Character Ideas

Here are a few ideas we had when brainstorming what we want our character to look and act like. We had to take under consideration that we would eventually have to find someone to fit our requirements so our ideas had to be within reason. This is what we came up with:

Age

• Our ideal character would be the playing age of teens, between 15 and 17 as they'd be both mature whilst their innocence would still be portrayed clearly.

Gender

• We decided that having a female protagonist would be most suitable for our chosen storyline.

Hair

• Our original thoughts were that our character should have long hair of any colour but after some deliberation we decided that they should have long dark hair.

Height

• We would want our character to be around the average height of a 16 year old to further portray the character. This way her age would be fairly recognisable. 

Features of personality

• Innocent
• Confused
• Depressed
• Uncontrollable 
• Anxious

Additional requirements

• Black pupils - will use eye contacts for this feature.

Inspiration
Our ideas were inspired by a selection of characters from not only horror films but ones of other genres as well. Here are some of the characters that inspired us:

• Samara Morgan (The Ring):

The requirement of our character having long hair was inspired by that of Samara Morgan. Her long hair made her more mysterious.

• Toshio Saeki (Ju-On, The Grudge):

The requirement for our character having black pupils was partially inspired by this character as it adds that all important horrifying side effect.

• Tumblr

Looking for inspiration through creepy-themed tumblr pages we came across this image. This is a similar look as we thought our character should have but with long dark hair, not white. This image inspired us to consider this kind of make-up both white and black colours.



Once we gathered an idea of what we wanted our character to look like we had to try and find someone willing to portray the character. We selected and contacted five different people in which fitted our criteria and then decided as a group who we thought would do the best job and come across as the most convincing. Here are the five people we narrowed our decision down to:

Megan Cunningham
Age: 17
Height: 5ft 8

Hannah Bouhamdi
Age: 12
Height: 5ft 4

Silvia Presente
Age: 16
Height: 5ft 7

Phoebe Cooper
Age: 16
Height: 5ft 8

Miriam Maslin
Age: 17
Height: 5ft 6

Our Final Decision
To make our final decision as to who to cast in our film opening we took under consideration whether or not they would be reliable and be willing to spend some of their free time filming with us. In addition we ended up choosing the person we thought would do the best job as being the character we wanted to include. We chose Silvia Presente.