R+P Post 27: Casting

Mario on the right
and Eddie on the left

For Orlando and DJ Ed-E, we decided to use people from our media group. We thought this would be the best option because we already had a clear vision of what we wanted in the music video and would be able to carry these ideas out. Mario would be playing Orlando, and Eddie would be playing the DJ.

For the role of the child, we wanted someone who clearly looked young, the gender did not matter, since we found there wasn't really a gender bias in our primary audience of EDM fans. We first thought of using our friend Arian to play the role of the child; he looks fairly young and is taking drama for A-Level, meaning he would be able to act well in our video. However, when we discussed the times for our shoot with him, we found out that he would have to be attending rehearsals for the school play, which meant that we had to find someone else to play the child.

Shayam

We then decided that we should use Shayam from our media class instead. She also fit the role of the child very well. She had the same free periods as Eddie, which in addition to the periods in which we had media means that we would have a lot of time to shoot with her. Furthermore, the fact that she was also doing media means that she will have a good understanding of what we are trying to do with different shots when we direct her.




For the crowd of dancers, we have decided to use people from our media class, we plan to shoot during a lesson, since they would all be available at this time. Since we are not going to have an established dance routine, it is okay if the dancers don't have any training in dancing.

One of our extras