Organisation of Actors, locations and props

Our horror piece requires 3 actors; a mum, dad and girl. We have selected various friends and family members who we believe would best uphold these roles, their pictures are in our character profiles. Zac Levin will play the father, despite being 16, he looks much older because of his beard. Olivia Martin will play the motherly role as she comes across as very mature and also looks older than she is. My sister Lily Wiltshire will play the role of the young girl because featuring a younger girl would be more challenging and the concept of the film may scare them. We would require parental permission to feature anyone younger however we can make my sister look younger than she is. Her bedroom is laid out perfectly as one wall consists of a wide window which we will feature in our horror piece. Our other location is a park in Cranham as it is local for everyone involved, so it is easy to get to, but it also is often empty and so we can take advantage of this in order to have no distractions when filming. An isolated park proves to be the perfect location for a horror film as people are vulnerable when isolated. The park is also a place of joy and happiness which fits in with the horror genre as horror films tend to destroy concepts of childhood for example in the film Dead Silence the puppet is possessed and it kills an innocent wife. We have been influenced by this concept of possession by including it in our own horror piece as the doll possesses the girl who then has an out of body experience as she stares at her possessed self outside the window. The props we will require for our piece include a doll, a book and a torch. These are everyday household items which help to reveal the normality of the situation prior to the possession. The bedtime story will end in "and they lived happily ever after" this will help to foreshadow that they will not live happily ever after... We will also require make up in order to make the possessed girl look different, in order to do this we aim to make her look dirty with backcombed hair- much like the girl featured in the exorcist. We aim to also black out her eyes either via editing or the use of blacked out lenses which you can purchase from fancy dress stores.