Rebekah Bigwood as The Lady in the Gas MaskBecky from our group has been chosen to play The Lady in the Gas Mask. Our reasons for this include the fact of convenience, as it's easier to choose somebody from our group to be apart of our film as then we don't need to sort out filming schedules with a lot of people. By view of appearance, Becky is a good choice as she has a feminine build to clearly show that the character in the gas mask is a woman. She is also fairly tall, which adds to the character's feature of intimidation and power – this goes against many film conventions of women being submissive and powerless to the comparison of men. Also she has longish brown hair which is a feature we wanted for the character, and extends on what she and her features represent i.e. brown hair is fairly generic and not necessarily modern which could build on the fact that gas masks were also used in wars a long time ago which perhaps could represent the duration that this woman has existed. There is also the point that Becky owns the appropriate clothing and props to be used for her character.
In high school I worked with Becky in making videos for certain subject projects and she is a very agreeable person to work with and also holds fairly good acting skills.
Jos Banham as RhysAgain, for convenience we decided to choose Jos to play the character Rhys to prevent having to arrange a filming schedule with people outside of our group. Rhys is a character that looks fairly normal but in fact is not; and Jos is pretty ordinary looking and has a fairly casual personality which fits the appearance of our character. As Rhys is meant to look fairly ordinary, but in actual fact is not. He is also relatively tall and has dark hair, so could come across as frightening and suspicious is filmed in the proper way to emphasis this. We chose this kind of character in order to show the audience that ordinary-looking people can have severe background stories and problems; the casting of Jos allows us to create this illusion of a normal person.
You have given good reasons for your casting choices. Were the decisions easy to agree as a group and have you found the filming harder with two of your group acting in it?
ReplyDeleteBecky was enthusiastic about playing the role she was given, she primarily suggested herself and we all agreed. Neither Jos or Jordan particularly wanted to act but since we thought it would be easier if we had actors from within our group Jos reluctantly complied.
ReplyDeleteAlthough Becky was in charge of the storyboard, and therefore was the most knowledgable of the camera shot, it wasn't too difficult to achieve what both she and we wanted. Jordan manned the camera most of the time and was good at conforming to the storyboard Becky had written. It was relatively manageable even though two of our group members had to act as well as direct.