Planning - Actors, Props, Location & Equipment

Planning

Actors:

My short film opening only required a small cast of two people. This stared both gender roles which included a female protagonist and a male antagonist. The Choice of my actors were based upon stereotypes which we see in our daily life. Women are portrayed as the weaker sex and even though we see in the beginning of my opening  a male killer roles reverse as our vengeful protagonist hunts her attempted killer, oh and did I mention she wants revenge? Why I chose to mix up the gender roles and have a independent woman is due to two reason, one being my audience research, as they wanted to see a strong female protagonist and the other reason being I wanted to subvert stereotypes and show my audience how females should be represented in the 21st century.
The reason behind having a male antagonist is because it does conform to stereotypes we see as a modern day audience so it's a a familiar face.

Props:

Props used weren't excessive as the only main prop used was a knife as seen in the very beginning of my opening sequence. Costumes included a casual looking male antagonist dressed in jeans, T-shirt and vans, and a fierce looking female dressed in ripped jeans, distressed top covered in cuts and blood and a camo jacket which embraces how strong and independent she is due to the camouflage representing strength and war.

Location:

Three locations are used within my opening sequence as we see a suburban setting of a town house and the dark woods where our antagonist is traveling to his victims house. Why I used these two settings where simple as I wanted a familiar looking setting of the house and a suburban street so that the audience can get an idea of the setting and the type of person he is going to attempt to kill. The woods was chosen so that we could see the horror and mystery of whats about to happen.

Equipment:

The only equipment used within my two minute clip was a camera and nothing else, all hand held camera shots were used.