R&P Post 16: Casting

Cast List for aglet

For casting we were keen to type cast as much as possible. A friend of mine had a very similar character and way of dressing to how we wanted David to be and became a key inspiration in the creation of David. Although he didn't play a major role in the opening, we thought it was still important to introduce him and make it clear what sort of character he was in the opening sequence. It became even easier to cast him into the role as he was good friends with the A Level drama student we chose to play the main role and therefore gave him more incentive to act in our small media production. This can clearly be seen in the cast list.

When casting our lead role, we thought it was very important to choose a confident actor, who also bore some physical and personality based resemblances to our main character. Another friend of mine, Reuben, was chose for the role as he did A Level drama and thus could give a convincing performance as well as offer strong similarities to the image of Craig we all had in our heads. Thankfully, he was happy to take part and I honestly feel that the opening would have been of a very sub-par standard had we not had access to Reuben. 

Our moodboard for Craig

Overall, I think that our choices when casting were strong as the people we chose closely resembled the characters we wanted them to play. That said, if I were to make our production again, I would have only added characters to the storyline if we knew exactly who we wanted to play each character and that person had agreed to acting our piece. This is because the actor we had lined up for the bully pulled out, resulting in me having to play the bully, which definitely negatively impacted the opening as I do not resemble the "Essex lad" archetype very well.