Actors

ACTORS When it came to choosing who we wanted to act in our video, we decided to keep the actors in our group as we thought this would be easier as we knew, as a group, what we wanted to achieve, so instead of having to relay our ideas to other people who may not understand the kind of things we wanted do with our video, we decided to use myself and Cody for the main actors for our video. In a similar sense, we decided not to ask people to be extras for our video as all the locations we are using are city centre locations that are always highly populated with people which works well with the distorting concept of our video. We chose to cast people of our age in the video is essentially about two teenagers, ones who is fixated on the thought of being in love with a certain girl, who may be a figure of his imagination.

MALE CHARACTER Our male character is a seemingly secretive and closed off person. Cody can easily achieve this, with his costume; it’s extremely easy to create the representations we wanted. Cody isn’t a drama student which we thought, for both characters, could cause issues, but we realised our roles are simple enough that it will be easy to create the images we wanted to, regardless of whether we are drama students.

FEMALE CHARACTER I am taking the role of the female character. This is a fairly simple role, and as I'm not a drama student, it is easy for me to carry out. Our female character is a very illusive and, in a sense, mysterious character in that we, as the audience don't know if she actually exists. Although, I’m 17 and Cody is 18, we felt this would fit perfectly with what we were trying to achieve with our portrayal of our characters, as like many teenagers, we are showing them to be extremely closed off and secretive people who are extremely susceptible to ‘love’ even when it doesn’t really exist.