casting Process/Image

When we were given the task of casting for our thriller we wanted to find 6 main cast memebers and the have about 25 extras for our background in the party scene to make it look authentic and realistic like a proper rave.

Firstly we wanted to find a girl who could be the lead singer of the band, as the song is quite dark and the theme of the video is dark we chose Holly Finlay to be our lead singer, She has dark hair and we beileve we can make her up as a rock chic to good effect.

This is the type of image where going for holly as it is edgy and call and llinks into the genre of the music as it would appeal to the audience who are a fan of dance/ rock music. Also there is a bit of flesh of showing therefore this would add a sex attraction so we needed someone who could pull it off and we beileved holly would fit the role perfectly.


For our band we wanted a group of boys to support holly as the main girl as this give us a unqiue element to the band and therefore appeals to the audience. For our group of boys we wanted them to have an edge and we can dress them in rock outfits for them to look cool and young and virbant like our target audience, in the end we choose Hector, Walter, Otto and will bodner who we beileve have the right look and attitude for the role. This will appeal to the audience as they will fit into the type of music that that genreation listens to.

This is the sort of image were going for they look threatening and edgy and arent the typical boys in a band as offer a lot darker feel to the video and a rebelious streak which is inside many teenages and our target audience who tend to listen to this kind of music are useally reblious teens are therefore if the band look like they conform to this ideology then the audience will buy there music as they feel they relate to it. So the guys will pick we beileve can pull this as they all have a bad boy attitude so therefore they are apportaite to play the role.

After spending some time looking at different costumes and images i decide to create a image around the headshot of my band therefore i could get a good indication of how they would look on the shoot, After seeing this i decided to make the image of the band alot darker as therefore they would look more edgy and rebilious. So doing gave me a good example of how i could style my group.