Here is our main actress, Hannah C, in costume on our final day of filming. We chose to have our character dressed formally, because this is how you might expect a psychiatrist to dress at work.
The outfit consists of very dark colours, to show that our character is shady. We wanted Hannah to wear a skirt, to highlight her femininity as we are challenging the typical conventions of a psychological thriller in which male actors usually appear as the lead role.
We also chose to keep her hair out because it looks less tidy and it falls in front of her face, which gives the audience the impression that she is keeping her face hidden. This emphasizes not only her introverted personality as perceived by the public eye, but also her paranoia and lack of self confidence.
Hannah wore minimal makeup, as we wanted her to appear sophisticated and professional to her patients.
We also used a few props...
The prescription we used, which Hannah C administers to Hannah F in the office scene. We used a real prescription from the surgery to make the scene look more realistic.
The large pill bottle was originally shot so our title could go on the bottle, so we covered it with a plain white sticky label however the titles needed to be bigger, and there was a risk of the title text getting lost as the bottle appears to be quite small on screen.
Another important prop was Hannah's glasses, which we used to film one of our favourite POV shots in the opening. We think the glasses were key in highlighting one of the main side effects - 'blurred vision'.
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