Casting of Characters

We came up with the idea that:

• Toby would be the protagonist and be the joint main focus of the thriller film. (Toby's character would remain with the name Toby) - The seemingly innocent and vulnerable character being followed by an intimidating hooded character. 
• Myself (Fred) would be the antagonist and be the joint main focus of the thriller film. The characters name that I play is called Holly, - the mysterious, faceless, hooded character shadowing Toby's every move. 
• Luke would be a character that only really featured at the end of the film. Luke would play the character of Harry. 

I volunteered to play the role of Holly as I would appear to play the antagonist in our thriller film until the role of the antagonist switches from Jack to Harry, almost as if there has been a shift of power and danger. I volunteered for this role as I am a tall person which can be intimidating to smaller people as I am looking down on them, causing a sense of fear which can be created effectively. I wear a hood in our thriller film to hide my identity and create a sense of confusion as to who I am, when we began to film we realized that this was effective and due to my height and build, it made me seem intimidating and feared which created a tension about my presence. We decided to have the third character of Harry in our thriller film to create a sense of confusion as then there are two possible suspects in the form of Harry and Toby who could have left me dead on the floor of the lift. This also props the question to the audience of who is the character to fear in this film. Luke is also hooded to hide his identity. 

Initially our group consisted of myself, Luke and Holly, but unfortunately Holly decided to leave sixth form therefore leaving just myself and Luke as part of our group. This meant we had to find an extra person to act in our thriller film as we had planned our film with three characters and thought changing it at quite a late stage may have affected our film. Therefore we had to find another person to play Holly's role and Tobias Jones (who is in our media class) said he would be able to help us out. This kept the tally of actors being used at 3 which is what we had initially planned and from this, we will be able to make a very well made opening sequence.