Casting, Representation and Costumes

We have chosen our actors for each role for specific reasons, as we feel they fit in with the ideal characters and ideas that we want to portray.

Liam as 'Laptop Guy'

We feel Liam suits this role as his long hair, styled the way is is suits the stereotype of a typical gamer. He will wear a beanie, checkered shirt and glasses while we film to again reinforce this kind of stereotype. It will represent gamers in quite a neutral way, as we could use a overweight character who is greasy and doesn't care for themself, but instead we have gone for quite an indie look as we already have a greasy character and don't want to represent gamers in a negative way. We have chosen to represent gamers in a neutral way as it isn't what we want the audience to pay particular attention to, we are more focused on his teenage demographic and have only included a gamer so the gamers in the audience can relate the character, allowing the short film to deliver a more powerful message.

Felix as 'TV Guy'

Felix suits our idea for the TV Guy due to his great acting. We wanted our main character to be an effective actor as body language for this role is vital as we wanted to connote and portray a lazy character. Through his character we are mainly representing older, male teens in a negative way. We are suggesting that they are lazy and just sit in the dark all day, looking at screen. The representation of teenagers is vital to our piece.
Felix's character is wearing his costume in the photo above, minus the beanie. By wearing a bland, unbranded tracksuit, it connotes him to be lazy and sluggish as we present his character and age range to be lazy, which reflects onto the technology he is using as his negative characteristics are at fault of the technology.

Chloe as 'Phone Girl'

My sister suits this role as she looks like a stereotypical blonde girl. She has a small frame, blonde hair and is also very adept at acting. Through her we are representing older, female teens. They are recieving a stereotypically negative representation, with them being obsessed with their image and glued to their phones.
Unfortunatley, I haven't gained permission from my sister to use her image on my blog, however she is ok to be in our film. Her character will be wearing a white, sleeveless shirt and ripped jeans. Her phone will be a white iPhone as that is the most common phone owned by young people. The costume is not intended to have any deeper meaning, it will be used to reinforce her representation as a stereotypical teenage girl.

None of our characters are from older generations as our primay audience is teenagers. By using characters of a similar age, it means the films message will be more relatable and easier to understand for that demographic.