Casting For The Stalkers

We cast Louise Chick as our female protagonist because she looked the part of a victim in a horror film. She is young and blonde and so conveys innocence, meaning that the audience will fear for her safety, and keep them interested in the film. This is her audition tape, where we asked her to read out our first draft script, which would be used for the voice over on the credits.


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We have now cast our two minor parts of the stalkers. Although these characters are integral to the film, they have no dialogue in the opening two minutes and are only seen fleetingly. For this reason, we didn't need to hold a proper audition, more ask for volunteers and then check they were okay for the times when we are filming in January and were old enough. These are our stalkers;

Stalker #1 - Matthew Bonner
Stalker #2 - Keegan Featherstone

We recorded them briefly just saying who they are, and what part they were going to be playing.

Prop List

These are the props that we used in our Horror Film;

-dark clothing

-set of keys

-red hair dye

-white coat

-hooded jumpers.

As per most horror films, we will make use of fake blood, probably on several of the shots of the victims laying dead. We'll also use makeup to try and make bruises on some of the female victims in the various flashes. Here we experimented with different makeup tecniques to create brusing to the characters face. As you can see, the coloured makeup created a good bruise on Emmalines face, therefore we will definatly be using makeup when creating the flashes.

We'll also need a set of house keys for our main female character to drop, as this motion alone leads into one of the flashes of film showing part of what has happened after this point.

Our male characters will be wearing hoods, so that their faces are almost entirely shadowed, so the hoods are essential, this also adds to the ambiguity of the characters and the film as a whole.
As for the female character costumes, they will be wearing formal or casual attire, to show that there is a range of victims and that no particular class is targeted, but there will be nothing particularly defining about their costume, for example we will avoid using red in their clothing, as this is a colour usually associated with the antagonist.
A white coat was used on the main character, to show her innocence. It was also good because as we were filming in the darker part of the afternoon, you could see our main female character very well.