Actors/Actresses and Costume

Due to the fact that we had originally planned to create a Bollywood thriller, we had chosen to use an Indians actress. However, we did not fulfill this desire but have chosen to keep our chosen actress for a number of reasons. 

Our chosen actress for our female protagonist is Cindy Sidhu. She is exactly what we've been looking for because we are searching to create a dark and sinister mood in the opening of our coursework therefore, we wanted to find someone with dark hair because we'll be using low-key lighting and this will make her face and tone of the opening, darker. 

 

Her costume shall consist of a darkly coloured shirt/top and a black leather skirt. We want the costume to be darkly coloured to add to the sinister tone, however we also want to portray our protagonist in a very feminine and stereotypical way. I feel the overall outfit achieves this and will give the exact representation we planned. Below are two pictures that give a rough idea of what our actress will be wearing and the photo on the right shows Cindy before we started filming. We decided to back comb her hair to give it a 'rougher' look and added to her eye make-up after this to make it darker and give her a more 'distressed' look. 

We have also cast a young Indian girl called Sharon in the lower part of the school to act as the our 'young protagonist' in the flashback scene. As well as Evelyn Stafford-Allen, a drama teacher at our school to act as our teacher in the flashback scene. The girl shall wear her school uniform and the teacher shall wear smart/casual clothing in order to keep verisimilitude within our opening.