Actors

Actors

 

 

 

Harry Preen- victim/ runaway spy.

 

We chose Harry to play this character because out of the 3 guys in our group harry is the smallest also he looks the weakest and therefore the most vunerable.

We dressed Harry in a black leather jacket, dark jeans/ trousers and black boots, he also wore a shirt and tie and carried a, fake, gun. We dressed Harry in this way because we were hoping to achieve a similar look to one we saw created in the film “tinker, tailor, soldier, spy”. I think Harry’s character was well dressed because he looked like he would fit into a crowd but still look slightly out of place.

 

Richard Gledhill-German Officer (1).

 

We chose Richard as one of the two officers because he visually fits the role, also we thought it would create an intimidating. to act as this character richard wore a dark military style jacket and had his hair Jelled back in a smart officer fashion.

 

 

 

Felix Rouch- German Officer (2).

 

We also used Felix as a German officer because he too visually fits the role. We were also hoping to create an intimidating atmosphere by using two officers against the one spy (Harry Preen). Felix was quite hard to dress in costume, as he is quite tall! we managed to find him a dark

Military style jacket similar to Richards so that they would look alike and as though they were in uniform. We chose the darker jackets because dark colours and shadowing is often used in older films , such as double indemnity, to portray the “bad” in the characters. As a visual this worked well, especially as we didn’t have the option of creating much of our own lighting or shadowing.

 

 

 Helen Willcock- Backseat murderer.

 

I was chosen to be the killer in our thriller opening because we wanted to introduce a new character and to have a twist in our storyline. I also had the dark but unlikely appearance; small, girl and dark hair. When I was dressed in costume I wore my hat so that it tilted forward a little over my eyes, this was to create a sense of mystery because not all of my face was being shown. We also chose to hide from my eyes up, with the hat, because we didn’t want to show too much expression, this is similar to a technique policemen use. Overall we are hoping to have the audience questioning what Is happening and what is going to happen next.

 

 

 

 

We decided to split the characters in this way because in our group Harry is best at acting like a mysterious but weak character. Also Felix and Richard visually fit the theme of the German officers (blonde hair, taller). I was chosen as Harry’s backseat murderer because we wanted to add a twist into the story of our film; we were inspired by double indemnity in which there is a female character who plans her husband’s death.