Casting

Choosing a cast took a lot of time and effort, both the contacts Daniel and Sam were to contact were few and between especially with the requirements for the music video. 

Daniel's first go-to choice for casting was Thomas as he presented a talent in already playing the guitar. This would help a lot with the process as he was willing to learn the song and what the actual guitar playing looks like when playing. Contacting Tom was easy since he is in the same Media lesson, so he was simply approached and asked if he would partake in our Media project. He accepted and we had him give us a demonstration of his acting in the performance sense as we needed to see if he could express himself and move around a lot. So overall Tom was ready to be the guitarist in the performance part of the video.

The second choice for casting was Will as he was also a musician, into playing guitar and bass so we figured his talents could be useful. This went well in the initial stages with him agreeing to take part and perform in our music video, however he eventually became more busy and it was for the benefit of the production that we decided to hire someone else who could be more consistent and show up.

The third choice for casting was Alex who was also a Media student and close friend of Tom and Dan so the loyalty and consistency to him showing up wasn't really a problem in this sense and he seemed willing to perform in this production. We did see how well he could perform as he doesn't play any instruments in real life so putting him on the drums was an obvious choice for us as we could simply have him match the beat and not have to worry about the details quite as much.

Daniel volunteered to play two major roles, being the singer and the main character in the narrative as it is very easy for Daniel too act expressively and perform when singing and has already had practise with the lip syncing videos. This also allowed for the narrative to be filmed at Daniel's house so we had easy access to film after college in our spare time. We had the idea that I go through several shots too see how well I can perform as these two roles and it went well.