Cast and Characters

The actress playing Karen will be Emma Bailey. We decided on using Emma due to her having some past experience of being behind the camera, so Emma was confident enough to play the role of the woman. We decided to use someone inside our crew because it was much  more convenient for filming and Emma fits the role of  the blonde, fulfilling the feminine stereotype we were looking to broadcast with this character.

The actor playing Joe will be Sam Chadwick.  We have chosen him because he is a good friend to the group and has some experience in front of the camera.  Also, he is tall, which will add to the masculine character, thereby juxtaposing the ‘damsel in distress’ stereotype; the woman should be killed first, not the man.  We decided to choose Sam rather than one of the two boys on our team because neither of them was experienced or confident enough to act in our production, and it was a good opportunity for Sam to be in a film.

We won’t see the villain character, except for in shadow and silhouette form, so there is no actor for this part.  This is because we think that the ambiguity of the character will make them more threatening.