Natasha Breen A2 MEDIA: Actors; Roles and Costume.

Within our piece we decided to go with the previously discussed storyline for which we see the artist as a separate actor to those who tell the story line. And the story, as that of a young partnership of an abusive alcoholic husband and his victimised wife.

The actors of which we have chosen to play these roles are as follows.

The artist, Miss Kelly Clarkson would be played by Jodi Grundy the actor needed to be a young fair headed individual who could work the pop rock appeal for this reason we believed Jodi a fellow member of our 3 man team would be perfect for the role. Jodi is 17 years old and fits the build for the role perfectly we felt she pulled off the glamourous look whilst also appealing to the male population as any artist should. I've already done a full blog post on the costume ideas for this character and therefore have not included it here. However i shall note that the image below shows evidence of the costume which we decided upon for our digipak and advert photo shoot but below this is our final outfit choice for our actual video footage.

The Abusive Alcoholic Husband. For this role we felt we needed a male figure who could come across as domineering and powerful, in order to be able to fulfil this role to the full potential which we hoped and had planned we needed an actor for the role with previous acting experience but we felt could fulfil the role without over acting and therefore making aspects seem unrealistic. Therefore we asked our friend Eddie Njenga if he would play this role, he had many previous credits for shows and for classes within the performing arts industry. Eddie Njenga is also 17 years old and currently attends StMarks sixth form for which he is head boy. We had used eddie for our preliminary task and therefore knew he would work to our request in order to produce an excellent final project. For Eddies Character we felt he should initially come across as a clean cut with a tidy appearance and dressed as a formal business man in a suit and shirt tie combo. Therefore we asked him to provide a suit of his choice along with a shirt and tie which as the video continued would become less formal as he scuffed up his appearance on entering his house as if making himself at home and letting go after a hard stressful day at work.

The Victimised Wife, for this role we felt we needed a woman who would be small and scrawny and who could give off the scruffy malnourished image. She needed to be a good actor in order to be able to provide the correct emotional appeal which we required from her character. For this reason we decided to work with Louise Lowe the actor we used previously for our preliminary task. She had worked well within our preliminary work and we knew she had previous acting experience and therefore we offered her the role. The costume for this character would involve a darkish outfit which was scrawny and minimal looking. In order to understand what we was looking for i used my previous inspiration of taylor swift's video mine and the role of the female to gain insight for our victimised wives costume.