Actor sourcing.
Near the beginning of this project on the 6th of November 2017 I set up a listing on a website called "Star Now" calling for actors to play the parts of "Aaron", "Andrew", "Wayne" and most importantly "Christopher." Below I have put all of the applications that we received.
As well as this the website allow people to state that they are interested in the roles but don't match all of the specifications. Below I have attached all of this type of applicants.
We contacted all of the people who applied for our film and we thought would be suitable for their chosen role. We heard back from three and confirmed two for an interview while another sent us a video audition.
Below I have embedded one of the interviews we held in collage and the video audition.
Casting the correct actors is absolutely vital for a product of the nature of which we are creating as that the wrong actor may not have the appropriate characteristics to portray a character as serious as the ones we plan to have in our film. I feel like the casting process that we made our actors go through meant that only the people appropriate for the roles will be able to be in the film.
Afterword:
When our first filming date came around the actor James Barlett (shown in his video interview) said that he would be unable to attend the meeting as that a member of his family had passed away. As a contingency we had Joshua Gray (another member of the team) play the role of Andrew. Had we gotten more notice before Barlett pulled out we could have sourced another using starnow but unfortunatly he told us on the day which meant we had to use Joshua. Simmerlaly the role of Aaron had to be filled by Matthew Frost as that Michal Houghton was not able to make it and again told us on the day in which we were supposed to be filming.
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