Actors

Previous experiences when making short films has shown me that using people that don't know how to act in films is never a good move, so for this film; I wanted to get it right.

As a precaution, I decided to put flyers around Coleg Cambria in Wrexham with my university email address on it for performing arts students to contact me if they wanted to act in it.

Here is the flyer:

Along side all of my work in my second year, I have done some extra curricular work with the performing arts students, and have been able to see first hand just what they're capable of. Over the last few weeks, I invited the students that I thought would be able to play the roles of my characters, to an audition.

I managed to audition five male students and five females, all of which prepared a monologue that they read to camera. Here are the reels of the students I finally chose to be in my film:





I thought Gwynneth had a shyness about her personality, but when I have seen her perform, she is capable of really coming out of her shell. She will be playing the lead character, Sarah, who has similar traits to Gwynneth, she's shy, but when she's encouraged or pushed, she becomes confident and strong.



When watching Alex perform, I have seen him play sinister, very serious characters, but when I wrote the character of Michael, I wanted him to be sinister and twisted, but also very lively and loud. When I told Alex to play the character that way, I wasn't quite sure what sort of performance I would get from him, but the result blew me away, and you can see why in his reel.


Claire's character is Jess, Sarah's best friend, and in real life; Claire is one of Gwynneth's close friends. Normally, I would be very hesitant to consider two close friends to act in case of them being nonprofessional, however, I have seen Claire perform alongside Gwynneth previously, as well as on her own, and they are both professional. Jess is almost the comic relief of the film, she has a bubbly personality, but also reveals a dark secret which brings her to tears, and I firmly believe Claire is fully capable of giving this performance, as you may be able to see from her reel.