The Forest of Fate - Indie youth film project

Project Overview

The Forest of Fate is an independent, horror film project that follows five people trapped in a forest. Secrets and blood will both be spilt.

Abigail Thompson - lead
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Abigail Thompson - lead
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★ Name ↣ Abigail Thompson 

★ Age ↣ 17

★ Pronouns ↣ she/her

★ Gender ↣ female

★ Romantic Orientation ↣ lesbian 

★ Sexual Orientation ↣ bisexual 

★ Polyamorous or Monogamous ↣ monogamous 

★ Species ↣ human

★ Ethnicity ↣ welsh 

★ Nationality ↣ welsh 

★ Description of Appearance ↣ long hair, short, scarred face (not key to casting)

★ Parent(s) ↣ Peter Thompson and Dominic Thompson (adopted) 

★ Sibling(s) ↣  none 

★ Pet(s) ↣ a cat named Alpine 

★ Friend(s) ↣ they’re all dead.

★ Enemy(ies) ↣ the cult. 

★ Ex(es) ↣ dead. 

★ Love Interest(s) ↣ none 

★ Backstory ↣ she had stumbled into the cult before. They trapped her before and slowly killed off all of her friends. They had tried to kill her two but she survived, just. 

★ Positive Traits ↣ loyal, generous 

★ Negative Traits ↣ traumatised, paranoid 

★ Aspirations ↣ she wants to be a famous artist one day. 

★ Taste in Music ↣ Mitski, Sabrina carpenter, hozier

★ Hobbies ↣ surrealist artist

★ Talents ↣ an incredibly talented artist 

★ Color ↣ baby pink

Language:
  • english
Voice description:
  • female young adult
  • No, no, but listen. I’m choosing to go. Choosing to listen to them, to whatever they want. And yet I’m still scared. What if it doesn’t work? What if it hurts? What if-

  • I- I read somewhere…that when you’re dying and it’s nearly time up…it stops hurting

  • It’s my fault we’re here. I’ll explain in a second but we have to run.

John Baker - lead
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John Baker - lead
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★ Name ↣ John (Johnny) baker 

★ Age ↣ 18

★ Pronouns ↣ he/him

★ Gender ↣ male 

★ Romantic Orientation ↣ pan

★ Sexual Orientation ↣ pan 

★ Polyamorous or Monogamous ↣ poly 

★ Species ↣ human 

★ Ethnicity ↣ British 

★ Nationality ↣ British 

★ Description of Appearance ↣ taller with short hair 

★ Parent(s) ↣ abandoned as a baby 

★ Sibling(s) ↣  no 

★ Pet(s) ↣ technically, made friends with a crow he named kaia, back at his home 

★ Friend(s) ↣ random acquaintances, but friendly, he can make distrust and very easily play both sides of a friend group 

★ Enemy(ies) ↣ a couple thugs 

★ Ex(es) ↣ 4, nothing much to speak of, but he doesn’t talk to them but will mumble their names if someone does something like them in conversation 

★ Love Interest(s) ↣ none currently 

★ Backstory ↣ his parents abandoned him on the steps of a church as a baby, the church didn’t take him in and he foster home hopped until he found the bakers (who are ironically, bakers.) and made friends with the crow 

★ Positive Traits ↣ calm, logical, knows survival tips from running away from foster homes 

★ Negative Traits ↣ really good double agent, sly, often frustrated when people are stupid. 

★ Aspirations ↣ he wants to run his own bakery like his foster parents 

★ Taste in Music ↣ hozier, Alex warren, sleeptoken 

★ Hobbies ↣ baking, singing, camping 

★ Talents ↣ baking, survival, fishing/foraging 

★ Color ↣ electric blue

Voice description:
  • male young adult
  • You’re a prick. You know that right?

  • It’s okay. It’s okay. It doesn’t hurt, you’ll be okay, those friends…you’re gonna see them again soon, yeah? I’ll take care of the others. You go find them.

