Film Actors and Costume

Since the theme of the film was thriller we wanted one of our actors to play as a mad scientist. So I researched this in more detail.

Mad scientist -A mad scientist is a stock character of popular fiction, specifically science fiction the mad scientist may be villainous or antagonistic, benign or neutral, and whether insane, eccentric, or simply bumbling, mad scientists often work with fictional technology in order to forward their schemes.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_scientist

From reading this I had to make sure that the actor was able to play the role of the mad scientist otherwise it would not have gone well. I researched different scientists / mad scientists to get a better picture; women and men.

The Nutty Professor - At the fictional Wellman College, thousands of hamsters are overrunning the entire campus, causing general chaos. This is due to Professor Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) accidentally releasing them by grazing the switch that opens the hamster’s cages. Meanwhile, Sherman has constructed an experimental formula that reconstructs the DNA of an obese person in a way that will allow them to lose weight more easily.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutty_Professor_(1996_film)#Plot

I have not watched this film before, neither have I watched the original but a member of staff from school has watched it and she told me about the professor in this film. ’Sherman Klump was a friendly, scatter brained overweight college professor, who was made fun of by students and staff’.  After being told this I realised this was not the right kind of mad scientist that I wanted, Sherman Klump was humorous and a figure of fun. We wanted a more sinister and evil character.

Albert Einstein - was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, affecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”. The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

Even though Albert Einstein isn’t a movie or has been in a movie we can still get inspiration from the way he looks. When he was young he looked like any normal scientist but when he got older he looked like a mad scientist and this is what we needed. What really makes Einstein look mad is the hair, this is because it’s sticking up and it’s not usual to normal life. Still not the kind we wanted even though the appearance is good.

Also with our Scientist we decided to have a woman to play the act. One of the reasons of this was because it would have created many enigmas; this would have been surprising to the audience to see a woman.  Our main inspiration for this was from the film Kill Bill vol 1.

 Kill Bill vol 1 - The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/

The main character in Kill Bill is a woman and she is seeking revenge; we got a big inspiration from this because of the way that the woman is the main character. Also because she is a woman, girls would be able to relate to her better. 

From this we knew what our scientist had to look along these lines.

We also wanted a protagonist who could relate to our target audience. We wanted someone who is a young male because our main target audience is teenage boys and we wanted them to relate with this character as he will be young, also teenage girls may relate to this character because  since he shall be young he should look good and girls seem to like young men in films. Here are some young males in films who are very popular:

Zac Efron - is an American actor. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s and became known with his lead roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, the WB series Summerland, and the 2007 film version of the Broadway musical Hairspray. Efron has since starred in the films 17 Again, Me and Orson Welles, Charlie St. Cloud, and New Year's Eve, and is due to star in The Lucky One.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zac_efron
I have seen Zac Efron in the film High School Musical while at the cinema. Every single time he appeared the girls in the cinema would scream as if he was actually there. So to attract the female audience I realise that we need someone that girls would be attracted to. Also, it may have attracted boys because since he gets the ‘ladies’ boys may get an inspiration from him.

Taylor Lautner - is an American actor, voice actor, model, and martial artist. After as a child Lautner soon thereafter began his acting career, appearing in bit roles in comedy series such as The Bernie Mac Show (2003) and My Wife and Kids (2004), before having voice roles in television series like What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2005) and Danny Phantom (2005). In 2005, he appeared in the film Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and starred in The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D. Lautner got his big break when he was cast as Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga film series, beginning with the first film, Twilight (2008). Lautner returned for the following two movies, The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) and is set to appear in the final film of the series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 in late 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Lautner

Unfortunately I have seen Twilight, which means I have seen Taylor Lautner. Again it’s the same as Efron all the girls in the cinema just go crazy when they see him (especially when he takes his shirt off).

(I didn’t film this but by watching it, it shows you how crazy girls go when seeing a young male)

So from this I knew what type of person we needed to attract the opposite sex.

These are all the characters needed for our title sequence. I now have a better insight of what our characters should look like.

These are the characters we used for our sequence.

This is our scientist.

And this was our protagonist.