The Actors

For our test shoot we used Bekah Murrell for the part of Samantha Harris, and Sian Parkinson as Karen Williams and they were both brilliant! They were very tolerant of the cold, uncomfortable environment and long filming hours. And Sian didn't even comlplain when we covered her in sticky fake blood.


Bekah is mixed race with dark afro style hair and she is about 5 foot 6. Her costume was jeans, boots, and plain black and white layered vest tops. We wanted the character to be wearing virtually no make up except for quite a lot of black eye liner under her eyes, which we purposly smudged so she looked rough. We chose Bekah to act because we knew that she does some professional acting work, so knew she would be good in this tricky role to play.

Sian has fair skin, fair blonde hair and is a similar height to Bekah. Her costume was a white shirt and black trousers to giver her character a proffesional look. Her make up was quite plain again, just a bit of mascara, which we smudged to make it seem like she had been crying. But then we did use make up to create a bruise on her forehead, as well as putting fake blood in her hair, to give the appearence she had been attacked, taking a big hit to her head. We thought this turned out well and did actually look very scary and very real. The pictures from our test shoot will be up soon, so you can see what you think...