Casting - Planning

As the music video will be showing a relationship of a heterosexual couple, my main protagonists are the primary people throughout the production; especially the girl in the couple. Ideally the two actors will be between 16 and 18 in order to make the structure of a young teenage relationship appear realistic to the audience. This also is great for my production as actors that are the most accessible to me which will make the casting process a lot easier with a a wider range of actors available to me. I would like to cast actors with previous acting experience as it will be less stressful and they would be more likely to take the sensitive nature and themes of the music video seriously and act professionally.

Firstly, I will need to cast a female as I have decided that within the narrative I want a heterosexual couple. I have decided to cast Rachel Cox as my female lead within my music video as she has previous acting experience achieving an A grade at the end of year 11 in GCSE theatrical studies. She has also continued her passion this year by continuing theatrical studies to A-levels where she is also set to receive a high grade. She has also had lead roles in school productions where she was following dark and sensitive narratives where she responded maturely and sensitively; highlighting her variety as an actress.





In regards to physical attributes, I would like the male character to look tall and strong in order to play a dominant lead that other male characters are comparing themselves to. Furthermore, if the male looks strong and resilient there is likely to be more of an impact on the audience of the sensitive nature of the video. Furthermore, I require the actor to have glasses as it also makes the character appear more mentally dominant as well as physically dominant. With this criteria in mind I have chosen to cast William Peckover as my male lead. I want to hire people who have had previous acting experience and Will was a GCSE theatrical studies student two years ago and achieved an overall A grade. He has since gone on to study theatrical studies at A-level and in his first module received an A* Grade as well as starring in my AS media studies production. 

Overall, the combination of the pair's dramatic abilities will allow them to create and authentic romance as part of my media production, which is something that can be difficult to display within a music video as there is often no dialogue.