For our film opening it was compulsory to hold auditions. This was to make the decision easier of who to choose to act in our piece but to also try out different people and experiment. Our group had already thought about who would star in our piece before the auditions began so this made it easier. Even though we had this idea we still had to audition others to see if we found anyone else more suited and to also see if the people we had In mind meted our expectations.
The two actors in our piece, Nick and Sarah are both adults. Because of this it would have been more effective to use adults in our opening. We still decided to audition people younger to see if it would still work but when we watched them back we did not feel the connection with someone young talking about their child.
Our final actors that we chose were Olly Young and Ellie Dodwell. Not only were they a similar age and both older than anyone else we auditioned but also had acting experience. We also auditioned people with little or no experience in acting to experiment with different types of abilities and people. We realised when we watched it back that have acting skills was vital for Sarah in particular as she has to be able to show the right amount of emotion when talking about her daughter and looking back on memories.
The decision to choose Ellie and Olly was quite simple as it was clear that they were the better two that we auditioned but also had the right image and age and were exactly what we were looking for the make our opening what we wanted it to be
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