Casting and Mise en scene

I felt that for my teaser trailer it was really important to undergo casting to ensure that i had the right actor for my teaser trailer. I want to appeal to a wide range of audiences and I knew that i wanted to use a female actress, to fit with the main conventions of a thriller, where normally women are used as the main charachter because they are assoicated with being weaker and more emotional would be affective. I also wanted to use a female that would be of the simular age to the core audience watching the film, which would be 18, as my film is going to a mature pyschological thriller.For my casting, i selected a group of girls from my sixthform college as then it would be easy to select for filimg,and then i narrowed it to the 3 i have displayed below.




Aimee, I choose her for the final 3 of casting because i feel that she had a really natural look that i could work with and i would be able to create a variety of good looks.



 Liane, I choose her because she has a completley different look and she has a good variety of acting skills as she is a drama student. I overall choose her to be the female protagonist character. 



                           Dom agian has a really natural look and i think that she would look really good on camera to work with.



Mise En Scene

Mis en Scene wise, for my first shot i am going to have a exteme close up of the females eyes, showing her normal and then crying, and the next shot is going to be a close up of newspaper articles.As alot of my filming is outside, i wanto choose a really good location to film. Also because i am going to use a split screen when editing i also need to choose a location where it is going to be easy to film and not much will change, for example in a feild,compared to a busy public place. I would like to film up a country lane, where the lane is straight and just has trees covering it on either side of the road, which i feel i know the perfect location for. I also want to film a little part in a dark location, which i feel i might just use the same lane and film it at a different time during the day to get the lighting effect how i want it. I understand that i need to undergo some practise filming to see if these locations and lighting techniques etc will actually be sucessful and work. I feel that the location i have choose to film fits in really well with the conventions of a thriller film as they are usually located in iscolated and quiet creepy places or busy public places. I feel that the compostion of alot of my shots will be quite simple, and the edditing using split screen for example to put 2 shots together will really show a good result on my finished product.