. REASONS FOR CASTING

Dawn is playing the villain because of the experience she has from starring in our preliminary trailer and also our initial narritive, there she played a villain also. She has the ability to portray a character with violent characteristics well. Because of her experience with make-up in general, it wasn't hard for her to then apply her knowledge to the corpse inspired 'gory' make-up. Dawn took the initiative to even go to a party shop for the supplies that would ensure the look was perfect, for the few elements of the look she could not do she relied on tutorials and a friend who was able to ensure the wounds on her face looked realistic. As a group we knew that the role of Lillith had to be played by someone who could not only look the pat but play the part,  and it did help that Dawn had been watching make-up tutorials for years so it was better having someone who could easily follow directions on how to apply make-up and had experience of doing so. She even filmed herself putting on the make-up and edited in i-Movie as a time lapse.

Casting someone who could successfully portray the character of Lillith was important, we were able to cast Dawn because as I said before we have seen her execute a similar role previously. She is also in the group that I'm working in and she had the most appropriate timetable to then allow her film, especially when we all had the same free periods. It would've been harder to cast someone else as filming would revolve around their schedule and it may not be the same as ours. 

With the make-up on, Dawn is able to look scary and because she has long hair we were able to change or conceal her identity if necessary. We needed someone who we could easily access and Dawn was easy because she does Media and is in the same group as us. 

I was chosen to star in the trailer as Riley, the group originally had another person in mind but they were unavailable to film due to prior engagements with another subject. I had experience of acting in a previous AS music video, even though this role was very different I knew I was capable of successfully portraying the character of Riley. I followed the instructions of the group closely, ensuring I depicted the character appropriately and luckily the group were content with my choice of wardrobe. I naturally wear a lot of black, therefore connotations could be made that I was the villain due to the unconventional use of colours in my wardrobe. However as the trailer goes on you can see that I am in fact the victim and even though Dawn is seen wearing white, this is an example of Barthes 'binary opposition'.