Character Costumes

January 29th 2018

The costumes for the two main characters, Bobby and Poppy, are both quite casual outfits. I did a bit of research into typical outfits for serial killers and had no real luck because they all dress quite normally/casually. I did find that Ted Bundy typically wore turtlenecks, but that was really all I could find. We're going to make the outfits quite smart-casual so that the outfits are suitable enough for a first date.

 Ted Bundy

Taking inspiration from Ted Bundy's outfits, I think a smart-casual outfit like the one I will show below would be suitable for Bobby's character:

The outfit consists of a black turtle neck jumper and a dark coloured blazer, however the blazer doesn't have to be black, we could use a dark maroon or even navy. I would swap the suit trousers out for a pair of dark coloured jeans to make the outfit a bit more casual and fitting for a first date.

In terms of colour, I would plan for the turtle neck to be red so that we can use the meaning and representations of colour in the film to evoke certain feelings within the audience.

Red typically represents danger and violence, so this colour being shown on our killer almost foreshadows the danger surrounding his character and what is to come further on in the film. I feel like this gives us a great opportunity to represent the danger in the personality of the killer, and evoke feelings of hazard in the audience.




Poppy's costume has a lot less inspiration as there aren't as many widely known serial killers who are female, and the ones who are more known have very generic outfits or don't have any records on what they wore at all. Because of this, we've had to take a stab at making her outfit up and still making it look smart-casual but still a little bit strange/eerie at the same time.

We were thinking about possibly giving Poppy some glasses that are very 1970's style because they add a bit of a strange vibe to her as she wears accessories from different generations than the one she is currently in, which makes her a bit different. We also took this inspiration from Rosemary West who was convicted of killing 10 young girls with her husband, Fred West, in 1995.

Rosemary West