Casting- Wednesday 29th February

Setting four chairs and desks in front of the green screen ready for the actors to do a screen test kind of felt like I was Simon cowell judging on X-Factor! Whether that was just me I don’t know! I don’t know about the others, but at this point it all seemed quite real that something i had wrote was getting made in to a proper film. ‘My first proper film’ not every day you get to say that! Anyway this is where everything starts to come in to place. Just have to find the right actors to fit the characters...

Not knowing what to expect everyone in my group got ready and took their roles, one as ‘the writer’ (taking notes), one  constantly nodding and giving them the ‘your doing great’ look and the other keeping a straight face. I don’t know if we all kept them roles but that’s what we tried to come across as. Since the script was known as the ‘Disney’ script the actors prepared monologues from their favourite Disney film or fairytale story.

At the beginning of the casting we didn’t really know what we were doing, we got the hang of things, asking the actors questions that would be relevant if they got a part. We prepared questions such as;

• Do you have any prom wear?
• What would the character your auditioning for portray in the fairytale fantasy? (E.g. Witch, princess, prince, joker etc.)
• And of course what was their favourite Disney or fairytale story and who they would like to play

And vital questions such as; if they had any issues with transport or any dates they would be unavailable.

The funniest answer has got to be James’ who said his favourite Disney film is Toy Story 3 and would love to play Mr Potato Head- thats one i wasn’t expecting and would actually love to see how he would play this character!

Out of everyone’s audition there’s two that stood out. We had someone being  Ursula from the Little Mermaid who was literally shouting at us, seriously if I was the little mermaid I would have been scared of her. And of course we had a monologue from Peter Pan and considering one of the main characters is based on a peter pen / joker character, we instantly knew they would be right for the character.

Anyway it was quite amusing just took forever trying to match people to the right characters. If people fit the roles they didn’t look like the stereotypical characters, if they looked right they didn’t sound right. Guess I’m too picking, but that’s what fairytales do they make you believe everything has to be perfect and then everything will go right in the end....

Again probably getting too much in to the whole fairytale thing, but hey a girl can dream! And when costumes and make up have to be over the top you’ve got to join in with the whole theme... OBVIOUSLY!