G321: Planning

Ellie, Joe, Beth and Beth

Who and how we cast is extremely important to the success of our thriller and how effective and popular it is with our audience. In the following presentation I will explain who we ideally hope to play our characters.

Casting

For this role we were planning on casting an older male as our character is in the 30s age range. However, this has proven difficult as most people we know in this age range who are willing to act are either working or have other commitments.We have managed to cast Beth W’s older brother who is 18. Despite his age we are planning to make him look older with the magic of makeup and the fact that he is older than 6’4” makes him look older as well. As a group we agreed that we would have to go for late teens – early 20s year old men as the other age group was impossible. It is important that they look older though. Beth’s brother is willing to play this role and is contactable through Beth herself. He is also available within the times that we want to film.

Casting for The Detective

The actress we ideally want to play this role would be around 12 years old. We want the actress to look her age if not slightly younger. We wanted a slim petite build with long black hair. We have had to be flexible with this description as we know no one with long black hair and we’re not willing to buy a wig as a good quality one would be very expensive.We have decided to cast Joe’s younger sister for this role. She is 13 with blonde hair (hence the need to be flexible) and she fits our characters physical description. She has little commitments outside of school and would therefore be able to film at the required times.

Casting for Charlotte Adams

The casting for this character is probably the easiest of them all. This is due to the fact that their entire body and face will be covered. However, the difficulty is that all actors playing the part of the shade must be the same build/height. We can work around this as we can change the camera angles and add effects to disguise this difference.

Casting for The Shade

In order to make sure our casting choices are correct we have decided to hold a set of mini-auditions. As a result of these auditions, we will either agree that our original choice was correct or change our choice. If we only have one option in the first place ie. the actor for the role of our Detective, we will write a short scrip to make sure they are capable of what we want. We can either then mould the actor themselves into the character or try to find a different actor. Another important factor of all of our actors/actresses is to make sure that they are all free at the required times. If they aren’t free this could hold up the whole production.

How to make sure our casting choices are right.