the three people we had in our first few scenes where the mother, the childminder and the child, the
actors are as follows:
Mother: Louisa Campbell
Louisa is one of our team members mothers who also lives conviniently close to the school making it easy to shoot her scenes on weekends as the school is a good place for everyone to meet up out of hours to arrange to shoot our film. Shooting in Louisas house meant that as the person with the most appearances she could be made most comfortable in her own home and it would also be easy to reshoot scenes should we need to.
Childminder: Melissa Appiah
Melissa being a close friend of all team members was around alot whist we were all talking about themes of our production from the very beginning and demonstrated a keen intrest in helping us by taking part in our film. we scripted melissa as the childminder because she goes against the typical connotations of a peadofile i.e a young pretty woman. she also attends Graveney making it easy for us to get hold of her at lunchtimes and afterschool to shoot her scenes.
Child: Rhys Simms
Playing the child is Rhys Simms, a pupil attending our school and the brother of a team member. We decided to do this so that we could avoid using another young child who may have felt rather akward whilst filming not knowing any of the team very well at all. however Rhys, being the confident child that he is- made things alot easier for us to get on with.