Character profiles/Casting decisions

Because we were only asked to film and edit just the opening of a thriller film, we made the decision to keep character numbers low so that no confusion was caused. Therefore only two characters play a significant role in our thriller opening. Their character profiles and casting decisions for their role are below.

Character Name: Robbie

Actor Name: Charlie Soffe

Decision: We decided to cast Charlie as the character Robbie because we felt his look matched our original interpretation of the character perfectly. The clothes worn by Charlie are much similar to the costume worn by the cast of 'This is England' which was the film that originally inspired our costumes and his general look also replicates this interpretation.

We also felt that Charlie's long, curly hair which partly covered his face, would help to emphasise the enigma behind his character and would create suspense and mystery as a result, which is exactly what we wanted to get from this project.

On top of this, Charlie was also a successful GCSE drama student which meant his acting history also helped us to determine that he was perfect for the role.

Accessibility was also easy with Charlie acting in our film because of the fact that he was also in our filming group.

Character Name: Damien

Actor Name: Will Spalding

Decision: This character was, at different times, played by several different actors. However, once editing we realised that Will was perfect.

His look of a classic, viscious, mischievous teenager/young adult was exactly what we wanted.

The majority of the clothes Will is wearing here are from well known, high-street shops. We thought that this would allow our target audience to relate to our film, which would therefore potentially make it more successful. The clothes are also very plain and dark which mean that they are not giving too much away about his character and therefore keeping the enigma of the character in tact. 

Will also has quite a 'hard to read' face. This allows us to re-inforce our enigmatic theme to the thriller. Hard to read faces are something we researched when planning our thriller and they are used in many successful thriller films such as with the chracter, Louis in 'Jackie Brown' and several characters in the classic thriller, 'The Third Man'.

Also like Charlie, will was in our group which of course made it easy to have him for all shoots.