2. Difficulties
• Some of the difficulties that we faced when deciding
on character and casting was due to the fact that we
don’t really know any professional actors, or older
actors that we could get hold of easily.
• This meant that our trailer could look homemade and
unprofessional.
How did we overcome this?
We overcome this by using makeup on Constance to make her
look older. We also used masks and cloaks on our extras so that
we mixed up the look and the age of the cast, making it look
much more professional.
3. Changes
Why? How?
We decided not to use Kezia What we did instead was used
Budsworth as Laura as her scenes props such as candles and the
were short and gave too much of props from our ancilliary work (the
the narrative away for a teaser wooden sign, masks and a voodoo
trailer. doll), to create shots that were
typically horrific.
We decided that we had to
concentrate on creating more This helped us create a trailer that
shots that conformed to horror scared our audience and so may
conventions rather than giving our help promote it and encourage
narrative away and so the shots them to go and see it.
that we had got with Sam Baker
and Constance seemed to be
enough.
4. What worked well?
• Adam Talbot was a very good attribute to our
trailer as he attended every time we asked him to
and helped make our trailer look professional.
• Katie Holland helped make the trailer scary and
played a good role in which we had planned.
• We also used our crew as extras and the use of
masks and cloaks helped us do this.
• It seems that all of these attributes of casting
decisions worked in making our trailer look more
professional and develop as a whole.
