Planning: casting

For our film trailer, we are going to be using two actors as the trailer will be solely based on their relationship. Due to the nature of our film, we felt that our actors needed to be comfortable in each others company  and with certain romantic scenes. In order to achieve this we decided that we would try to cast actors who are actually already in a relationship as the romantic and abusive scenes will be easier to film if they are comfortable with each other. The two actors will be a male and female, as this will help to portray the serious downfall of a stereotypical relationship.

The age of the actors ideally needs to be young adults, however as neither Megan or I know anyone that would be able to help, we have made the decision to cast actors who are around 17/18 years old. We also wanted to cast the actors knowing that they have previous acting background so that we can portray the trailer in as real a situation as possible, with the skill of the actors helping us achieve this.


Physically, the male will need to look tall and strong in order to portray the fact that he holds a power over the female and that he is superior to her; as a result of this main criteria, we casted Jay as we felt that he met these aims. Jay carried out GCSE drama 2 years ago, and was a student who achieved an A overall; this was a second reason why we chose to cast him as our male actor as his previous experience with acting will help when filming. Because the nature of our film is a very sensitive topic and something that needs to be handled with care, we feel that having a person who has had experience with acting will help to portray the most realistic representation of what we are trying to show the target audience.

For the female actor, we have used Nicole, a GCSE and A level drama student, who achieved grade A's for both levels of education.  Nicole is in a relationship with Jay, which is one of the reasons why we cast them together, as we think that their current relationship will help to portray a natural chemistry on screen, which is something that can be extremely difficult to achieve in romance films. She is a very passionate drama student, and often takes part in a number of extra curricular drama workshops, and was part of this years school production. Due to her avid interest in drama, we feel that this will be represented in her portrayal of the abused character.