Main Task

Actors:

Charlie Lesley can be seen above, she played the dead girl in our thriller as she is a teenager who is almost 19, so fits the role of the dead 19 year old girl perfectly. Charlie has experience in acting as she takes drama and therefore she found it easy to act out her murder and keep still whilst we filmed her lying dead on the floor with her eyes open.

Jack Higgs can be seen above. He played the protagonist in our media project, the dead girl's father. We chose Jack for this part as his deep voice fitted the role perfectly especially for the threatening phone call which was the main basis of the sinister atmosphere of our thriller.

Michael Scorer can be seen above. He plays the main police detective in our thriller. We chose Michael as he looks a lot older then the other actors making him seem more distinguished and therefore fit the role of the detective perfectly. Although Michael has had no previous acting skills, he did feature in our preliminary task and we were impressed at how well he did.

Mike Elsayed can be seen above. He played the part of our second police detective as he looks mature yet younger than michael. This made it seem like Michael was the older and wiser police detective who was more knowledgeable. This is typical of thrillers and for these reasons we felt Mike fitted this role perfectly.

Stephen Chinnadorai can be seen above. He was the murderer in our thriller. He is tall with dark features and we felt that this fitted the conventions of a killer perfectly. Killers typically wear black and dark colours as this connotations of the colour black are negative. As Stephen has dark features, this us enhanced. Furthermore, as Stephen is tall, it makes him seem more dominant and therefore Charlie seem more vulnerable.

Voice Overs:

Calum Bowen can be seen above. We chose Calum as Jack's boss. A lot of this was down to the fact that we only decided to add the part of a boss firing Jack in at the last minute. We chose Calum because his voice again sounds sympathetic and reluctant to let Jack go as well as sounding old enough to be the boss of the protagonist.

George Nicholls can be seen above. We chose him as our other voice over as George has a sympathetic voice that doesn't sound too young, so could fit the role of a police officer that has to deliver bad news to a family. The sympathy he expresses helps the audience to also feel more sympathetic towards the family of the dead girl.

Tilly Guess can be seen above. We chose Tilly to be the voice of the dead girl's room mate as her voice sounds like the voice of a teenager rather than a mother. Her experience of drama helped her to sound convincingly distressed which was perfect in making the audience feel disturbed at her room mates death.

Lauren Anthony can be seen above. Lauren had a voice that sounds more mature and therefore fitted the role of the mother perfectly. Furthermore, Lauren's previous experience with drama also enabled her to sound distressed and devastated at the news of her daughters death again giving the flashback a more sinister and engaging atmosphere.