daggers which we can again buy on Amazon or in toy stores. The only issue we may have is we have to handle them responsibly as carrying around one in public, even if it is just a toy, can be seen as threatening and get you in trouble.

COSTUMES

PANDORA (older)

- The character of Pandora will have three costumes which she wears. The first will be her when she is in the wood and finds the box, so before she has to run away and protect the box. This will consist of some kind of rope-like dress. This is before she has to go through the hardship of survival in the woods, she’s is content and comfortable with her lifestyle and so her dress will reveal this. We will preferably use light colours for this costume to show that she is innocent and young which is what light colours connote. Her makeup will also be reflecting this, using natural and bright make-up which will make her appear younger and happier.

- The next costume she will be wearing is the one she will be wearing when she is at home and her house is raided by people hunting for the box, she will be wearing some kind of night wear, possibly a long white under dress type item. The white again connotes her innocence. When she stabs and accidentally kills one of the raiders she will get blood on her dress, the red will stand vividly against the white which will show that she is no longer innocent and is not contaminated as she is a murderer. 

- The last costume will be the one we see her in most which will be her "hunter-like" costume which she wears when surviving in the woods. Using the internet I have managed to decide what this will look like. We will mostly be using darker colours to represent that she is no longer innocent and young and has had to grow up into something which is threatening in order to protect the box. Throughout the trailer the outfit will get holes in and become distressed.This will show that she has been out in the woods for a long time and represent her fight for survival. Along with the costume her make-up will appear darker and therefore represent the dark-Gothic appearance of her character.

PANDORA (baby)

- Baby Pandora will only be in a little bit of the trailer but her costume is still important, she will be wrapped in white blankets in the woods when she is shown. The white represents that she is a good and pure child.