Research - Actors, Characters, Costumes and Props

Actors

When deciding who we would use to act in our film we considered using our friends, people from school and family members. Ultimately we decided that we shuold all star in it even if it were just for a few seconds. This made it easier for us as we did not have to find a lot of other people to star in our film and once we had decided on our storyline it became apparent that we would only need one other person to act in our film.

Rebecca Broadbent

Characters


When it came to deciding what characters we were going to use, we decided we wanted 3 friends, 2 news broadcasters, and a mysterious girl. For the 3 Friends we all would play 1 friend each. These would be normal characters and we would be basically playing ourself. When it came to the news broadcast team, originally i was the main reporter but i then decided to change it to Daniel our friend as me being the main character in the forest, things may get a bit confusing. Jamie played the other news reporter reporting from the forest. For the ghost like figure jamies cousin was the actor as this was te best choice available.

Billy Warville

Costumes

When we were talking about our film I suggested we just wear casual clothes, so that it would let the viewer know that the characters in the film were just everyday people. It would also help to make the film look realistic, rather than have a set costume type. When it came to the mysterious girl, we decided to have her in dark clothing with her hood covering her face to add to the mystery/scary effect. When we filmed the home footage, we decided that a brighter change of clothes was the best idea as the contrast between the two diferent times would be more obvious.

Billy Warville

Props

While discussing what we will be doing for our main film we needed to decide on some props we could use. We decided to use a remote control to turn on the news, we had a map which the characters would look at while in the forest, house furniture to make the home part of the film seem more realistic and a camera was used during the home footage scenes.

Jamie Brookes



29/03/2010