Casting Descison and Why
When casting a trailer it is important to choose the right people to play certain characters, this meant that we had to look into how each role would be played before we were decide who the cast would be. The main character of our trailer is a 17 year old girl who becomes possessed by a dead man, previously living in the house. The other characters are three teenagers, the same age as the other girl, who all get murdered. They are all responsible, young adults however they can be naive when it comes to being under the influence of someone else (Mr Cullen).
Our Cast:
Holly Frost:
Holly is playing the character of one of the girls who becomes possessed by Mr Cullen, played by Vince Frost. A number of incidents happen during our horror trailer where Mr Cullen re-creates his families death through possessing Holly and making her murder her friends she's on holiday with. The first death Holly is possessed to do is to smash Ffion's face into the bathroom mirror which smashes and then leads to her death which is a stabbing. The second death is Holly brutally drowning Hannah in the kitchen sink and our final death is the hanging of Ryan in the garage.
Ffion Locke:
Ffion is playing the character of one of the girls who is murdered by Holly. She looks into the mirror and see's Holly stood behind her, she then gets her face forced into the mirror which smashes and leads to her getting stabbed in the neck with a sharp piece of broken glass. Ffion's death connects to Mr Cullen's daughter's death as he murdered her in the same way in the very same bathroom.
Hannah Sterry:
Hannah is playing the character of another girl who is murdered by Holly. She is washing up in the kitchen and sees Holly's reflection in the window ahead of her. Holly then drowns Hannah in the basin. Her death connects to Mr Cullen's wife's death as he drowned her in the kitchen sink when she was washing up.
Ryan Chevannes:
Ryan plays the only boy in the trailer who get murdered by Holly. He is the last death in our horror as this symbolises the death of Mr Cullen because he hung himself in the very same garage after murdering his own family.
Holly Frost:
Holly is playing the character of one of the girls who becomes possessed by Mr Cullen, played by Vince Frost. A number of incidents happen during our horror trailer where Mr Cullen re-creates his families death through possessing Holly and making her murder her friends she's on holiday with. The first death Holly is possessed to do is to smash Ffion's face into the bathroom mirror which smashes and then leads to her death which is a stabbing. The second death is Holly brutally drowning Hannah in the kitchen sink and our final death is the hanging of Ryan in the garage.
Ffion Locke:
Ffion is playing the character of one of the girls who is murdered by Holly. She looks into the mirror and see's Holly stood behind her, she then gets her face forced into the mirror which smashes and leads to her getting stabbed in the neck with a sharp piece of broken glass. Ffion's death connects to Mr Cullen's daughter's death as he murdered her in the same way in the very same bathroom.
Hannah Sterry:
Hannah is playing the character of another girl who is murdered by Holly. She is washing up in the kitchen and sees Holly's reflection in the window ahead of her. Holly then drowns Hannah in the basin. Her death connects to Mr Cullen's wife's death as he drowned her in the kitchen sink when she was washing up.
Ryan Chevannes:
Ryan plays the only boy in the trailer who get murdered by Holly. He is the last death in our horror as this symbolises the death of Mr Cullen because he hung himself in the very same garage after murdering his own family.
We used Ffion to play the blonde character in our trailer because it is typical to have a young, dumb, blonde female in a film who dies first. These four examples on the right are of blonde victims with their killers from the films: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Blonde victims are used because it is typical for for them to die first as they usually do irresponsible and stupid things which trap them into their death.
With our trailer we challenged the media conventions as Ffion was responsible and didn't do anything to provoke the killer. However we still wanted to have Ffion as our first death. |
One of the children from the film 'Sinister' inspired us to create Holly's character. She is possessed by the Yuri and would have been targeted by him because she is a vulnerable child. This girl is made to kill her family as no-one would expect a young child to do this. This links to Holly's character because no-one would expect her to murder her friends when they went on holiday together. She is a 17 year old girl who is petite and female, this shows the audience that she is more vulnerable so would be targeted.
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In the film 'Ouija' a brunette girl who is shown in the picture on the left was murdered. This inspired us to use Hannah to play the part of another girl as she has brown hair and get's murdered in our trailer. We challenged the media conventions by not only having a blonde girl get murdered we also had a brunette get murdered too.
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For Ryan's character we decided to use a teenage boy who would hang himself in the trailer, in the film 'The Gallows' a teenage boy accidentally hung himself due to a prop malfunction in a school play, he now haunts the school. We used Ryan to play this death as his character didn't intentionally kill himself and in 'The Gallows' the boy didn't mean to kill himself either. The only reason why Ryan's character killed himself was because his death links to Mr's Cullen's suicide.
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Below shows us as our characters when we arrived at our destination. Starting from the left shows Ryan Chevannes, then Hannah Sterry, Ffion Locke and Holly Frost on the right.