Casting Research.

In our thriller sequence, there are two roles to be portrayed by two actors, they are; Rob Thompson an everyday run of the mill person, and a mysterious stranger. There are four of us in our group, we decided to take photos of ourselves to see who would the two available roles the best.

Daniel Enos; (Rob Thompson)

Daniel was quite an easy choice to portray the role of Rob Thompson. Daniel looks a lot older than he actually is and comes across as very innocent. Daniel will also be able to portray the role of Rob Thompson as best as possible due to his facial hair giving off a mature aura that the rest of us may not have been able to achieve. As Rob Thompson is supposed to seem overpowered by the 'Stranger' we needed someone who wasn't as tall or overbearing as the Stranger but who still looked strong and Daniel was the perfect choice for this.

Joe Sheehan; (Stranger)

The role of the Stranger was much harder to cast, as he will have a large part of his face covered by sunglasses, a hat and a scarf. We needed him to seem very powerful and ominous so we decided to go with Joe as he is the prime candidate to fill this role with a rugby player build. Joe was also chosen because of the brief fight scene in the clip, we wanted it to look like a struggle, and if he was to get into that struggle with Regan or Billy, the scene would not look as believe able.

Billy Murphy; (Unused onscreen, Cameraman, Director)

Sadly as there are only two parts to be cast in our sequence we chose not to use Billy to portray either characters as we believe that Daniel and Joe are the perfect choices to portray Rob Thompson and The Stranger.

Regan McSweeney; (Extra, Producer, Prop)

Once again, with Daniel and Joe being perfect options for our two characters there wasn't much that I could be casted in, in our preliminary script drafts we toyed with the idea of having me portray Rob Thompson's flatmate, although we ultimately removed this character as we felt he was unneeded and the dialogue was a bit forced.

Aaron Sheehan; (Unused)

We looked in to using Joe's brother Aaron to portray the stranger, he has the qualities to be able to portray him very well although, using him would have been very difficult due to time constraints and schedule clashes.