PowerPoint about our characters and wardrobe choices...

1. Casting Shots and Wardrobe

2. Actor 1
Actor Profile Character Profile
Name: Benjamin Handley Name: Jack
Role: Main male character (Jack) Role: Main character
Reason for casting: Ben is a strong Background: Jack is an average 16 year old
looking person capable of expressing boy but he has a secret. Trying to ignore
his emotions well. The conviction of what he is hiding, Jack still goes about
emotions is important as later on in everyday typical activities such as hanging
the opening sequence, people need out with his girlfriend, going to school and
to feel sorry for him when he see’s chilling out with his friends. His fashion
his girlfriend lying dead on the floor sense is one of a typical teenage boy, often
and so they can relate to what the reverting to just wearing jeans and a shirt.
character is feeling. Ben is also of a Just by looking at him, you wouldn’t believe
similar age to the target audience he is hiding anything so when his secret is
which again helps to allow the revealed later on in the film, it makes it
audience to relate and connect to even more shocking.
him. He is also very tall and stands
out making him even more suitable
for the main role.
The general wardrobe is ‘casual’. This look is typically worn by
people of the same age and gender and would therefore
suggest that he is like everyone else and helps the audience to
relate to the character. It helps to make him look innocent
and unaware of what is about to happen to him which would
help to shock the audience.

3. Actor 2
Actors Profile Character Profile
Name: Tiria Barnes Name: Natasha
Role: Natasha (Jack’s Girlfriend) Role: Girlfriend
Reason for casting: Tiria looks like a Background: A typical week for Natasha
sweet and innocent person and has consists on hanging out with friends, doing
that girlish but normal look about her. school work and going on dates with Jack.
Due to her early death, it is important Natasha has always stayed away from
that the audience create a connection trouble and is well behaved at school while
towards her so that her death has a also being a little bit shy. She had no idea
larger impact on them. Tiria will also on what Jack and his friends had gotten
appeal to the target audience as she is into. She comes from a wealthy
of similar age to them. Having her be background and her appearance reflects
young and attractive makes the that but she is anything far from being
audience feel a sense of pity towards stuck up and snobby.
her.
Tiria will be wearing simple black leggings and a baggy shirt
which is typically what people in our target audience also wear
out as well. She will also be wearing a fake red fur coat to
show the audience that she is quite wealthy but the converses
she is wearing will help remind them that she is still a
teenager. This outfit along with neutral make-up has the right
balance between beauty and innocence as an outfit that
would be more revealing would distract the audience from her
her vulnerability.

4. Actor 3
Actor Profile Character Profile
Name: Gisella Omole Name: Frankie
Role: Friend of Jacks (dead body) Role: Jack’s Friend
Reason for casting: Gisealla again has Background: Frankie care’s for all of one
the look of innocence about her but person. Herself. She enjoys the thrill of
this time will have a bit more make-up getting in trouble, getting arrested by
on, especially around the eyes, to try police on a frequent bases. Frankie is in on
and make her look a little more Jack’s secret and even helped him cover it
mysterious to the audience. Having up. She has no time for school and would
the make-up will make her character rather spend her time getting high
come off as stronger and make the somewhere. Her death was not as big of a
audience aware that she was in on the shock to Jack as it was Natasha’s. Natasha
secret that Jack was hiding. Her did not like her and constantly asked Jack
beauty and age however still allow the to stay away from her.
audience to connect to her.
Gisella will be dressed in black leggings and a large coat. She
will also have on heavy eyeliner to give her a sense of mystery
and to make her seem stronger than the other 2 characters
who died. The coat suggests to the audience that she was
going somewhere and that her death was unexpected. Having
her dress in all black also helps to build up her mysterious
image as black is often associated with sneaking around and
hiding.

5. Actor 4
Actor Profile Character Profile
Name: Katie Coxon Name: Kate
Role: Friend of Natasha and Jack Role: Jack and Natasha’s Friend
(dead body) Background: Originally Friends with
Reason for casting: Katie has the Natasha, Kate grew to be friends with Jack
look of innocence of her due to her when him and Natasha started dating. She
fare skin and hair. Her face is quite was always well behaved and had never
friendly and therefore allows the been in trouble a day in her life. Kate was
audience to create a sense of pity actually aware of Jack’s secret but never
towards her. She is again of similar told Natasha about it as she thought she
age to the audience which helps the was protecting her safety. It turns out she
audience to feel a connection to her. was wrong.
Katie will wear a jeans and a nice shirt, something people
would wear from our target audience. She will also be
wearing a leather Jacket and boots to make it look like she
was going somewhere important (perhaps a date) and
makes her death seem more sudden to the audience. Her
make up will be plain and simple so that it doesn’t distract
the viewers from her purity. Her outfit also doesn’t reveal
much and again helps to keep her sense of vulnerability
intact.

6. The next following slides are for people we
intended to cast but had to change due to
a conflict in schedules....

7. Actor 1
Character Profile
Actor Profile Name: Nathanial
Name: Joseph Barlow Role: Jack’s best friend
Role: Nathanial (Jack’s best friend) Background: Compared to Jack, Nathanial's
Reason for casting: Joe has a striking innocents is buried under is sense of
face that is very serious and can hold mystery. Nathanial has a past full of crime
a facial expression for a long time and mischief, with him being arrested 2
which is needed because he will be times for drug use. Jack and Nathanial’s
playing a dead person laying on the friendship was unexpected but was strong.
ground. He has quite a mysterious The strength of their friendship will be
look about him which will make shown constantly through out the film,
audience intrigued to find out what showing the audience what they got up to
he’s has done that has caused him to and also making the death at the beginning
die. Joe’s serious look contrasts with have more of an impact on them and
Ben’s (Jack’s) innocent look which helping them to sympathise with Jack later
would make audience members on in the film.
wonder why they are friends and
want to find out more about what
they have gotten themselves into.
The wardrobe is still ‘casual’ with the character wearing
typical jeans and a shirt. This helps the audience relate to the
character and show them that both Jack and Nathanial are
close in age. However this time the character will be wearing
a long black coat to make him look more mysterious and
show the audience that he was the mischievous one of the
pair. Having the casual clothes makes it seem like his death
was unexpected and makes the audience wonder who killed
him and why.

8. Actor 2
Actor Profile Character Profile
Name: Nicholas Clay Name: Jay
Role: Jack’s friend Role: Jack’s friend
Reason for casting: Nick has a Background: Jay was the innocent
very innocent face which will bystander in Jack’s activities, having no idea
make it easier for the audience to what he was up to until it was to late. He
connect with him as they would was well behaved but still knew how to
sympathise for him with his have a good time. His death was
blonde hair and blue eyes really unexpected by Jack and had a big impact
bringing out the innocence in his on him as he had nothing to do with what
face making his death have a he was doing. Jay had good grades and had
larger on the people watching. His high hopes for the future.
age is again similar to the
audience, enabling them to relate
to him easier.
Nick will still have a ‘casual’ wardrobe so that the audience
can easily relate to him as it something they would typically
wear. We didn’t want the out he is wearing distract from his
purity so that his death could have a large emotional effect
on the audience. The outfit also helps to reflect his age again
making him more relatable.