Actors and Actresses

At this stage of the planning process we need to think about our actors and actresses. At the moment we are unsure who we want to cast for our two main characters. However we do have some people in mind.
Below are the images of the people we are considering:

Male Role:

Tameem Rahman

Daniel Pirie

Female Role:

Sophie Mooney

Chelsea Davison

When it came to choosing our actor and actress, we wanted to make sure we had a range of people to choose from. Above are the images in which we took of the two males and two females. One reason why we did was so that when it came to choosing our actors we had to take into consideration age,gender,race and ethnicity etc. This enabled us to make sure we were choosing the right stereotypes for our characters.
From reflecting upon this, we as a group have decided to cast Chelsea Davison for the female role and Daniel Pirie. We choose Chelsea as our female role as we believed she would represent the image in which we are trying to create for the MI5 worker which is stylish and well presented. We believe that Chelsea portrays all of these.
We also choose Daniel for our male role as he as already got some acting experience. This will be beneficial as he will be reliable and also will hopefully be able to give the best performance.
Continuing on with our character for our title sequence, we need an 'audience in MI5. For this we are planning to use our media class. However the only problem with this is because the rest of the class are all females. To overcome this problem we will ask other males if they will be willing to be filmed for our coursework. We choose to use our media class for this part of our title sequence as they will be the most reliable as we are in a class with them so it wouldn't have to take up any of there spare time.

So that we can get the best results possible, we will need to take into consideration and rely on our actors and actresses for reliability for when and where we need them. In addition to this, to be able to keep the continuity we need to make sure that our actors know that they wont be able to change their looks during the filming. By them changing their looks this will hinder our footage and will mean that we will have to re-shoot costing us valuable time and also their time as well.

In this stage of the process, I have now come to realise how much we need to take into consideration when it came to casting our characters. I now know and understand the depth we had to go into the make sure that we casted the right people for the character in which we were trying to create. Without casting the right person for the role, we could create the wrong image and a completing different image to what we were intending to do. Lastly, I now am aware that we had to take into consideration the age, gender, race and ethnicity etc, of the people in which we wanted to cast as our characters.