Storyboarding and Filming Sessions

Once we had had our conversation about what our film introduction would entail, drawing inspiration from the audience research, film opening analysis and director anaylysis it was time to combine our ideas into one product, a psychological thriller. Everybody in the group worked on the storyboards which consist of 18 shots.

Below is the filming schedule created...

Our Cast

Antagonist

Ben Nixon

Over a period of two weeks me and the rest of my group were trying to find cast members to play the three roles needed. To increase efficiency we thought it had to be someone we knew outside of school or someone from inside of school. We posted messaged on Facebook advertising an acting role and only gained a few responses. After looking at the names available they didn't really fit the role well enough as we needed someone who looked older than a young adult to play the role of the antagonist, otherwise it wouldn't seem realistic. I suggested my friend Ben Nixon who was slightly smaller than me and had a beard. The fact that he is seen as an attractive man was a bonus for us because it meant that the audience would then be torn between warming to him and being frightened of him. 

Victim

Izzi Harrison

To play the role of the victim we needed someone who had similar characteristics of a classic victim in thriller, such as Victoria (played by Laia Costa). Someone who has a petit frame and a pretty face was our preference because it would be easy to show how stereotypically vulnerable they and the audience would feel inclined to feel sorry for them. To increase efficiency when it came to acting we needed some again in school. Ben at this point had already agreed to be the antagonist and so the group put forward Izzi Harrison to act as the victim as it was not a hard role, that required no movement, but would extremely beneficial in terms of time. 

Detective

Candice Feddis

To increase our USP (Unique Selling Point) we didn't just want to following the mainstream conventions and stereotypes surrounding women in thrillers. In an attempt to break the mould we scrapped the idea of a male playing the role of detective. Our group is made up of 3 girls and 1 boy and due to the fact that that male acted in the preliminary task we decided to have a female detective. We quickly studied some films in which this had been applied and the gender roles had been subverted. Most notably this could be seen in Suicide Squad, 2015, in which the head of a government crime branch was a black female, Viola Davis, in a white-male dominated genre. Again to increase efficiency and the fact that she had experience working in front of and behind the camera, Candice Feddis was put forward to be the detective.

And so we had our cast....

The cast of 'Good Mourning'