Pre-production: Casting

Characters

Character 1
This is the main protagonist of the story. The plot surrounds this character as we watch her mental and physical deterioration progress throughout our film opening. This character enters the story as a happy, healthy and relatable teenager and then slowly transforms into a vacant shadow of her former self. This character experiences deep mental trauma and by the end of our production she will look both desperate and intimidating, thus stirring emotions of both fear and pity within the audience.

Character 2
This is the 'friend' of our main protagonist. This character will be used as a tool to provoke questions from the audience as to what the reality of these character's situation really is. This character also delivers the main psychological element to our thriller film. This character is introduced as the best friend of our protagonist and through fond and happy memories we see that these two girls are perfectly ordinary and full of life. Then in later recollections we see the girl flash in and out of memories and begin to have violent arguments with Character 1. This will juxtapose her previous representation and therefore create doubt and hesitation within the audience. However, whilst we see our main protagonist's psychical state worsen, this character will remain normal, thus leading the viewer to question her legitimacy and whether she is actually there or a figment of the protagonist's imagination.   

Character 1 - Lauren Barlow 





We have chosen Lauren for this role as she is currently studying musical theatre at Stratford college so therefore has both experience and a strong understanding of representing different characters. She has played many different roles and therefore we felt that she would be able to recognise the darker and more complex sides of this character and thus be able to represent her in a way that is effective with our plot line. She also has the visual characteristics that we were looking for as she is a healthy, relatable, young girl. 








Character 2 - Lauren Bricknell




We chose Lauren as our second protagonist as she also is studying Musical theatre at college as has a very broad understanding of character representation as she has taken on a variety of different roles. We also feel that she will understand the character traits that we are trying to get across with our plot and will therefore represent them well. Again she is also visually appropriate for the character as she is also a healthy, familiar, young girl.