Casting Information

Before we could look at auditioning people for the different characters within our piece we had to think about what type of people we would like to cast.
We have seven different main characters within our soap opera trailer and we also want to include a fair amount of extras within the piece so that it is made more realistic.

Character 1 is our 'Rich boy' we decided that we were looking for someone that is quite tall, and someone that looks after himself. This is because as a 'rich boy' he needs to have that hierarchy over the rest of the characters so if he has height then it helps portray this to the audience. We also wanted him to be white so that we could follow the stereotype of a rich, white, middle class man.

Character 2 this is our couple that we have in our piece, we have put them as one character as we want to audition them together. Its important for us that both actors work really well together and the audience can see a type of bond or chemistry. We are looking for a male and female that are roughly the same age of which we would like to be early 20's. We aren't looking for any type of ethnic background with these characters as long as they can act together really well then its fine.

Character 3 is our homosexual to begin with we were looking for a female that could play a gay person so that we could challenge the conventions of the soap opera and having something different to other soaps, however from doing some research it is better if we have a male that can act gay due to the stereotypes that there are the audience will be able to see his is portraying a gay character. We would like this character to be of average height and again early 20's in age.

Character 4 is our drunken character again we are going with the stereotypes of this character being a muscly and masculine man, we don't mind what height he is but he needs to be able to act drunk and look realistic for a soap opera and not slapstick comedy.

Character 5 is our jealous girl within the piece, this character is going to be in a number of story lines with our couple so she has to be able to work in conjunction with those. We would like this character to be quite tall so that the audience can see the hierarchy that she has, we would also like her to have longish hair and a very slim body so that she is a stunner for all the other male characters. By doing this it will help her character quite a lot and the audience will also be able to relate to her.

Character 6 is our pregnant girl, we are looking for a girl that is in her late teens so between the ages of 17 to 21. This character also has to look realistic as a young mum to be but at the same time she has to have that teenage look about her so that the audience can relate to her. We would also like her to be the kind of person that would be stylish and that could pull off the 'yummy mummy' look.

Finally we have also looked at the type of people we would like to cast for our extras, we need a mixture of male and female characters that are within the ages of 16 to 30 as this is the age group of our target audience so we want the audience to be able to relate to the story lines for people their own age.