In depth explanation as to why I chose my actors.

I chose to use Molly Hemsley as she looks like a typical teenager girl. She has a vulnerable look to her due to her small stature, her blonde hair and her blue eyes. Also due to these features she has a vulnerable look about her, which works really well with this thriller genre as in the beginning she gets kidnapped. She is an aspiring actress, so was willing to take part in this media project and also we got some good acting skills in our opening which we might not of got if we got a random friend to take part for us. It is stereotypical for films to portray young girls as small, innocent and vulnerable, so I as a director would lead the audience into thinking that is what 'Hannah' is like as well, but, as a female director I would like to adapt this conventional thought and actually change this protagonist into a strong female instead of a vulnerable female that her image would suggest. I think that this would bring in more female audience viewers but possibly less male viewers which could pose a problem as our audience range is already very limited as it's a low budget, independent film so losing audience members could be fatal to the success of our film, but I think it's a risk i'm willing to take. There isn't many films who would choose to use actors of such low experience and young age as it's quite a risk as a high amount of audience actually view a film for well known actors so using all unknown actors is a massive risk, but because i'm not aiming for my film to be a mainstream film I do want it to be a small British independent film, so using unknown actors for me isn't a downfall to the film. Plus, well known famous actors is far out of my non-existent budget.