Today was the real start to the course as Friday was the induction. We spent the day cracking down on the script of the short film – there’s no film without a script!

We decided on one out of the two ideas we had come up with on Friday and started discussing basic ideas and visuals. We came up with character names, traits and relationships. Once we had the basis of our plot and our characters jotted down we took the ideas to a script writing software called Celtx.

This piece of software was great to use as it had all need for the cast and crew integrated in the system; such as ‘action’, ‘scene -ext. or int.’ and ‘character’.

All we needed we’re the actors! As there are few of us we decided that the two males in the group would take the roles of the two male characters. As there are five females and three female roles needed we decided to call for an audition!

Here we are making the decision from the audition.

I was one of the casting directors and we had a our three candidates audition for each of the roles going. We gave them our printed script and had them go through the lines and then let them improvise to see how good they were for the roles going. By the end of the day we had our five characters ready for the next session.

Bring on the shoot!!