This should have probably been posted earlier, but we casted our actor (as you could see)! My older brother, Robert Thomas, agreed to fill the role of our main character, Lionel. We felt that he would be a good fit for the role due to his stoic nature, which is very akin to the desired personality and feel of the main character in our title sequence.
Our protagonist, Lionel, is a young man who has become stripped of his memories and emotions from the head trauma that he has supposedly experienced. He is cold and generally unfeeling at the time of the opening as he tries to remember what occurred and what keeps haunting him.
We felt that my brother, whose general disposition is stolid, would fit this role perfectly, as he could achieve this affect within his features without having to focus on it. And since we don’t have A-grade actors at our disposal, we thought “the more similar the character’s personality is to the actor, the better.”
In addition, we casted our own cinematographer and group member, Katelyn Wagner, as the mysterious female figure who haunts Lionel in the opening sequence. She can be seen in the picture above. We do have another female in our group who could play the part, but she’s a bit more vertically challenged than Katelyn (sorry, not sorry Bianca).
Not only was Bianca not as comfortable with portraying this role, but Katelyn’s height was seen as a large positive for the role. Having a tall figure looming behind the main character will most likely have a greater effect on the audience than a shorter figure (again – sorry, not sorry Bianca).
Anyway, we thought that Katelyn was great for the role as well and would act it well. As the director and scriptwriter, it’s was my job to present the motives and personalities of the characters to the actors to help them best embody these fictional characters.
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