Actor Scouting

For our supernatural film opening we have decided on the idea of using a possessed girl, for us to follow through with this and begin filming as soon as possible we need to decide on the actor who will feature in it. I have four younger sisters who we could pick from so I took a couple of pictures of all of them to compare and see who would look the most effective in our project.

 My oldest younger sister Ffion is fourteen, we wanted to use a girl who looked older rather than really young as that is a more common convention found within possession horror films, so she would be good with fitting the stereotype and making our opening look professional.

Néve is nine, she is quite confident and would also follow instructions easily and do what we want, she is my second oldest younger sister so would still fit in with the convention of a slightly older girl, as Ffion isn't as confident so wouldn't be as willing for us to film her.

 

Laila is eight, she is slightly younger so probably wouldn't be able to stay professional and may get irritable when we want to film, although she is quite tall for her age and would follow instructions, she may not fit the genre convention as well as we want.

 

 

 

Joely is six and is my youngest sister, she is very confident but as she is still quite young I don't think she would be the best choice for our film opening as she would lose interest easily and be hard to work with, she is also only little so may find it difficult to do some of the actions and positions we will need her to do when acting possessed.
 

 

Overall I think the best choice out of these four would be Néve as she would be the easiest to work with in my opinion and still fits the genre convention that we need her to, but we will continue to scout for any more actors for our films we are still undecided on what exact age we want the girl to be, so we could choose someone from our sixth form around our age or any other relatives or friends that would be willing to get involved. But we do need to consider whether the person would be willing to film the hours we need them to and will be reliable enough to show up and do everything we need them to. That is why we thought it would be convenient for it to be one of my sisters as I can bring her with me to filming and make sure she is always there when needed.