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SMC Productions

Casting Notes

For The Full Movie:   Scarlett Cole

                                         Tommy Cole (not actually shown)

                                         Florence Cole

Scarlett Cole: Comfort Gathoni 

This is our main character. The audience will view this character, first of all, when she is 16 and pregnant. She will be the mother of Raymond, the child who will haunt her in her dreams as she believes he is dead; she later then meets him in the orphanage, without knowing its her actual son. This will create a dramatic irony as the audience will be aware its her son but she wont.

Scarlett's character is very vulrable, but tries to keep peace with her evil mother, she is sweet and still very innocent and wants to do the best for her child. We want the audience to really emphasise with her. Playing this character will be Comfort Gathoni.

The main reason why we selected Comfort Gathoni is because she’s a drama student. I am also a drama student so i've been able to see her work of acting, which is very effective. She will be able to do this role because she has done roles like this in drama productions before hand. She is very good at what she does and she will be able to get the characterisation of the character, Scarlett.

Florence cole: Jessica Ansah

This is another main character in this film. This is Scarlett Cole’s mother. If Scarlett Cole was the protagonist, Florence Cole would be the antagonist. She did not approve of Scarlett’s decision to keep her baby when she found out she was pregnant as she has a very old fashioned mind set of teenage pregnancies. She is the one who mysteriously tells her daughter that her baby is dead.

Florence's character is very evil, she is old fashioned so when she found out her daughter was pregnant she was very ashamed as she felt her family would be look upon. Jessica Ansah will be playing the role of Florence Cole.

The reason why we have selected Jessica Ansah is because she is also a drama student and is capable of doing the role of an old woman,  as she has taken roles like this in the past. She has had the potential to do any of these roles before hand.

inspiration films for our thriller movie.

we looked at 'The Others' as the woman in this film is unstable likewise our character Scarlett.
this film also has a supernatural element which is what we are going for in our movie. With the haunting of something which we are showing in our opening inspired me, to think how we should show this

Looking at the movie 'The Unborn' gave me the inspiration of our film; this has many elements which we would want to interpret in our opening. As this gives a supernatural thrill and has a daunting son likewise what happens in our film script. With the anticipation and tension within the music is what we would want for ours to give that suspicion thrill to it.

Inspiration for our score for different scenes.

This sound inspires our score as it represents for when the girl Scarlett awaits for her pregnacy test and comes to realisation that she is pregnant.

This sound represents when the mum goes in to the girls room and takes she takes the baby

The uses of the heart beat sound indicates the opening scene when the mother finds out the daugher is pregnant.

The use of the baby crying noise represents the final scene when the daughter is in the babies room and can hear noises as the supernatural starts

The Unspoken Truth (Shooting Script)

This shooting script shows the audience of what we are going to do in the two minutes opening at particular times.

Doing this was very helpful as it helped reinforce what my group will be doing at certain scenes and what type of scene we would be doing.