  • [cold, no emotion] I know.

Arrow Miller - lead
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Arrow Miller - lead
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★ Name ↣ arrow miller 

★ Age ↣ 19

★ Pronouns ↣ they/them 

★ Gender ↣ fluid 

★ Romantic Orientation ↣ panromantic

★ Sexual Orientation ↣ asexual 

★ Polyamorous or Monogamous ↣ nah. 

★ Species ↣ human 

★ Ethnicity ↣ English 

★ Nationality ↣ british 

★ Description of Appearance ↣ average height, very flexible appearance wise, dark hair, pale

★ Parent(s) ↣ lani and Jacob miller, married couple 

★ Sibling(s) ↣  two younger sisters (4&5) 

★ Pet(s) ↣ border collie named winston and a tank of identical fish named eenie meenie miney and moe

★ Friend(s) ↣ homeschooled and mainly made friends online so they are a little awakened at first but when they get comfortable really open up to the group they are around 

★ Enemy(ies) ↣ a school bully named Natalie and her brother Harold 

★ Ex(es) ↣ one toxic ex, Kelsey 

★ Love Interest(s) ↣ no 

★ Backstory ↣ grew up in the country to wealthier parents, not rich but wealthy enough, they were taught everything by their father, their mother mostly working so they have a much better relationship with their father and he is the one who supported their gender identity first. 

★ Positive Traits ↣ makes fast choices in an emergency, knows first aid, weirdly good at climbing trees.

★ Negative Traits ↣ quiet, overthinker, panicky if let think for too long 

★ Aspirations ↣ they want to one day go to New York City and visit Times Square 

★ Taste in Music ↣ Lofi, sleeping at last and front bottoms 

★ Hobbies ↣ pottery and sewing 

★ Talents ↣ weirdly good at climbing trees. 

★ Color ↣ metallic blood red.

  • Ohhhh. Snack guy. I like you.

  • Who are you? What do you know?? Was this all some twisted fucking scheme to do the same to us??

  • I don’t know John. What did one strawberry say to the other?

Talia Carmicheal - lead
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Talia Carmicheal - lead
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•    Name: Talia Carmichael 

•   17

•    Pronouns: she/they/he

•    Gender: genderfluid 

•    Sexual orientation: pansexual 

•    Polyamorous/monogamous:  monogamous 

•    Species: human 

•    Ethnicity: Norwegian 

•    Nationality: English 

•    Description of appearance: 5’2, short ginger hair, slightly curly hair, I’m not good at this, pale skin, skinny but healthy, pretty toned 

•    Parents: Alex Carmichael and Audrey 

•    Siblings: only child 

•    Pets: a Australian sheepdog named God after a typo on its adoption papers, a rabbit named William after her grandfather 

•    Friends: only friends with the people in the oneshot as she was homeschooled so didn’t have much time to socialise

•    Enemies: this one bitch named Jessica 

•    Exes: she dated a few people but not seriously, she doesn’t really think of them as exes because she didn’t have any feelings for them and only went into the relationship because she felt pressured to

•    Love interest: none 

•    Backstory: grew up in a pretty rich household and was homeschooled fe to her parents not liking the school system and how it worked. This led to her not being very good at socialising until she met her current group of friends who she adores. 

•    Positive traits: kind, generous 

•    Negative traits: a bit too generous (yo the point where many people have tried to take advantage of her) and very energetic at times (which can be quite a lot for some people)

•    Aspirations: complete the goal her family wants and take over the family company

•    Music: Chappell, Mitski, Johnny Cash

  • It wasn’t all pretty pink ponies you know! Sometimes I had to ask for things!

  • Thank you for this Abigail…I’ll make sure you aren’t forgotten

  • I don’t know! Sure we’re all connected to my dad’s company but that has nothing to do with it!

