Casting | Production Notes

When choosing actors to act in the first 2 minutes of my short film I had a few ideas of what I wanted both characters to look like. I was looking for someone to play my male character, Steven, and my female character, Clare. Both needed to be teenagers, or at least look young enough to be teenagers.

Steven, played by Dan Frank:

 

I wrote Steven as a brown haired guy wearing a casual top, jeans and a big coat to almost hide his outfit in the woods. The actor I used had the right coloured hair for the part while also wearing the correct clothing items. The actor was 17/18 years old which conformed to the age group I wanted to show in the film. 

Clare, played by Jamie Podesta:

I originally wrote Clare as a blonde haired girl wearing a casual top, jeans and a black jacket. The actress I used actually had brown hair, but when picking my actress I decided that the hair colour for the female character didn't really matter as long as it was quite long and well kept. At first I wanted a brown haired character and blonde haired character to contrast with one another, but then I thought that if they had the same hair colour, then it would show that they have something in common which would help foreshadow the whole story. The actress was 17/18 years old which conformed to the age group I wanted to show in the film. 

Both actors knew each other pretty well before filming so they already had some sort of chemistry when it came to filming. Looking at my footage, from the shoot, I can see that I made the right decision in actors as they help create the build up to the story and they both did a very good job.