actors

For our social realism production, we need two younger actors, one male and one female, around the age of thirteen/fourteen to play the girl and boy who are fond of each other. Our group discussed holding auditions for the part, but realised this is not only time consuming, it would be difficult to find young teenagers easily and willing to play the part and in addition we would have to seek permission off their parents which may be a lot of hassle and unreliable in terms of time restrictions. Luckily, Ben and I both have younger siblings both willing to participate in the film. Through deciding this we also came up with a great idea to do within our film, which is to use both me and Ben as actors, playing older versions of our siblings. The advantages of this is that it will be a lot easier to get permission, we have a lot more control over when and where we can do our filming, and both our siblings look like us, so will be a lot more realistic, adding to the effects of social realism. We are putting a letter explaining to both our parents what’s happening and for them to sign so we have consent, as they are both under the age of 16.