Finding Our Male Actor
It was more difficult for us to find an actor to play the part of Ben than it was for Lucy. This could be because he isn't a nice character, which I think is harder to portray. In addition, he needed quite a particular kind of look in order to be believable as the character.
I posted a few casting calls on Facebook, and Connor got in touch with a couple of acting agencies asking for people to audition. I had already booked a room to audition in, all we needed was an actor. But we just didn't have any luck. The problem was that I kept having to join groups and wait on admin approval, but this could take any amount of time. I had to just wait around until I was approved. I had literally no access to the pages beforehand.
I kept posting in groups when I could, and on my personal page. Only about three people got in touch.
The people who got in touch were not suitable. One Actor, Declan Smith, got in touch with me. He would have suited the part well, and we were keen to see him audition, but he was unreliable and stopped replying to any messages or emails about auditioning.
Another got in touch but he lived too far outside of Leeds and we could see it being an issue - as we were not sure how much of a budget we would have to pay travel costs, and might have ended up waiting around for him to travel long distances were he to hit traffic for instance.
Another man got in touch but did not fit the description which was clearly posted in the casting call. We wanted someone with a playing age of early twenties, someone easily seen as a student. This man was middle aged.
I replied and told him that he didn't fit the description but thank you for getting in touch.
At this point it was very close to the audition date. I started putting out urgent casting calls every day for the next three days until the day before auditions. It was essential that we secured a male actor as soon as possible, as Ben's role was absolutely integral to the film.
This is the casting call that I posted the day before we were set to have auditions.
Finally, an actor got in touch who we thought would be suitable for the role, the night before we were supposed to be auditioning. He sent me his CV, he had a lot of work experience and worked with an acting agency that I had used before. In fact, he was in a few of the Drama films from last semester. Having worked with the film school before on a number of projects, we felt that this is a good sign that he would be reliable and professional - as we would have heard otherwise from our peers. We felt he was perfect.
He couldn't make it to the audition, so we worked around this and set up a video chat with the director, so that they could have a chat about the film and get acquainted. And as a result, another rehearsal was set up later on with both of our actors.
Finally, we had successfully casted our film.
-Hannah Bowler
I posted a few casting calls on Facebook, and Connor got in touch with a couple of acting agencies asking for people to audition. I had already booked a room to audition in, all we needed was an actor. But we just didn't have any luck. The problem was that I kept having to join groups and wait on admin approval, but this could take any amount of time. I had to just wait around until I was approved. I had literally no access to the pages beforehand.
I kept posting in groups when I could, and on my personal page. Only about three people got in touch.
The people who got in touch were not suitable. One Actor, Declan Smith, got in touch with me. He would have suited the part well, and we were keen to see him audition, but he was unreliable and stopped replying to any messages or emails about auditioning.
At this point it was very close to the audition date. I started putting out urgent casting calls every day for the next three days until the day before auditions. It was essential that we secured a male actor as soon as possible, as Ben's role was absolutely integral to the film.
This is the casting call that I posted the day before we were set to have auditions.
Finally, an actor got in touch who we thought would be suitable for the role, the night before we were supposed to be auditioning. He sent me his CV, he had a lot of work experience and worked with an acting agency that I had used before. In fact, he was in a few of the Drama films from last semester. Having worked with the film school before on a number of projects, we felt that this is a good sign that he would be reliable and professional - as we would have heard otherwise from our peers. We felt he was perfect.
He couldn't make it to the audition, so we worked around this and set up a video chat with the director, so that they could have a chat about the film and get acquainted. And as a result, another rehearsal was set up later on with both of our actors.
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