PRE-PRODUCTION; CAST AND CREW UPDATE

In terms of our castings, we have been advertising on Mandy.com. We put all 4 characters, Marlo, Nova, Julie and Mr Shipman. We were surprised to have quite a few responses fairly quickly as we were worried that it would take a while to find some people, so that was great! After the initial applications, I sat down with director Laura and Katie and we went through the applications together. I wanted to do this so that i could make notes on the actors and who we needed to contact, and so that everyone else could have an input in looking at the potential casts. There were quite a few applications that we felt were not suitable for the role because they didn't fit the character profiles, so as we went through I was noting everybody's names and locations with a comment describing if we felt they didn't fit our character profiles, or if we would like a self-tape for them. Some of our applicants didn't have a showreel, so we've asked everyone for a self-tape, using draft 2/3 of our script so that we can decide fairly from there. We will most likely be completing auditions after this stage, so we can make sure our actors work well together. The only instance where we may not need to complete auditions, is with Marlo, an actor we have all previously worked with on our 'Riverdale' project. We were really happy with this actor previously so when we receive the self-tape we will fully decide.

Potential Cast List

In terms of crew, we always knew we wanted to work with our previous year groups in roles such as sound and director of photography. I thought it was important that as the director, Laura was instrumental in choosing who she wanted to be the DoP. What we have done, is as a group sat down and looked at the 2nd years previous work on their 'Directions' Unit. This allowed us to look at pretty much everyone in action as a DoP/Camera Op, we have a few in mind who we would love to work with so now I just need to contact these people to get these confirmed. In terms of sound, there isn't a lot of previous work we can go off, so I think what would be best is to speak to and ask some of the other year groups who has a firm interest in sound and would like to gain more experience through our shoot. I think this will mean we should get someone who is reliable because they will have a genuine interest in the role.