As I mentioned earlier we wanted Jake (the main character) to be dressed similarly to 'Donnie Darko', considering he had similar hair and figure it seemed to be a good choice. Reason for Donnie was because of his position in school, a social recluse, same as our main character. Donnie's outfit for his Halloween party, the skeleton shirt and trousers, combined with a hoodie, that really isolates him and embodies his personality. Making it a perfect choice for our lead character, however not wanting to directly copy the film, we went for the plain grey hoodie, but opted against Jake wearing anything Halloween related to sort of show he doesn't go with the crowd and to make him stand out. We wanted him to look pure, pale and eyes wide open, to make him seem as on edge however in his own world at the same time.
There were several suggestions made about our killer, and one thing they all had in common was that we didn't want his face to be shown fully once. This is just something we've picked up from a lot of other Thrillers that hide the identity of a killer. There was a bizarre suggestion made that we should dress the killer up like a woman. Initially we were skeptical about the idea, but then we thought if we did it well it would really add to the perverse nature of the killer, make his trademark lipstick stein on the victims make sense and make even more unsettling moments. So instead of what Hitchcock did with Norman Bates, making him dress up as his Mother when he killed, we went for the same approach as Christopher Nolan in the 'Dark Knight'. Originally I was against dressing up like the Joker, I knew we had to do lipstick and I wanted to darken Alex's (the Killer) eyes to might look deprived of sleep and like he had been beaten. But I hated the idea of taking someone else's character, it took away our individuality. However we decided that we would only use those lipstick and make-up pencil and nothing else to make our character similar to Joker.
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