Filming: Recruiting Actors

 As you probably already know, our project is going to be about a horrific camping trip.  So, it is necessary to create the setting as well as we can.  We already plan to use a tent to make it look realistic.  But, that is not the only thing that a campsite needs.  A usually overlooked aspect of campsites is that there are mostly more than one person at each of them.  For our film, we need at least two.  I say "at least" very sparingly, however.  This is because I only mean it in the sense that we need one person to die and one person to live to have the movie continue passed the opening.  But, that wouldn't be very entertaining or realistic in a movie.  So, we need more actors.  Not only do we need more actors to make the opening appear more realistic, but also in order to make the campsite look more populated.  In our script, we included 4 characters.  I will be playing one of the characters.  Specifically, I will play the person who discovers the dead body in the woods.  My partner, Nicholas, will play another role.  That leaves two more roles.  So, to fill in the roles, Nicholas and I asked our friends if they would be willing to help us film.  They said they would be happy to and will be there when we film.  One of them took AICE Media Studies last year and will be able to offer us valuable insight and knowledge.  We already have a good plan for filming, but his advice will help us iron out the rough edges.  He will be playing the role of the victim.  We assigned him this role because he has acting experience and acting dead is a hard task.  Especially since we will probably take the shot multiple times, it is important for the dead person to have acting experience.