Casting decisions

For our film we need four actors/ characters. These are;

1.       Lead Character

2.     Attacker 1

3.     Attacker 2

4.     Clown

As a group we have decided to use the idea of challenging the representation of gender. As our lead character we will use a tall male around 20-25 years old. The young male lead character will challenge the representation as it is usually a young female who falls victim in films. We will also use two teenage females to play the attackers as this will also challenge the representation of gender as it is normally males who play violent, abusive, controlling characters. The clown will be played by a suitable actor depending on how we will portray the clown. We have not yet decided whether to use a costume, mask or face paint/ make up to depict the clown character. Anybody else who features in the film will be the general public who happen to appear in the scenes. We will make them aware of our presence and allow them to decline their appearance in the film.