Casting problems and solution

The problem:

After writing up the original story boards we deliberated over the cast of for the video. We decided we only needed two external people to help us in the video by being actors because we didn't have enough men to play all the male roles. This ended up with Becky and Elliott liasing with Luke Doyle and Kurt Storey. While both had agreed to help us from the start we encountered a problem very close to shooting in that Kurt changed his mind and pulled out of the project. This left us down a person that we really needed in the video. Panicking a little we all started branching out and asking anyone who could look the part of  punk. Alex Mccormick was our next choice, alongside Joel Senior. However both of them had to decline even closer to the video shot, leaving us completely without the part casted.

The Solution:

Since we had run out of time and options and had been let down by a number of people our only choice left was to change the actual video to accomodate the loss. As such we removed the camp male character and replaced him with a woman and built a comedic scene around this hurriedly. Becky, whilst being fantastic at media, didn't want to be in the video whatsoever so it was very brave of her to agree to do it. In return we built the joke scene around her to retain her dignity, she didn't want to be portrayed as a lesbian or in a negative light of any kind, so we agreed to build the scene in those rules and we drew up a newer story board for this scene to accomodate these factors. The largest problem caused by this change meant we had lost potential footage in that the camp man had at least two scenes that could have lasted up to 20 seconds each. This hugely hindered the amount of footage we could have put into the final result. To account for this we wrote up a new scene for the nerd and story boarded that out. We also gave one of the camp mans scenes to the punk because the joke could carry over without losing comedic value, albeit changing the tone of the scene slightly.
Altogether we hope these quick revisions won't affect filming too much and that we will still ahve enough footage for everything.