Actors and our roles

Being heavily involved in film, especially in the creative, practical process is something I have always thoroughly enjoyed. In the first film of the year Soleless, I was given the opportunity to direct the film. Building on that experience with this film is something I would have loved to do, especially as I knew that all the members of the group were so committed. I would have been able to rely on members to perform the roles assigned to them. However, as I have had the opportunity at Directing, I felt it would only be fair at leaving the role to somebody else. It was Gus who decided to go for the directing role, Myles and Elspeth both decided to co-produce, Mark said that he wanted to be camera operator as it is where his passion lies, which meant that I was left with doing the sound. It is a role I have not done before, which meant that I did not mind doing it, as I would be learning another aspect of the practical filming process. I also have a passion in playing the Bass guitar, which meant that I would have an opportunity at writing and having complete control over the sound of the film.

Gus: Director

Myles + Elspeth: Producers and Stage management

Mark: Cameraman

Me: Sound and Music

This was an area that predominantly involved Myles and Elspeth, as they were both co-producers. Obviously we all had a say over who would be involved in the film, but it was these two that had the challenge of finding people who would play a role in our film. The typical avenues that they initially pursued involved approaching Chris Jury, and his Creative arts section. One problem Myles and Elspeth had with looking internally at Bath spa possibilities was the ages of the potential actors. Being police detectives, we were ideally looking at the mature actors, especially as we had achieved the great location in Bristol. Elspeth contacted the Theatre Royal and asked if there were any possible actors whom might be interested in our project. Luckily they responded positively and put a young actor called Ed Browning in contact with us. This was a breakthrough as he had done things on television before, and had worked on camera at a high professional level. Myles knew Duncan Roe and asked him if he was interested in playing a role in our film. A mature student called Guy was an older actor who was put in touch with us through Cris Drury. Now that we had our cast, we needed to decide who did what. We decided that Ed was the best option for our main character Luke Philips, and that Duncan should be detective Charlie Vincent, while Guy played the unstable Detective Eric Stansfield.

Duncan Roe

Ed Browning

Guy Smallwood