- Did you base your characters/music star on other film/music characters? Why?
For our characters, we used the members of our group because we then knew we wouldn't have to rely on anyone else to help us film and also because we had all planned the film together and knew exactly what we wanted to happen within the film so we just made ourselves the characters as we knew we could rely on each other. We decided that Tommy should play our killer because he was able to play the part best out of both the boys and that then meant that Brandon was better suited to play the groom in our film. We then also decided that Emily was going to play the bride and murdered victim because she was better at being able to be the stalker and look like she was dead with all her make-up and everything on. 
Our inspiration came from the film The Woman in Black and the way they played it out. We based our characters on various different characters, we based Emily's character (the dead bride) a little on the Woman in Black and how she would be placed in the corner of the camera looking all scary and mysterious and then able to make others feel uncomfortable while she was just stood there. When we filmed our film, we used the same kind of camera angles as the Woman in Black by having Emily stood in the distance - making it a long shot of her - and then having the people she was targeting in the main view of the camera. When we were thinking of inspiration, we also thought of the title sequence from 'The Conjuring' as they used loads of different pictures at the beginning, we as a group, then decided to do the same kind of thing with our film as we then decided to use pictures from a relationship which was between two of the characters over the years since the murder had happened.
When we were thinking of stereotypes, we thought of a typical bride wearing a white dress - to show the traditional values of a white wedding with a bride who was meant to look all pure and innocent, Emily matched this stereotype with the way she did her make-up and hair as it made her look like a young and innocent girl who was really pure. . For Brandon's character, he matched the stereotypical views of a groom because he was dressed up in a black suit which made him look smart and ready to be married to someone.
When thinking about our inspiration of 'The Woman in Black' we based Emily's character vaguely on the Woman in Black, especially with the stalking scenes and making her look dead and the memorable scene at the end of both 'The Woman in Black' and 'The Woman in White' with both dead women putting their faces up to the screen to end the film. We also used the a theme within our film, in 'The Woman in Black' the theme of revenge and vengeance was used and within our film we used the theme of revenge for our dead women to try and get revenge on both her killers. We did this because we wanted both some similarities and differences between our characters within our film.
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