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Matt Bassington (Alexander lachance)

Adam Batchelor (Charlie Adams)

George Carey (Tyler)

Sam Heaney (Danny)

Brad Johnson (Tracy)

Zachary Stephens (Mr Mcguiness)

We tuned our various talents to fit certain characters or roles within the piece of

Media we are creating, for example as Brad is an art student he is drawing the

story board and Joey took btec Media and seems to be the most competent with

the camera so he is going to be filming the vast majority of it as I am taking A

level drama I am going to be acting we tried to find actors that would suit the

characters here is an outline of the reasons our characters are being played by

these particular actors.

Matt Bassington

I am playing the main character of this story who is a massive nerd now I have

played a variety of different roles and can integrate smoothly into any character

as long as I know their motives and the background of the character as I was the

person who wrote the script this meant I could effectively play a character

because I understood their motives as I was the person who created them and

the reason why the character needed them.

Adam Batchelor

Adam took GCSE drama which means he has a lot of experience getting into rolesand acting them out effectively we also realized fairly early on while working

with him that Adam himself is a stereotype and quite eagerly expresses that he is

in fact Adam in some ways is quite similar to the character he is playing so it

would be more natural if Adam played him.

George Carey

George is an extremely talented actor and can pull of a hilarious northern accent,

which is exactly the kind of mimicry childish humor we are looking for to

appease our audience. He can act very masculine and aggressive which suits the

bully role quite well but at the same time his sarcastic observation we have seen

him use in some of the short videos we have seen him in are quite funny and

have added something to the piece and we need actors that make the roles their

own so I thought he would suit the part perfectly

Sam Heaney

Also took A level drama he is also an incredibly talented actor and has shown

significant merit in other productions he has acted in at the same time having

known Sam for a long time I know his style of humor and I felt that he would be

able to help make our comedy funny which is key towards making any form ofcomedic Media.

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Brad Johnson

While he doesn't have much experience acting he does have a certain voice that

he can use that pulls of the childish humor effectively this was shown by our

preliminary where Brad plays a character and used that voice in our titlesequence we are going to be using a similar character where Brad will behave

and act similarly to the character as he did in the prelim. People found this

character immensely funny and I felt that is salvaged our prelim and made it

funny and humor is something we desperately need if we are going to make this

title sequence work within our selected genre.

Zachary Stephens

Zac is a character himself and is generally an extremely funny guy so far I have

yet to see another actor that can pull of his unique sense of humor as effectively

as he does. But more importantly he can pull of an Irish accent, which is what we

are using for the Mr McGuiness character, and we felt adding in something a bit

different like an accent and a stereotype that isn't normally associated with teen

comedy would make it a bit more unique and original. I have seen him act in

other productions and use an Irish accent effectively and it was a really

immersive character and I feel that immersing and creating effective characters

tends to be the focus in the style of comedy we are going for and are what carries

these types of productions. If you look at films like American pie it is the

characters that make the film and if we don't have convincing or the right kinds

of characters then the title sequence just wont work.