Symbolic Convention

The symbolic category refers to clothing and colours. Our clothing is very simple as we only have three characters in our piece. The two policemen wear; smart, black trousers, a smart shirt, black shoes, and one wears a jumper and the other, a casual jacket. The killer wears; wellington boots, jeans, a white T-Shirt and an apron. The policemen’s costumes represent professionalism to them and the job they do, whilst the killers costumes brings him across as a scruffy and dirty person. For the colour part of this convention, for the policemen scene, we will edit it on final cut express to make the colours allot brighter than the original footage and for the killer scene, and then the colours allot duller and darker than the original footage. This contrast of dark and light we will have in the scene change between the policemen and the killer will really bring out the mood of the scene and will give the audience a feel of the atmosphere they are in.