Our Cast

Daniel
Daniel is the lead singer of the band we are promoting, smaller than you. He appears at the end of our music video. We have chosen Daniel because he is in the band, can skateboard and promotes the look the band are going for.


Jasper
Jasper plays the bass in Smaller than you. Similarly to Daniel, Jasper conforms to a conventional skateboarder look. He can also skateboard.


Jake
Jake is the drummer in Smaller then you and has been skateboarding for years. We have chosen him as our main character for the music video. We know he looks confident and good when he is being filmed because we used him for our AS coursework last year. He has a recognisable look and this is important because the audience need to recognise him as the boy from the beginning at the end of the music video.



Martha
Despite not being able to skateboard, we chose Martha because she is typical to the female look we wanted. It was important to us to find someone who looked feminine but was not sexualised as we wanted to challenge these conventions. When we were looking for people to cast, Martha's enthusiasm and commitment to helping us stood out and we knew that she would give a good performance.



Chris



Ross

We found Chris and Ross through someone that works with rachael. They are experienced skateboarders, have filmed in other skateboard videos and have a wide knowledge of good locations to film skateboarders in. They can also do more trcks than our other cast mambers and so can make the video more exciting.

Also appearing:

Hannah



and Izzi

Hannah and Izzi are in our media group and therefore are very reliable and both know exactly what is required (in both action and costume).


*All of our cast are between the ages of 15 and 25 because this is the same age group as our target audience and this therefore creates realistic ideologies for them.
*We decided not to hold auditions because last year it took us a lot of persuading people to appear in our films and we felt people wouldn't feel keen enough on appearing in the music video to come to our auditions. We also felt it was a high priority that we had a reliable cast that would attend when we needed them. We knew our cast that are band members would be reliable because they are excited to get a proffessional quality music video.
* All of our cast members our smiling or are being humourous in their photos. This reflects the personalities that we wanted within our cast members as we plan our video to be funny and lighthearted and this should be reflected in the actors.

Characters/artists/celebrities that have influenced the image we had in mind for our cast members:



Alex, the protagonist in both the novel Paranoid Park (2006) and the film (of the same name(2007)) . Alex is a 16 year old skateboarder who struggles with being a teenager and accidently kills a security guard. The majority of the film is set in illegal skateparks.
The book is classed as 'young adult' and the film also has a target audience of young adults (15-25). This coincides with our target audience for Smaller Than You. The film chose a 16 year old actor to play the main character to appeal to this age group. This shows for our film to be successful and appeal to this age group we too should choose a young male (15 to 18 years old) to star as our main character.



Travis, a character featured in the sub-plot of hit american teen movie Clueless (1995). Travis is passionate about skateboarding and is the character that provokes the most humour within the movie (something that we want to include in our music video) and gets the new, popular girl at the end of the film, in which their is a long scene of Travis at skateboarding trials. Though Clueless is a older film than Paranoid Park, this also shows young male skateboarders appeal as characters to a teenage or young adult audience.



Bam Margera, proffessional skateboarder (and coincedently music video producer). Bam has his own show 'Viva La Bam' on MTV. Although Bam (30) is older than our target audience, he appeals to young adults and teenagers. His show is shown on MTV, which targets this age group, and is shown at the same times as programmes such as 'My Super Sweet Sixteen'. This shows that although Chris and Ross are older than the other cast members, it is their attitude that will make them appear young and appeal to 15-25 year olds.