Music Video Planning - Casting and Performers

In our music video we intend to use the band who's song we are using featured in the video itself. Both us and the band agreed to this as they could then reuse the finished music video if they liked it, for their own personal use. They have said that we can meet up halfway which could either be in Worcester or in Birmingham, as my partner Sophie can drive, it shouldn't be a problem.
We both originally wanted to have the band featured as most "Indie" bands tend to be, meaning that we will then have some redundant and traditional aspects of the music video. And seeing as they already have the "indie" rock band style, this would be a more effective and simple way of featuring a band.

The band members are;
Jape


Burgle

Shanksy

Action


Character Performers/Actors
As well as featuring the band, we also wanted to have some actors/actresses to play parts of some "chavs". As we described before, this is what the song initially made us think of, and as we are going to challenge this stereotype, we wanted to find people that would seem versatile in several roles.

Carlo De Simone - main leader
As "chavs" are known to hand around in gangs, we thought it necessary to feature a main leader for the group. As Carlo is quite tall, and has a larger and more intimidating look about him, we thought he would be ideal for it. We also think that Carlo would be able to pull off several looks; formal and also "chav". I think he would be ideal as a main performer as he isn't shy, he has agreed to be in the video, and he has said that he is willing to give up time to be in our video.


Other Cast
These will also play part of a gang in our music video, however they will not be the main ones. I think they are well suited for the parts as they have agreed to be in it, they aren't shy, they're quite outgoing, and I think that they would be able to pull of versatile looks.
Luke Clayton

Paddy James

Georgia Ashmore

Leanne Pugh

Lee Price