Casting // Pre-Production

Fortunately for us the casting process was very simple and easy as two of the people in our group decided to act and we only have two characters in the opening.

The casting is as follows:

Antagonist - Wilhelmina Denness

Suzanne Moors (stock character) - Indya Clayton

 

 

Why did we agree to this?

 

Wilhelmina and Indya are both part of our group (Hidden Pictures) and therefore will be very reliable as actresses. They both enjoy acting and as we have come up with the idea for our film opening together they both understand the plot and what we are trying to achieve so will be able to act in the right way to make our film opening effective.

 

In addition to this they are available on the days we are filming and logistically will be able to get to the location easily as it is quite close by.

Mise en scene:

(I have annotated these photos. To see the annotations click on the photos and view them on the Flickr website.)
 



The preferred reading of Wilhelmina and Indya are very good.

I think Wilhelmina, wearing the right costume and make up, will easily be able give off a creepy feeling and become a character people are scared of. The audience will relate her character to other things they don't like and not want to think about the antagonist. This is something we definitely want to achieve as conventionally in supernatural horrors the antagonist is someone/thing who the audience are afraid of and don't want to think about.

The audience will be able to read Indya as a typical professional, smartly dressed woman. This subverts the archetypal role of women however as our film is set in the present time it is now more typical for some women to be professional and working. All of this is because Indya wears a suitable amount of make up and her costume will make her look older than she is.