Actors: Character Profile and Casting!

I thought after creating the storyboard and thinking more about the characters that we should think more about characteristics and detailed information about the characters so the audience and people who are portraying the character understand more. This will help with thinking about the small bit of dialogue that will be in the opening sequence and thinking about how the character is perceived by the audience. We have made some changes to our original idea as we have also decided instead of using a man and a woman, we would show 2 women in their late teens/early 20's, we thought this would work better as they would be housemates rather than partners as it would connect more to the main target audience plus me and Rachel were up for acting in our opening sequence which made it simpler.

Name: Lindsey Thomas

Age: 19-20

Character facts:

• Young woman who studies Biology at University and has a passion for it.
• Best friends with Lindsay, met in secondary school, go to the same uni and now lives with her.
• Very curious person, wants to know about things, which explains why in the opening sequence he wonders whats in the box and even puts his hand in it.
  
• Quite cool and relaxed, doesn't like to make a deal out of something that maybe really she is worried/panicked about.

What their actual role is: The main character that finds a mysterious random cat box in the middle of a wooded area when walking home from the shops. She is the one who gets scratched by the animal tested cat and becomes infected.

Costume: Casual clothing that is not too old fashioned as she is just a normal late teenager but maybe a jacket or scarf, nothing too fancy as she is walking through a wooded area.

Actor/Actress playing the role: Rachel Aylott agreed to play the role as Sarah Davis and I think she would be great at portraying the role. She hasn't had too much drama experience but I think Rachel can cleverly show the characteristics that have to come through within the acting for the character of Sarah Davis.

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Name: Sarah Davis
Age: 19-20

Character facts:

• Young woman who studies Medicine at University
  
• Best friends
  with Sarah, met in secondary school, go to the same uni and now lives with her.
• Caring and hard working person, likes to help people.
  

What their actual role is: The secondry character that worries about Sarah when she comes back scratched, she knows that it doesn't look right but Sarah doesnt make a fuss so she lets it go.

Costume: Casual clothing that is not too old fashioned as she is just a normal late teenager e.g. jeans, top and cardigan.

Actor/Actress playing the role: I agreed to portray the character of Lindsay Thomas. I have had quite a bit of experience in Drama and I am taking an A Level in Drama and Theatre Studies but I wasn't too sure about being the main character in this project as I was in the preliminary task and I wanted to focus more on Media in this main task such as editing and camerawork.