Film Planning - Actor List

     Me and my group have decided the plot of the film opening, so now we had to figure out who will be acting as the characters. It was decided that Me and another one of my group members, Gabriella, will be acting in the film opening. My other groupmate, Sophia Espinosa, will be acting as a director and telling us what she wants from us to make the film opening best align with the subgenre and convey the spirit of our characters to the audience. She had the idea for me and Gaby to act in the film opening to make the film more authentic and make the characters more relatable to the audience. Sophia believed that having us as the actresses would make making the script easier because she knows us pretty well and she can model the characters after our personalities. She told me and Gaby that our lack of acting experience would tie in to the awkward personalities of a teenager.

Alejandra's actress - Gabriella Offredi

Arianna's actress - Jocelyn Villa

    Gabriella Offredi will be playing the role of Alejandra. I, Jocelyn Villa, will be playing the role of Arianna. The actresses being the same age as the characters helps relate the characters to the audience. I imagined that the target audience of the film/film opening will be teenage girls and young women. The characters and actresses being the same age and the characters having similar personalities to me and Gaby will make it easier for us to get into character and emulate the experience of being teenager and a teenage girl. My other groupmate, Sophia Espinosa, will be acting as a director and telling us what she wants from us to make the film opening best align with the subgenre and convey the spirit of our characters to the audience.

    Now that the actors have been cast, the next thing we have to work on is the first draft script of the film opening and figuring out the dialogue. I am wondering if we could work in some slang vocabulary from the 2000s ear into the dialogue. I figured that if the characters are teenage girls living in the 2000s, they would fully understand the language and references from that era. I discussed the idea with Sophia and we are working on finding words that we can work into the script that don't make the language feel unnatural and over-the-top.

In my next post, I will be talking about the script for the film opening!