Target Audience

As a target audience for our filmsequence we thought of an audience of both genders and that the film would be for a big age range (16-50), as it is not a classical horror film, but more a psychological thriller, as it deals with psychological illness and challenges the institution of a "home for mental ill people". We also wanted to build upon the fact that you first just see a man throwing paper and then you see, that he is standing very high upon a roof and suddently jumps. So we wanted to shock the audience with that.



Distributor of our film

We tought of the dristibutor "Lionsgate", because it also supports smaller budget films (like ours is).

Location requirements:

We filmed at Hurtwood on top of the theatre, because there is a nice wall and a good view, and it looked really high. As main and only light source we used the sunlight and we were very lucky, because it was a nice day. We first thought of shooting at Ewhurst, because they have really nice corridors, but as we changed the idea and we did not need the corridors and stairs anymore, also you were not allowed to 'jump' of the roof or to get even up there. So our location was on top of the theatre and at the bottom of the theatre.


Cast

As cast we only needed one main person, a young man, who wants to end his life (that was the role he was meant to play)and jumps of a roof. We casted James Burke as the main guy and also we needed some statists that walk past the dead body and are looking shocked. For that we did cast: Charlotte Clark, Laura...
We did not encounter any problems nor have any difficulties with the cast and had a very good time.
Here are some pictures of the cast:


















Props and costumes

As props we had primarily our main prop, a dummy called "Billy" who we had to throw of the roof later. We made the dummy with an overall that we stuffed with newspaper, a pair of boots stapeled on it and a had out of styropor that we painted a face on and stapeled red hair (similar to James) on.
Apart from that, Lara made a sign with "Home for the mental ill" on it that we sicked next to the door of the theatre where we did throw Billy of the roof. Then we had a pack of papers with banknotes printed on them.
As costumes we had a blue jacket for James and Billy and jeans for them. We also needed fake blood for the "corpse".