Our film in made up of two characters; a Mother and a daughter, therefor it is important to find two actresses who can play the two different ages. We've decided to look at two different resources for our characters; the university drama course could help us find an actress of 18-21 to play Alice. However, we need an actress with a convincing playing age to portray the Mother character. Our producer, Kayleigh, has placed an advertisement on the Drama blackboard pace, and I also suggested she got in contact with some local drama production companies, in order to find an actress with a playing age of 30-35, to play Alice's Mother. So far, we have had a good response for the role of Alice; four girls have shown interest and are wanting to audition. We have only had one response however, for the role of the Mother, from a local production company; she does suit the part in terms of her age and appearance, and as a mother herself, she complimented the development of the two characters' on-screen relationship within the script, I think it would really help to have someone who knows the dynamics of a Mother-daughter relationship. We have arranged for her to audition with the four younger actresses, during the easter holidays, to see who can project the best and most convincing performance.
Update 1
A few days before we are to audition our actors, and only two have confirmed their availability; one actor for each character. It's not convenient, as it doesn't give us any other options to choose from, but we are hoping they will be able to play the characters well.
Update 2
Having auditioned both actors, we are very happy with their performance, and have offered them the parts. There is the small issue of still finding a new location, and fitting this around their availability, but we're hoping this won't prove to be too much of a big issue.
Update 3
Unfortunately, Lucy (Alice) has informed us that her university timetable has changed, and her availability has become very limited. We have also had very little contact with Lauren (Mother), so we are getting a little worried about their reliability in terms of our filming dates. I think the best option at the moment is to keep looking for other people who could play our characters, just in case they one we have do let us down.
Update 4
As anticipated, both actresses have been unable to help us, there has been very little contact between them and Kayleigh; I do worry that her poor communication looked unprofessional to them, and in truth have actually just lost interest in our project, however I cannot be sure this is the case. We now have no actors at all. I feel that Kayleigh has lost interest in the project at this point, and is not willing to try and find anyone else. Michelina and I have taken it upon ourselves to find some new actresses. She has posted a new ad on the Drama blackboard, and I have advertised both roles on casting website, starnow.com. With five days before the booked film date, we are desperately hoping for responses.
Update 5
As a result of my ad, I got a response for both characters. The first was Bethan, an english student who applied for the role of Alice, we arranged to audition her the next day. She looked perfect for the part, and expressed the dialogue very well, so we decided to cast her straight away. The other response I had was for the role of the Mother, we were happy to at least have an option, but she didn't look right for the part at all, and she has applied from London, and was expecting us to pay for her travel and accommodation expenses. We had already paid for the apartment to film in, where she could stay, but it would cost too much to pay for anything else, so initially decided against her. However, it was so close to our film date, we decided to go ahead and pay for her travel, something we hadn't anticipated for the project, but I was willing to do it anyway. As far as things are going now, we are on-track to film on Tuesday.
Update 6
Disaster has struck yet again, I received a message from our actress from London; she has broken her foot and is unable to travel. Despite this providing yet another major problem, I'm quite relieved we won't have to pay for an actress, who wasn't right for the part anyway. I have now come up with two different solutions depending on what happens; the first is to change the mother character to an older sister, as we seem to have had a better response from the younger actresses. If all else fails, I plan to re-write the script to just involve one physical character, and write the Mother in as a memory, although I am hoping that it will not come to this as it is a lot of extra work.
Update 7
Luckily, two days before filming, we have been able to find an actress to portray the character of an older sister, which only involved some small changes to the dialogue in the script. She has previously worked in another groups film, which has confirmed her reliability for us. We made it clear that we had to film on Tuesday without fail, and she reassured us that this wasn't a problem, and she would be able to learn her lines by then. Although there is the issue that she won't have much time to rehearse with her on-screen sister, we are happy that this last-minute change I have made has resulted in us having our two characters.
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