Characters & Casting Considerations

Guy Mckenzie
In my extensive research on Noir I found that Guy is a name used frequently as it suggests little about the character, the protagonist is the one in the screen play who all the other characters do not fit in with. My character will be based on Axeley from a recent Neo Noir film: L.A Confidential 1997. He will not fit in with the rest of the characters, he is a bit of a geek and applies by the rules, in the flashback we see a different side to him, however, in the pub, we see him ask for a martini which shocks the bar tender.
Guy will wear a suit, with slick back hair and glasses.
Guy will be played by Steven Mars.

Ed Exceley
Grey suit, slick back hair, black wide frame glasses.
The character is established through my next scene as a police officer, and therefore has to be wearing this suit so that the audience are aware of what his purpose is. 
His hair will be gelled back using hair gel,  my design of this character has come from watching L.A Confidential.
Although I have designed my character to look like Guy McKenzie, he has a very outgoing and overly confident personality, leading to him getting hated by the gang on district 12. Taking ideas from Chinatown, I have chosen to make him look vulrnable, i.e. getting attacked in the first few shots, meaning he will be wearing a bandage on his face.





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Chosen Cast Main Character

I have chosen to use this as my character because I feel that he portrays the 'Guy Pearce' style appeal that I have chosen to use.
In order to get my character to look in the appeal, I got him to wear a suit, slick back hair + makeup to clear any imperfections.









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Consideration Number 1:



I did not use my first consideration due to the colour of his hair. Although something so little, when doing research into characters, it is much more widely known that darker hair is known when having confident and loud characters. An example of this would be the characters played by Robert Downey Junior.









Casting Considerations 2:

I did not use this consideration due to colliding planning schedules. He was unable to make the shooting schedule I had to prepare and therefore I had to form a contingency plan.











Casting Consideration 3:



I decided not to use Blue in my filming due to the same reason as number 1; hair colour but also because of his childlike face. When looking at Blue, I didn't feel like an audience would be intimidated by his stature.