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Jasper Thomas - Costume Images

For the flashback of Jasper's arrest we would like him to look unprepared and make him seem as if he is a very normal and everyday boy. For this we would like him to wear casual simple everyday clothes e.g. jeans, top and a jumper or hoodie. For example: 

For the court scene, we want Jasper to look as if he has tried really really hard to make a good impression. Ideally we would like him to wear a simple suit (similar to the ones below) but more ill-fitting to look as if he doesn't dress up often.

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Character Costume - Jasper Thomas

In our opening sequence, we will mainly be seeing Jasper at the courthouse so for his costume, we want him to be dressed quite smartly in a suit to make him look like he's made a huge effort for it and so shows the audience that he considers the court case hugely important. We would also like to give the impression that he is making such a huge effort to make him seem innocent.

The only other time we see Jasper (if we choose to include this scene) is when there are flashback references to him being arrested from Ally's mind. For these shots, we would like Jasper to simply be wearing jeans and t-shirt as in the narrative, he will just be sitting at home with his family.

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Character Costume - Ally Quinn

For Ally's costume, we wanted quite standard, non-specific running gear that is of dark shades so she is highlighted against bright backgrounds. We didn't want her to look as if she goes running a lot (not wearing actual running gear) more as if she was running simply to be alone with her thoughts and so was wearing quite simple clothing that she had found in her cupboard.

Costume 2 - We would also like to show Ally getting ready for court/going to court. For her costume for that, we would like her to look smart and well dressed, wearing simple clothing such as a dress and suit jacket. Opposing to her running gear, we would like her to wear quite a bright dress to highlight that she is the most important person there.

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Character - Jasper Thomas

Character profile: Jasper Thomas

Jasper is a 23 year old man who lives at home, just finished university and has never committed a crime in his life. He is a very good person and has a loving relationship with his family and a great relationship with his friends. He would be the last person to commit a crime.

For our actor, we chose our friend Luke Forryan. We thought Luke would be suitable to play Jasper as he looks quite young and unthreatening and so it makes the audience question to whether he is actually guilty or not.

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Other actors influences: 

We chose Luke because of influences of other actors who we considered to look unthreatening and young. For example:

Jesse Eisenberg: 

JJ from 'Skins' (Ollie Barbieri):

Michael Cera:

Thriller Sequence - Narrative

Ally is on a run to forget her sorrows/reflect on what has happened and the day ahead of her. Throughout her run she is thinking back to when Jasper Thomas was arrested (unfairly?) with flashbacks of her watching him being arrested and taken into a car from his house, and she has a moment of reflection and stillness by the river. This shot is interrupted by a cut to her slamming the door in her house and beginning to get ready to go to court that day. We cut back and fourth to Jasper in back of car going through city towards court looking nervous and upset. Finally we show Ally arriving at court sitting in front of car with mother next to her driving. End with shot of Ally and Jasper sharing a look and then Jasper being violently ushered into court, with Ally taking a deep breath and following with mother.

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Character - Ally Quinn

We chose our friend Sabby to be our main character as she lives very near us which will make filming a lot easier for all of us and since the main part is quite a standard teenage girl, there were no specific requirements she had to fulfil. 

Character Profile: 

Ally Quinn is a 19 year old girl who just recently got out of school. She still lives with her parents. She has a close relationship with her parents, especially her mum but she can sometimes act uptight as if she is hiding something from them. Although she is a kind and friendly person, she also is quite fierce and brave. She also has an air of mystery and suspicion which may lead to suspicions over false accusation about Jasper. She doesn't do a lot of exercise generally but she enjoys running when her mind is preoccupied with other things and when she likes to get away from her family/home. 

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Location Photos

In half term, Bea and I went to Southbank to take photos for ideas of where we would ideally like to film the opening of our thriller. The main attraction of the Southbank Centre is that it has many different aspects to it which is what we really require as in the narrative of our thriller, our main girl will be going for an early morning run through the city and so Southbank will be able to provide many different backdrops. 

To make our main character stand out from the rest of the scene, we also wanted to incorporate lots of colour as our plan for the costume is going to be quite grey and dark. This makes the Southbank Centre perfect as it contains a number of bright colours in between buildings as well as quite drab, concrete buildings. 

A lot of the main colours come from stairways around different parts of the Centre, which I think is also very good as it means we can incorporate interesting shots using the height of the stairs.

We would also really like to incorporate shots of landmarks of London to make it clear of where the setting is and also to make our character seem quite detached from her surroundings.

The river is also going to be of huge use to us as we would like the surroundings of our character to be constantly moving so we would probably be filming on Saturdays at Southbank to include lots of people so it is very busy around her when she pauses from her run. 

We also took a number of pictures of grungier/bleaker areas of Southbank Centre as we would like it to look quite depressing to match the mood of our character.

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