Process:
- Go into the sixthform centre
- Ask people questions:
- Why should we cast you?
- What is your best quality?
- Have you had any pervious acting experience?
- Ask boys the questions so that we can say that we were considering different options for the stalker- chose a woman because there wouldn't be the immedate assumption that she was a sexual predator.
We conducted interviews before our casting process to decide what direction we wanted the stalker to go in. These questions helped us find out who would work best as an actor and a person. We decided, through interviewing the boys, that we would rather a female stalker. We though that Charlotte would be the best as she was already in our production team and so could help to direct her scenes. Charlotte is also cast as the best friend of Sarah, Becky, who we decided should be the stalker. Althouh this is not discovered in our film-opening, havin a female stalker leaves the motive up to interpretation whereas with a male stalker it would be assumed, stereotypically, that thei motivation was sexual.
Female interviews for the stalker:
Male interviews for the stalker:
A novel idea - I wonder who got the parts? I think that the female roles could be filled by any of this confident set of young actors and certainly there is a standout contender for the male role. You have planned, scripted, filmed and edited this competently.
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