Research into actors/actresses

Last year we in cooperated 8 characters into our script. Initially, this was a brilliant idea as our whole concept appeared more adventurous, and helped the whole film appear more authentic.

However, when it came to filming, we have severe reliability issues as none of the initial cast that we hoped would act, were no longer available and we had an extremely tight schedule. Subsequently, this meant that we had to use several characters twice throughout the film, and had to try to disguise each actor to appear as a new character.\

This year, we tried to build our story with as little characters as possible, without letting it limit us to any story-lines that we would want to develop. Now we are at a point where we are starting to consider potential actors and actresses that could play the characters in the film.

For this, each character needs to meet certain criteria (However, as it is now.. we have to try and prioritize features that we would like, due to availability)

For Luke, we need characters that..

• Are able to drive as there are driving scenes
• Needs to have a confident voice as he will be narrating
• Able to act
• Someone who isn't afraid to be affectionate with female character in initial scene

For Nicole, we need a character that..

• Looks sweet and innocent
• Isn't afraid to become affectionate with Luke
• Is able to give as convincing crying scene

For Melissa, we need a character that is..

• Able to look evil/hard
• Is able to talk face-to-face on a camera

At the moment, our thought for the male character is Daniel Stammers/Andrew Kerr from our group. This is due to not wanting to rely on our friends from last year who let us down, and we both have similar ideas about how we want the film to be like.

For the females, we would like Lucy Royds, Nicola Bamforth, Kirsten Barman, Alica Whitehouse, Aimee Tindall to play either the female characters (which we will have to discuss with each of them)

So at the moment, it would appear that we have a potential, reliable male and a whole selection of females.