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We held our year twelve auditions today that went very well. I found a short monologue from the musical "Fame" and they each read this in front of myself and Helena. I chose this monologue as it encompasses alot of different emotions in one speech and would allows the girls to act out a dramatic and highly emotional scene. Jack told the students where to find us and we held the auditions.

We had a fair few number of students turn up and have decided on our final two actors so will hopefully be ready to film by next week...We are going to e-mail the two students this afternoon hopefully and let them know they have the parts.

Nat is finishing off the storyboard currently in preparation to show on Monday and then we can officially begin filming.

Stef

Audition notification

Luckily we got some very enthusiastic responses from the year twelve drama students and so I comprised this email and Helena found the names of those that responded and sent them all this e-mail...





So hopefully a few will turn up and we will have our final actors by next week to start filming asap.

Today in media Helena and I wrote a formal shot list for Nat to use to draw the storyboard. The two of us took half of the storyboard each to write in the descriptions for each shot and so hopefully will have it completed by next week. Jack's now in charge of questionnaire results and data so just a note to him; people have responded to the questionnaire of my facebook so feel free to include my results to draw up a conclusion.

Stef

Calling all year 12's

Well basically as Stef said in her last post, I have been composing a email to send out to the year 12's asking them whether they would be intrested in starring in our teaser trailer. (see below)
Stef and I got the list of Year 12 theatre students from head of drama. Th poster outlines what we want them to do, what it's for and when we need them. Stef and I sent it out yesterday (29/09/09) and already we have had six responses. We have decided that we will hold another audition but we are still hopeful for a few more responses by the time we send out the email. Stef is currently writing it and will blog about it once we have sent it out.
This is the email I sent out

Helena

"Thanks for auditioning guys..."

Well, after hosting the auditions (which went really well), we decided to go with an older age group and also audition some year twelves. We asked the head of the drama department to give us the names of all the theatre students in year twelve and have sent them an email to ask them to audition. In the mean time, we delivered the letter posted to the two girls we auditioned to let them know the news.

Helena will upload the email we have sent to the year twelves and we hope they will reply as soon as possible. We will then host some auditions and hope to begin properly filming next Tuesday 6th October after school. Our actresses will be chosen based on both their acting capabilities and that they are able to film on the alloted days we have chosen. We drew up a table of all the days we can each do to film in today's media lesson and have chosen the first couple of days to film and where we will film. In the mean time, we are individually going to do some location scouting to determine which locations we will use.

Stef

Casting calls

Stef and I created a poster for the casting calls and handed it around some Year 9 girls to see who would be intrested as mentioned in a previous blog.

This was the poster that we created














Helena

Auditions

Well, today we had our auditions for the two girls who will be the main focus in our media film. We sent out a notice to a set of Year Nine girls who displayed a premlimary interest in acting in our teaser trailer.
When we arrived at the auditions there were two girls waiting and we auditioned them using a extract from a book of short plays. We were impressed in how they took direction and became invovled in the charecters that they played.
The only problem we do face is the fact that they are quite young and we may have the issue of gaining parental permission. So we are considering also audtioning Year 12 theatre studies students as they should be confident in acting for us.
If we do use Year 12 students then we will ask the Year 9 students to play a part by singing the nursery rhyme, 'Mary Mary, quite contary' as they have fairly high pitiched voices which can sound fairly childish and eerie.

Now we have started our auditions we have more of an idea of what we are looking for so when we do audition the Year 12's, hopefully we will find people who fit the part that we are looking for. Meanwhile, we are working on our storyboards and starting to think about the film poster.

Helena

Update

We have a final plot all decided, which Helena will blog about soon as she's having a few problems logging in right now. However, we are currently storyboarding, for which Nat is doing the drawings and Helena and I will help her with the writing and description of each shot.
As for actors, Helena and I are hosting auditions with a few year nine girls from our school tomorrow. We are going to supply them with a script to read infront of us to see their confidence and see who's right for which role. Our group has also decided to audition some year twelve theatre students to see which age group would work better for our teaser trailer.
All of us are also gonna load up the questionnaire Jack mentioned onto our Facebooks to try and get as many responses as we can.

Stef