Casting our thriller: Part One.
When writing our groups thriller treatment, we were particularly inspired by the character 'Effy' from the British television programme 'Skins'.
Skins is a British teen drama that followed the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of sixth form. It was a very popular TV drama for teenagers, and Effy was a character that was idolised by many teen girls. Skins tackled teen issues such as substance abuse, mental illness and disfunctional families.
The character Effy was a mystery even to herself. Simular to our protagonist, she struggles with her mental health, smokes and has a cool dress sense. When casting our thriller we certainly had Effy in mind, we wanted our character to have a sense of mystery about her and therefore the actress would have to be able to portray that perfectly. We also liked Effy's dark hair and light eyes, so we also had that in mind.
As the character Effy was a very popular with young adults, which is our target audience, we thought that if we based our character around the character Effy we could attract that audience to our film.
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