Casting

During the creation process of our AS thriller opening sequence, we discovered that it was very difficult to gather people to act in our music video. Therefore, we had to resort to using people within our media class.

We encountered the same problem this year, as we could not gather any people external to our media class to be involved, as only minimal people showed interest. It was then found that these individuals were not able to adere to our filming schedule, so they had to be discounted from our selection.

We chose the cast of our video out of willing individuals in our media class. The roles and subsequent candidates are as follows:

Female Roles:

• Female protagonist
• Best friend/love interest

Candidates:

Name: Hannah Martin

Age: 17 

Role: Female protagonist

It was decided that Hannah would take on the role of the female protagonist, as she was the most comfortable in acting, due to her previous experience studying Drama, and performing in school productions. Hannah has good relationships with everyone in the media class, which meant that she would be able to work well with whoever we chose to co-star in the video with her. 

Name: Jade Dibble

Age: 17 

Role: Best friend/love interest

We thought that Jade would be most suitable for the role of the best friend/love interest, as she has also had previous acting experience, from her studies of drama. Jade also has a very close friendship with Hannah, which we hoped would contribute to ease of filming the more relationship orientated scenes.

Name: Caitlin Elward

Age: 17

Role: N/A

After consideration, Caitlin confessed that she did not feel that she would be entirely comfortable in front of the camera. This meant that she was not a suitable candidate to be cast in the video, as obviously, the foundation of the production is video based.

Name: Jasmine Greene

Age: 17

Role: N/A

We decided that I was more suited to roles behind the camera, as this is where I am most confident. As I have taken on the role of director, it would be difficult for me to fulfil this role effectively, whilst actually having to act in the piece.

Male Roles:

• The boyfriend

Candidates:

Name: Josh East
Age: 18
Role: The boyfriend (Actual)

Josh was not our original choice for the role of the boyfriend in our piece, as he has a lot of other commitments outside of school time. However, after discovering Rhys had broken his leg, Josh agreed to step in and help us with the video. We made an effort to work our filming schedule around Josh's other commitments, as he had volunteered to help us.

Name: Rhys Jones
Age: 18
Role: The boyfriend (Initial)

We chose Rhys to play the role of the boyfriend in our music video, as his schedule was more free to allow us to organising filming times well. However, Rhys was unable to fulfil his role in the music video, due to breaking his leg.