the costume for our male character was fairly basic, as it was designed to look casual, careless and rough. Tracksuit bottoms in particular were a feature we wanted to incorporate because involving aspects of mise en scene- tracksuit bottoms connote laziness, carelessness and sometimes even youth- involving themes of age because this characters actions are immature and drink driving as he is is often associated with youth and immaturity. The top he is wearing we subtly covered with paint, however it is not majorly obvious as we wanted to maintain realism in our character representations. The polo also has a company name- suggesting he is a working man, which may be partly a reason for his stressed, messed up state and why he has turned to drink. The hat our male actor flaunts is a discreet disguise of true identity, almost like a subtle mask because we do not get a proper look at our character, as if he is guilty of something- or even foreshadowing the guilt he feels for his car colliding with the young girl. The car we choose to use for our film opening is simplistic and slightly old fashioned, the inside of it we purposely cluttered with cigarette packets, cans and drink bottles to create a link to class of this male once again relative to mise on scene because our character profiling through mise en scene suggests he is a low class, poor and poor status male. We wanted most of our shots of this male to be shadowed or not to revealing to create almost an enigma to see who and how he really is, this is partly supported by the hat he wears. Many horror movies also adopt these similar ideas of keeping certain identities disclosed.
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