Characters and casting

Originally we looked at using one male character and one female character for our media product as we felt this would help reach out to the target audience as people are often interested in a media product especially if there is the opportunity for a romantic storyline to be created. However, when we looked into the issues of mental health more and we thought about the idea with more depth we decided that we wanted to use two male characters as the lead roles because we were made aware that it is males who are more likely to suffer from depression and keep it from their friends and family. Our media group wanted to raise awareness to this and we felt that by using two male characters who would then open up to each other about how they are feeling it would help approach the target audience in a way that they would also become educated about the situation.

Character Profiles:

Name: Charlie Frazer
Age: 18
Why we chose him: Charlie has a lot of acting experience and isn't shy on camera and this means that it is easier for our final media product to look more professional. He also attends the same sixth from as us, studying drama, and this meant that it was easy to sort out a time for us to film and will be easy to pick him up and get him to the location we wish to film.

Name: Callum O'Brien
Age: 17
Why we chose him: Callum is a student at a performing arts college which proves that he is a good performer and we hope this will increase the professional look of our music video. Once again he also lives fairly local to the members of our media group and this makes it practical for him to be in our music video.

Costumes and their meaning:

The main aspect of our idea for the music video is that we want the characters to be wearing white t-shirts and then there will be brightly coloured paint thrown onto the t-shirts to represent the depression and mental illness. Some days there will be more paint as part of the costume and other days there will be less paint as part of the costume and this symbolises how people with mental illnesses have some days where there feel worse than others. We are also looking at having the bottom half of their clothing dark colours, black, so that the white top and the paint stands out.

How will we source the costumes?

Each media group was giving an allowance to buy whatever they needed in order to make their idea for the media product work. As a result of this we were able to buy 10 adult sized white t-shirts and all of the brightly coloured paint with our allowance.