Our original ideas for characters in our crime thriller was a mother, a daughter, grandmother, detective in our production. We decided to cast one of our main characters as a little (5) blonde girl as this would be best for a 'daughter' role. The grandmother was decided to be an older, elegant lady with a wise tone to her character. For the detective we wanted a stern, smart, patriarchal man with a big physical build.
During planning we had an idea to cast our mother as a 'teen mum' to best relate to the target audience we intended of 15- 35 year olds. By changing this role we are able to back up our storyline of a mother loosing her child by blaming the mistake on maturity and her being young and irresponsible. Another positive of this character choice is that Alissa (or Sarah in our production) has a little sister age 5 who is happy to be filmed alongside Alissa and play the role of the daughter. This way both actors will be comfortable filming with each other).
We understand this may appear unrealistic to audience members who see a young girl playing the role of a mother so we decided to include shots, voice clips and edits to ensue this was communicate more clearly to the audience. These include voice clips of voices in her head saying "what did you expect" "I told you you were too young" etc.
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