For our thriller the most important two aspects for our thriller was the prop of whiskey and the representation that is shown in the fathers costume.
When deciding on the costume for the fathers character we originally thought of jeans and a scruffy t-shirt, as we believed that this would easily resemble the dirtiness and messed up character that the father represents, as well as complimenting his background with alcoholic issues. But because we wanted to show and reveal to the audience more about his background and failure in his job role as a lawyer we decided to put him in a suit. The importance of this is that the suit would be black, therefore dark colours have connotations that are negative. By dressing him in black it allows the audience members to simultaneously question the fathers innocence and positive role in the thriller, or if he even has a positive aspect about his character at all.
Where as with the prop of the whiskey bottle we had to find apple juice and pour it into the bottle without it actually looking like apple juice. We had two issues with this when shooting the thriller and these were that when the apple juice was poured it bubbled, which made it more difficult when cutting these shots in the editing process, as realism is key in any film, because the audience need to believe it. The other issue was that we only had a certain amount of apple juice, meaning that with each retake of the same shot we were essentially running out of apple juice because our actor had to drink it, which complimented the issues of continuity.
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