Characters

In my short film I have chosen to use only two characters, making my film simple and also follow some horror movie conventions. 

The Protagonist will be very stereotypical of a horror film, being a young, helpless and innocent attractive female whereas the Antagonist will be male, much bigger and stronger, his face will be covered in shadow and will not be revealed and will have dark hair making much more enigmatic, possibly wearing a mask.



This image shows my actor who will be playing the antagonist in my short film. He is an A-level drama student, therefore he should be very good at playing his role due to experience in acting. When he was younger he even played a part in a feature length film called, The Queen of Sheba's Pearls so he will already be good at following instructions in filming.





Protagonist definition:

1. The main character in a drama or other literary work.

2. In ancient Greek drama, the first actor to engage in dialogue with the chorus, in later dramas playing the main character and some minor characters as well.

Antagonist definition:

1. One who opposes and contends against another; an adversary.

2. The principal character in opposition to the protagonist or hero of a narrative or drama.

 

Costume

The main character will be wearing quite stereotypical teenager clothing, probably just jeans and a plain t-shirt with no branding on so as not to advertise company's. 
The Antagonist however will be wearing very dark clothing, making him harder to see and more conceiled. He will be made to look rough, to add to the fear, with the clothes being worn down with holes in. The antagonist will probably wear jeans and a checkered shirt and hoodie, as that is very stereotypical of his role, as it is very simple.
Another idea I had was to completly subvert the horror genre, making him wear a suit as that would look much more formal so as not to expect anything bad of him, leading to more of a twist towards the end.
One final idea was for him to wear a mask as that leaves more to the imagination so you do not know what he's really like and could be trying to hide something.

Props

I will be using very few props as the plot to my short film is fairly simple and in a very remote location. There will be phone used that the protagonist looks at near the beginning, a plastic knife or similar weapon carried by the antagonist and also a noose that will appear in the background of a shot as it connotes the genre of HORROR and could give lots of meanings behind it raising questions about the film.

I found this image of a knife and decided to upload it to show an example of the weapon I'm considering using. This was a good picture showing it as it also helped show the genre of horror with the arm under shadow and the light as well as the focus on the knife. 
I plan to use one and possibly get it to glisten in the sun drawing attention to it.