Casting: Star

Animals can be very challenging to work with when filming as they cannot easily be communicated with and be told what to do. The animals I need to cast are a strawberry roan horse, a white horse (known as grey) and a dog.

Some of our friends own a small strawberry roan mare named The Frosted Princess of the Midnight Ballet, or her stable name is Star. We decided to ask them to create a video of her to see how good she was. This was the result and we have decided that Star will appear in our trailer. This decision was made due to her good behaviour and ability to be controlled without even a headcollar on.

Casting: The fairy

The slidely presentation below shows a few pictures of the Fairy cast in my trailer. The fairy is in fact myself. Me and my production partner Charli Honnor decided that I was right for the role as we would both have a small part in our trailer and I fit the character description having long blonde hair and being in my late teens. I have acting experience and have played the role of a fairy on previous occasions. Having made up the storyline myself I have a clear idea of what I want the shots and fairy to look like, so having me play the role gives us an advantage as I can help our final product look as close to perfect as possible as I know exactly what I want each shot to look like.

Casting: Fairy by Slidely Slideshow

Casting: The princesses

This Slidely presentation shows some pictures of the two princesses that I have cast. They are Olivia Miller and Billi Davis who are both 15 years old. I have chosen older actors for the roles as they will be required for a lot of shots so will need to be able to cope with long days of filming. They are both also good friends meaning their close bond should be evident when filming which should look good on camera. This is useful as casting complete strangers with no acting experience can prove difficult when trying to make them look like friends on screen. Both are also confident around horses and riding which is required for the film. Olivia and Billi also have acting experience and live not too far away and are available after school and weekends.

The princesses by Slidely Slideshow

Casting: Alice

The image below is that of a mind map that I created when I was casting for the role of Alice: our main character. I looked at the skills required and then assessed the ability of our actors against this. I have decided that Amelie Honnor will be cast as Alice as she acts very professional and her acting skills were very good when we cast her, she was able to imagine the 'make belive' situations in the fairy tale storyline without looking fake, which helped us make the decision.

 

Casting: Newsreader

The image below is that of a mind map that I created when casting for the role of a newsreader, I have decided that Mr Southworth will be our actor, again, for reasons that are detailed in the mind map.

 

Casting: Alice's mother

This is the mind map that I created when casting for the role of Alice's mother. I have decided to pick Chloe for the role of Alice; not only because she is Amelie's mother and she looks alike to her but Amelie will feel comfortable acting with her.

 

Casting: Rapunzel and Goldilocks

This is the mind map that I created when casting the fairy and Goldilocks. I have decided to use the same actor for both roles for reasons detailed below.