rehearsals

On Monday 12th October, our first official rehearsal was held. However it was then when Emine Hassan, our Marie character, decided she did not want to play our part. Aswell as this problem, our main character played by Danny Martin also fell ill! As the main character is my brother, lucky enough I was able to rehearse his scenes and lines with him at home! Therefore this rehearsal consisted of running Kieran Roberts, Johnny's character, through his scenes. It was then we was able to cast Georgia Jones, a year 13 student to play our character of Marie as she was willing to help.
On Tuesday 13th October, (yes the day before filming!), we had our final rehearsal with Johnny and Marie's character. However as Alfie was still ill, he was unable to attend any rehearsals.

auditions

As we had a minimum response to our ask for sixth formers and drama students help, we had to rely on school pupils we knew to be able to play our characters. In order for our film to be a success, we knew the actors would have to understand the characters personalities and the lifestyle they have, to make their performance believable. Therefore on Thursday 8th October, we finally had our cast and a brief audition where we talked each actor through what would be required and how we expected their character to be played.
On Friday 9th, we sent out call sheets to our characters and also their costume requirements aswell as the expectations of our actual filming days.