Logan fowler - lead
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Logan fowler - lead
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★ Name ↣ Logan Fowler

★ Age ↣ 19

★ Pronouns ↣ he/him

★ Gender ↣ male

★ Romantic Orientation ↣ bi

★ Sexual Orientation ↣ bi

★ Polyamorous or Monogamous ↣ polyamorous

★ Species ↣ human

★ Ethnicity ↣ English 

★ Nationality ↣ English 

★ Description of Appearance ↣ tall, skinny, dark hair, dark eyes

★ Parent(s) ↣ single mother named Francine 

★ Sibling(s) ↣  two brothers named Oliver and John, he is the middle child 

★ Pet(s) ↣ no pets

★ Friend(s) ↣ he tends to stay hidden away from people, not too keen on friends or enemies. The only people he tends to socialise with are his family and that’s forced. 

★ Enemy(ies) ↣ same applies as the above 

★ Ex(es) ↣ has had no prior relationships 

★ Love Interest(s) ↣ he has a mild crush on a boy named Andrew 

★ Backstory ↣ he worked as early as he could to aid his mother, his school work suffered lightly due to this but not much. He dreams of being a lawyer one day. 

★ Positive Traits ↣ loyal, trustworthy 

★ Negative Traits ↣ quick to anger, not great at socialising 

★ Aspirations ↣ dreams of being a successful lawyer 

★ Taste in Music ↣ classic rock, country 

★ Hobbies ↣ reading, history and playing guitar

★ Talents ↣ good at guitar, singing and story telling on the spot 

★ Color ↣ deep purple

  • Leave her the fuck alone! She doesn’t know what’s going on! None of us do!

  • Magic. A magic forest. Are you right in the head?

  • John! Get your hands off her! Oh…shit sorry mate

Arthur (Merlin) Christie
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Arthur (Merlin) Christie
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Name: Arthur Christie 

Age: 15

Pronouns: he/they

Sexuality: straight 

Backstory: Lives with his mother and father, his father is an alcoholic who frequently forced Arthur to harm others

Extra: hates physical contact, quiet and reserved until he needs to be louder, rough around the edges but can be an absolute sweetheart, dating Sarah 

Appearance: mid sized, average height, awkward smile

  • We should be here. It’s basically a death sentence.

  • [struggling] ABIGAIL RUN

  • The Evocator welcomes all.

Sarah Smith
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Sarah Smith
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Name: Sarah Smith 

Age: 16

Pronouns: she/her

Sexuality: pan 

Backstory: no trauma, happy family 

Extra: sunshine character 

Appearance: blonde, short ish

  • Arthur he’s…he’s my light, my world. I don’t know what I would do without him.

  • The meadow is calm this time of night, maybe we should me go there instead Abigail…?

  • ARTHUR! ARTHUR WHERE ARE YOU?!

Ripley Sweeting
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Ripley Sweeting
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Name: Ripley Sweeting

Age: 16

Pronouns: she/they

Sexuality: aroace

Backstory: Ripley was taken in by Shane’s family after hers kicked her out after she came out to them. They’re exceptionally close in a sibling way. 

Extra: volunteers at a charity shop on the weekends 

Appearance: shorter, freckles

  • Are you sure they won’t mind…100%?

  • Shane? How- how bad is it??

  • Shane! Stop being a prick! This is serious shit!

Shane Danvers
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Shane Danvers
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Name: Shane Danvers

Age: 17

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: gay

Backstory: his family took in Ripley after she came out and got kicked out, he loves his parents and his family.

Extra: caring and passionate, terrified of being abandoned and letting people down

Appearance: black hair, taller

  • It’s terrible. Some may even say atrocious.

  • Stone piles? Are you joking Arthur? That shit means nothing.

  • Awh c’mon! Nothing bad will happen!

Video Editor
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Video Editor
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We need someone capable of editing a film project, featuring music and some basic special effects 

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Musician
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Musician
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We need eerie, horror typical music to play in the background of scenes 

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