Explaination for auditions

To cast our film we need to hold autions. The auditions will give us a chance to look at many different people for the role of a character and then decide who is best and who we want in our film. Auditions will also give us the chance to decide what we want our characters to look like. We have an idea that we want Harry to be tall, of slim build and have dark hair but if we auditioned one or two people who had blonde hair or who were of larger build we may decide that on camera these characteristics will have more of an effect.

Our auditions for Harry will take place in front of a camera so we can have an ide of what each person will look like on camera as it is very different to how they look to the naked eye, it also means we have the film there to look back on, review and compare with other auditions. For the audition potential actors will be given an extract of the script to read and will be directed in different ways to read it. this will give us an idea of how the person would play the character and how well they can take direction. This is important because if the actor can't take direction it will make the whole filming process much longer and could end up changing the whole film into something we as directors don't want.

Our audition for Penny will be slightly different as she doesn't say anything in the opening she is only seen walking past Harry so at this point the main thing we are looking for is that her apperance is right. We are looking for someone with an innocent feminine look about her as we want the audience to empathise with her and see her as the victim throughout the film. As her look is the most important thing we are only going to photograph potential actors. This means we can compare them and see who we think fits the role for our opening best. We are going to do the same thing for her friend. The look of her friend isn't as important because she is only a very minor character but we need to make sure the two girls look right together and fit comfortably in a frame together.

Olivia Saltmarsh