Select Actors

Main character- Emily Harvey 
Antagonist- Bella Nunn
Singer-Natasha Ball
The Couple- Georgia and Jake 
Preppy Character- Sam Fisher
Other subsequent characters- Cecilia, Rubi, Megan, Emily, Alec 

Our character list is not as long as we had originally planned for in our planning but we realised that having less characters may make our music video slightly more manageable for us whilst still maintaining an environment that is relevant to our genre and specific to our party. Although we didn't have as many characters as initially planned We thought simplified our idea and realised that we only needed the main characters and a select few others who would enable us to maintain our original narrative even if it was a less complicated one.

We picked Emily to be our main character as she possessed the correct Mise en scene such as the shoes and the coat that are featured in the music video. She also volunteered to be the main character as our group were indifferent about what characters we each portrayed. Although as a group we were indifferent about the characters we portrayed we based each of the characters that we played off of ourselves as well as the people who helped us film and be apart of the music video. We based our characters on who would fit which role best and who we felt could accurately portray them whilst developing the narrative through the music video.

Our antagonist was played by Bella and although she wasn't a stereotypical antagonist, the audience perceive her as childish and troubling. This is shown by Bella's mannerisms throughout the video but also what happens to her at the climax of our video in which she is found to be passed out presumably from obtaining alcohol or drugs. This reinforces our initial ideas of raising the awareness of alcohol and drugs which is contrasting our song lyrics. In our video we have subverted the song lyrics to have a different interpretation through the means of our music video and the narrative that is told throughout it.  Bella also had the correct Mise en scene to play the antagonist which can be shown through the dress she wears and the heels which stereo-typically are linked to mean girls in films.

Sam volunteered to be the preppy character in our video because of the Mise en scene relating to his thriller last year which we used as an inter-textual reference as it allowed for our video to have more depth as well as allowing it to be developed.

We thought that we had to feature other characters who may not necessarily add anything to the narrative but would help to develop the main characters. Each of our subsequent characters were chosen as they were different to each other. We thought that each of the different actors could bring a different perspective on their character allowing for us to develop them further than what we had originally planned.This allowed for us to develop them further than what we had originally planned and allow the allow for them to become more involved in our narrative such as the ping pong ball scene which most of our characters feature in.. Some of the actors that we feature in our music video were of an opportunity sample and were involved because they could be at the last minute if we had had people drop out. 

Unfortunately when selecting our characters we struggled to maintain actors as quite a few had a change of plan last minute or understandably had their own work to do. This left us with very few actors meaning that we had to simplify our idea or have people act more than once if they had the correct mise en scene costume wise.  

Although we faced difficulties when selecting the correct actors who would fit wit our idea for our music video, eventually we had to use people who were available and adapt our idea to the actors we had which in our opinion worked slightly better than we had originally planned for.  

  

Unfortunately, we were not able to gather pictures of our actors as we were too focused on filming and gathering sufficient footage for our music video that we could then use in our edit.