Film Production - Actors

When deciding who would play Holly in our film, we chose our friend Shauna to play her as she is who we based the character on when we were planning the film. She also has experience of acting because she was the main character of a teen angst opening last year - and we needed somebody who is able to perform in our film professionally. Even though she isn't in many scenes of our trailer, the main problem with having Shauna as the actress is that it is hard to coordinate times when we are all available to film, as she had another lesson when we were media and we all had other arrangements outside of school.

Barnaby was meant to be Michael but could not meet our production schedule so we recast the role to Lucy's brother, Matthew, as he was available when Lucy was and it was easier to get footage including him - he's only briefly shown so we just needed him to be in the background of a shot in the trailer. Although he is too young to play the character, his face isn't shown in the trailer and he is tall enough to look like he's 17, so he was suitable for the role. He is an experienced actor but is only skilled in playing comedy roles, which is why we only wanted him in the trailer briefly.

Lucy and Eva play Holly's friends, Amy and Natalie. The clips of bad things happening to Holly's friends are only brief so the audience don't know much about these characters, so it doesn't matter that they are inexperienced in acting. An advantage of using these two as our side characters is that they are both in the group, so they knows all the details of the plot and how to film properly.

We didn't need an actress to be Holly's mother as she isn't shown in the trailer - although if we did need one, we would use Lucy's mother, as she would be available to film when we need her.