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In this production post, I'll discuss the costume design we've been planning for the final filming.

Use of Blood:

• As previously mentioned, one of the main components to the costume design for both parents is the use of blood. We wanted to showcase that they'd gone through battles, having to kill or stop any zombies or people that had gone in their way.
• I want to place it on their arms and necks, as well as on props in order to further solidify this idea.
• We want to use this blood in order to emphasize the severity of what's occurring, adding a fear factor, while showcasing the severity of the situations that the characters will be going through.

The zombie:

• In one of my past blogs, I mentioned how we wanted to use an all-black fit for the zombie, so that they would appear more darker, blending with the dark atmosphere that we want to develop throughout the opening.
• I'd originally planned for this costume, an all-black, latex costume that we could purchase off Amazon. The problem is, I'm not the zombie, Nic is, so when I pitched him this idea of maybe being able to pitch in money in order to buy one, he already had a costume similar to what I wanted!
• Luckily for us the Halloween of 2024, he'd bought a Grim Reaper costume for the event, so we'd chosen that would be the best fit for the costume.
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• For the costume we won't be using the gloves since we don't want the zombie looking like a skeleton.
• Also, we'd chosen that we wanted to cut off the bottom part of the sleeves that show the flaky long ribbon-like appearance. (I have no idea what that's called)
• We don't like how it look on the character, striving away from the general idea of what you imagine when you think of a zombie, although we are using a grimp reaper type costume we want to film it in a way where it doesn't look like the costume design is meant for the grim reaper.

Jason Gray:

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  Like the zombie, I've also mentioned on past posts what I wanted for Jason Grays costume design to be like.
• I had portrayed him with darker, raggedy, and baggier clothes.
• I want these clothes to help represent the character, originally portraying him as a confident, more laid-back character. 
• I specifically make his pants lean more toward cargo to show that he's ready for anything in this setting, always being able to carry stuff whenever needed.
• This outfit, although looking simplistic helps convey the type of character, showing emotion in their and personality in the type of clothes they wear.
• I went with this more simplistic design because I want to show how even characters who would seem to have things controlled, with confidence can be traumatized, lunging into darker aspects, filled with fear, and uncontrollably terrified.
• I of course show this in the series when I portray the husband's moments of despair after witnessing his wife's death, as well as in the final chase scene.
• The character will also be wearing a golden cross chain, to show his religion, giving a further feeling of desperation of how not even God can save you in these situations.
• I also want to show him wearing a watch, a Casio watch, one that I already own.
• It's meant to symbolize practicality, offering this idea of him being laid-back, yet practical and confident, which I strip these personalities from his character with the events.
• I want to then finish this off with dirty, not completely worn out, but used-looking shoes in order to show that this still takes place many years into the apocalypse, and even though society isn't ruined yet, and people can still dress themselves that they still need to be ready and vigilant for anything. I want to include this to maybe add some sense of adventure, always outdoors.

Owen Gray:

• Honestly, for Owen Gray, (the son) I don't really plan anything, we're only going to show his eyeball or maybe face for a quick few seconds, not really needing anything planned.

Heather Gray:

• For Heather Gray, we were really planning an outfit that consisted of a white shirt with black pants
• I wanted to go with this mixture to show parts of her personality that the clothes would represent.
• For example, when I throughout of the black, I was thinking in a more professional and sophisticated type of view on her character, which like the father would also be tossed aside as the terror provided in the story would show her true fear.
• For the white, I was thinking of a more pure and simple tone to show she's more casual with her own types of elegance.
• With the suspension being built throughout the story, I want to show how the story affects her.

This is an outline of how I wanted the characters to be portrayed, to show their costume designs, as well as a background to the personalities I wanted to show in some.