Originally the daughter was going to be fifteen years of age however our actress was in fact 17 years old. We were going to use a school girl as the sartorial codes of her uniform would portray her as innocence . However we did not use the uniform in the end, instead we portrayed the school girl in ordinary teenage wear to convey her social group and age. We used a long shot of her walking and standing alone at the school gates to suggest her vulnerability. As the character has blonde/brown hair, this type of characteristic is usually associated with the stereotypical characters of the “blonde women” victims portrayed in thrillers.
The antagonist identity is not revealed until the kidnapping scene in the opening. The ‘villain’ or ‘psycho’ in thrillers often their identity is concealed such as in ‘Urban Legends’ to further enhance suspense and mystery about the character.
We chose to use close up shots of the black gloves, his eyes and mid-shots of his waist down to keep his identity a secret. The sartorial codes of the gloves presents him to be more menacing and his dark casual clothing appeals to the audiences primal fears as his appearance is average which makes the kidnapping seem more distressing and out of the ordinary.
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