Casting Decisions
Oscar Arkell 10
We chose to use a 10 year old boy to play the victim in our OTS as we felt that a child victim would be seen as more vulnerable. Females are seen to be more vulnerable, however, we chose not to use a girl as we wanted to challenge convention. Films like The Last Exorcism (2010), Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) and Orphan (2009) all use females as victims but we wanted to use a boy to show that all children can be vulnerable not just girls. We found this inspiration from films that do the same like The Babadook (2014). |
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