Planning: Casting for 'Inner Demon'

Before filming our opening film we had to find castings for the Antagonist and the Protagonist. We needed two people who fitted the correct criteria in our narrative. We needed a victim, female to stereotypically link to the genre of horror and an antagonist with mankinline traits and long hair with a scary presents to play the certain roles required.

Character- Protagonist, Victim

Actress- Jade Suddaby

Why Casted- The appearance is what we wanted as she looks innocent and sweet creating tension for the audience suggesting she is a threat and likely to be in the most danger. We feel that she looks in good health and has the ability and fitness to jog in the opening. She is the right age to appeal to the right target audience with a young adult look which is the stereotypical victim in many films with our chosen genre. It will also by for practical to cast her as we are working together to produce the film so she can really understand the type of role to play and what we want it to be like. This helps us both to gain a stronger understanding on what works and what doesn't, allowing us to make changes if needed.

  

Role/Involvement- Jade will be shown throughout the whole opening as she will be the main character and the key focus. She will take part in jogging through certain locations captured on a wide range of shots while being completely oblivious that the Antagonist is following her the whole time until the very end where she looks scared and turns around to see the creature lurking. The shots where she will act oblivious towards the Antagonist creates tension and mystery for audience and shows the role she is playing is vulnerable and in danger. She is also head of Make-up and Costume design as well as co-producer, co-editor.


Character- Antagonist

Actress- Holly Suddaby

Why Casted- The appearance is what we wanted as I have long hair to cover my face and to show effect mis es scent that links to the genre and narrative of our opening. We wanted the character to show traits of unpractical and mansline and I felt I'm not really a girly girl to I would be suitable for the role. The fact I'm taking on this role allows me to understand the narrative better and know what works as I helped create our storyboard and like to use my ideas for this role.

Role/Involvement- I will be shown at the end of the opening film in the background with my hair over my face in the neutral standing position to build up tension for the audience. Close to the end I will be behind the Protagonist where she stops and looks behind, I'm cleverly cutout so I've disappeared. When she turns away she is looking at the camera and turns 'evil' with blackout eyes and rotted teeth surprising the audience while I'm in the background and eventually come right up to the camera, leaping forward. I'm also head producer, co-editor, co-makeup and co-costume design.

Other team member- Jack Suddaby

Involvement- co-camera man, supplying special equipment

Experience- Jack is well experienced in the media industry, with a career in photography, DJing and with a current profession in the radio industry. Therefore he understands target audiences needs. Aswell as producing and acting in a couple of homemade films on the sidelines he has now managed to create his own company called SubLime Arts where he produces advertisement for companies and builds up his portfolio. We thought he is the perfect person to help us create our film to a high standard, not just because he's our brother and gives us expertise on our film opening but he has a lot of useful equipment which will improve are opening (refer to equipment post) .

Note on the side- 

Although Jade and myself are both casting in the opening I will only appear in one of the scenes for a short while, So I'm able to shoot the opening to the highest standard. When Jade is off the scene the role of the camera management will change to ensure we are both capturing the shots and care about the quality more than being in the actual shots. This is important to show the audience a clear and stable film opening.