Group Planning: Roles

Before we began to shoot the footage for our trailer we had already assigned ourselves roles within our first group meeting, the roles which we had chosen are listed below.

Job roles (Planning before pitch):
Seb - story boards, film, camera man.
Dalian - storylines, lead editor, director.
David - location photos, music.
Philip - project manager.

Actor Roles (Selected in group planning):
As we did not have our actors before our pitch we had to go back and plan which actors we would use for our storylines which we had planned. Below is a list of the actors which we used within our trailer, what role they played and why.

Edward - Teen: We chose to use Edward as he is within our target audience age group and we felt people would be able to relate to his character.

Dalian - Teen: We chose to use myself in the soap as I too am within our target audience age group, and I also have a White-Black Caribbean ethnic background. (I was unable to be in the recording so we planned to use David within the trailer; however we did not shoot the pub scene so David's did not appear in the trailer).

Philip - Drug Dealer: We chosen to use Philip as a drug dealer as we felt that he was not a stereotypical drug dealer, this was in order to connote the unexpected.

Martin - Parent (Arguing)

Penny - Parent (Arguing)

We used Philip's Parents in order to show family issues; unfortunately our cameraman Seb was unable to shoot the argument scene of the parents. we feel the shot recorded by Philip of his parents argument was poor filming as it did not feature shot reverse shot, and looks like they're washing up.

Mark - Bet Maker: We used Mark as a bet maker within our soap trailer as we also if from the our target audience age group. Mark was also a good actor to use for this as role as he was able to show the frustration which emphasised that he had lost a bet.

Alexander - Drug User: We chosen to use Alexander as a drug user as we also felt that he was not a stereotypical drug dealer, this was in order to connote the unexpected.