Costume: Bill (Antagonist)

Bill's Costume:

Naturally, we decided that Bill's costume needed to capture his personality, it needed to blend with his occupation and evoke intimidation, whilst also conveying generic conventions. Therefore we built up the costume around these different ideas, whilst gaining influences from different sources of media (mainly TV Dramas).







Headwear:

We decided that Bill should wear a hat, but one that would be relevant to the story i.e we thought that a trilby hat wouldn't be suitable to the type of thriller we are trying to portray. After researching we decided that Bill should wear a beanie, this idea came from the first episode of the first series of "The Killing" whereby, the farther of the murdered victim (Theis Birk Larson) wears a black beanie. The reason for this choice is that, particularly at the beginning of the episode Theis is shown as an authority figure and is also speculated to be the killer.  Additionally, during times of speculation Theis seems very intimidating and his costume helps significantly amplify this. Furthermore, the hat conveys that of an authority figure, much like how in America sheriff's wear large hats to portray their stature. We believed that the beanie would be the best way to apply this idea to a more British character and setting.

Jacket: 

Secondly, we thought it would be ideal for Bill to be wearing a rather large jacket. This is as big coats usually symbolize how the wearer is trying to hide/conceal something i.e a weapon, whilst also signifying the thriller genre. Again, we took inspiration for this idea from Theis in "The Killing". However, early on when we begun to research this type of clothing we gained influence for a collared jacket from TV Drama "Misfits", Series 2, Episode 5. This is as, in the particular episode, an un-named man goes about murdering boys who have an interest in his daughter. The character is quite terrifying and in one scene he goes to kill someone, whilst wearing a collared jacket, which looks rather menacing and therefore inspiration was taken from this. On another note, the text on the jacket reading "Empower Services" matches the writing on the white van and business card we are using, which further highlights Bill's job positon and therefore strengthens his characters personality.

Murdering father, "Misfits"

Shoes:

In order to again reflect the character's personality via his job and nature we chose to create Bill with steel-capped work boots. The reason we chose this type of footwear is because the boots represent that Bill isn't someone who cares about his appearance, but instead cares more about his job or in this case, his objective. Additionally, the hardened boots symbolize his tough character and chunky out look. We could go further to say that what the boots represent coinside ironically with the naming of the character, whereby, Bill in our thriller opening isn't focused on his appearance, whereas for example the character of Bill in "Kill Bill. Vol 1 & 2" is the opposite of this, and his boots reflect this idea as well.