Working With Actors

In class, we worked with three actors from first year of Performing Arts which was interesting because we could see the different ways our script could be performed. Our constructive criticism included; our script was written like a play as opposed to a film and we had written the names etc down wrong. So in our final draft we needed to make sure the script was in the proper format. Overall though, they loved the idea and one actress in particular was perfect for the role of Pip, so we have secured her for the role.

We have not had much luck in obtaining an elderly actress to act in our drama piece. Unfortunately, none of the acting agencies were much help for our contingency plan after our initial actress decided to no longer participate due to a busy schedule.

Thankfully, our director managed to secure a middle aged actress so we have changed it to her being the mother and still going slightly insane when she loses her marbles. The idea I put forward has completely changed, however, I still think we can make it work and the actress Thomas has secured is looking very promising. She even provided a link to a trailer of the latest film she has acted in, which looks brilliant. So as we now have a (slightly) older actress to play the older person, and we have the younger actress - Daisy - to play her daughter, we can begin to make plans for filming. Hopefully, there will be no other problems along the way.

This is the trailer she sent us for the last short film she participated in.

The only slight issue is that Meriel seems to have a relatively busy schedule too, however, she is very keen to participate so I'm sure we can make it work. We only need to ensure that we can obtain equipment for the days she is available.