Actors Deconstruction

Actors 

For our opening scene of the movie, we decided to include a minimum of 2 actors; one of which will be the protagonist and the antagonist. The protagonist will get the most screen time, as expected and the antagonist is actually really only there to show a hardship in the life of a homeless person, he is not a character with depth or insight. In the beginning of our social realism film, very little to no diegetic dialogue will be present. This is because our actors are not professional, and so the quality of acting will be lowered the moment they begin to speak.
Since our film uses a young actor as the homeless person, we decided to use Emma, a 16/17 year old as our choice. This is because as she is on the team, she is reliable and so we don't have to worry about if she won't be available to shoot, also by using a young character as our protagonist we wanted her to look very vulnerable and we can achieve this by using a female actor. Our second actor is Angel, a 17 year old as the antagonist, he is mostly going to be seen doing either of the two: calling her a scum, or stealing her prized possession, her locket. Angel is going to be depicted as kind of a non-likeable character, as he is going to be the problem for our main character. His appearance is going to be normal, too show that he is relatable to everyone and that his actions represent the majority of what people would do.

To achieve a look of homelessness to our actor, we wan't to apply some makeup which adds the look of dirt to her face, our actor is also not going to wash her hair for 3 days prior to the shooting to add realism. Her clothes are also going to be ragged, distressed and torn to show that it's not a recent thing, but her situation has spanned over a lengthly period of time. We have also thought about brining in a wider range of actors because we wish for there to be groups of people laughing and having a good time to emphaisese the islolation of our protagonist. However do not know whether we should go with this due to the limitiations of having too many actors, e.g. them not having time to film and transport, we have to outweigh the benefits with the negatives.

In conclusion, by keeping the number of actors to a minium we increase the chances of reliablity and can have more time to film incase we need to reshoot anything, it will be easier to decide on a time which works for everyone. With the use of speical make-up and other techniques we can achieve a realistic homeless look to ensure it looks as professional as possible.