Casting

Casting

Ollie as "The hacker"

 

Ollie will play the hacker in my music video. During the music video above we will use gel to get his hair to look scruffy and unkempt to suggest a man slightly on the edge and clearly focused on his work rather than his own personal appearance. I have also dressed him up as a lab coat to convey to viewers that this character is a man of science. I have chosen Ollie because I find that he has the look of what some would consider a stereotypical geek i.e naturally wearing glasses and wearing braces. This could easily communicate to viewers a man of intelligence connoted by his glasses. however my actors braces may connote a rather youthful character, this can be avoided by not featuring shots of my actor or rather use shots of my actor smiling and juxtapose the youthful nature of the hacker to the dark lighting I plan to feature to make him look sinister which should convey a slightly comic mood one which I have desired to pursue in my initial ideas post. I also could use the lighting to reflect of my actors braces to make them appear more like fangs making the hacker much more monstrous.

Joe as "The Robot"

This is Joe and I will be casting him as the "robot" or the personification of the Burnin fever virus. During the music video Joe will wear a bright blue suit and the giant robot mask I have constructed with the intention of making his character more distinguishable, memorable and also seem very out of place with our "world". I have chosen Joe because he is quite tall which would do well in conveying the robot as an intimidating figure but he is also quite thin which should do well in connoting the robot as more of an alien figure.

Extras

Because my video features the mass spread of a virus I require a number of extras to film with to place more emphasis on the infected characters being a widespread group rather than just one person.

To do this I turned to social networking and put together a hub page for my music video; this mainly revolving around organising extras for various shoots. For such extras my priority is putting together a large group to make the infected characters intimidating as a group and to fill in roles for the infected victims.