Thriller Planning: The Cast

We need four actors to play in our thriller opening, and they would be playing the roles of Patrick Callaghan, Aidan Quinlan, Sean McLennan and Connor Malone. In order to gain members of cast, we used a conveniance sampling technique, as we felt it best to use people we know and this way we could quickly and easily hand pick the four actors we wanted. As the characters in our thriller opening are threatening men, we thought it best to pick actors that fit this appearance and also age group. The latter applies especially to the character of Patrick Callaghan, as he is an aged crime leader, so we have to have an actor that appears believable under that description (see character profiles for more details). These are the four actors that we acquired:

Philip Buttinger as Patrick Callaghan

We feel that this actor matches the age group and also the appearance of the character we were looking for, as he as quite prominant eye brows which make for a threatening stare, this will be effective in our ECU shot of his eyes (see storyboard).

Leon Hogarth as Aidan Quinlan

Again, we feel that this actor matches, in particular the age group of the character. He also fits the appearance as he is very tall (which you can't tell from this picture) and also quite-well built which makes for a threatening figure.

Patrick Bloomfield as Sean McLennan

Ralf Kendall as Connor Malone

For the actors of the characters of Sean McLennan and Connor Malone, the facial appearances weren't crucial as these are quite marginal characters and their faces aren't focused on in any shot, so for these actors it was more important that they fitted the age group, which we feel that these two do so well.

However, unfortunately certain rules and regulations which we were not aware of meant that Patrick Bloomfield and Ralf Kendall were forced to pull out as our actors. We tried our best to replace them with actors of a similar quality and age group, however due to time running out we couldn't allow ourselves to be too picky. These are the two actors we replaced them with:

Josh Rowe as Sean McLennan

Louis Martin

We picked these two as our replacements because, although students, they are both fairly tall (Josh Rowe in particular) and also have quite mature faces compared to other options.