Casting for "Me, Myself and I"

Casting for "Me, Myself and I"

 For the filming of our opening, only 7 characters make show (5 of them are played by the same actress of course).

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Vita Oldershaw as May Stanwell

Vita Oldershaw is a British actress, voice artist and Dancer. Who haveplayed Hermia and Puck in separate productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Betty in Oliver and Queen Cole in The Mummer`s Play.  Her film work includes educational English language videos and voice-overs for Immersive Education.

She played the lead, Dorace Damour in Heavenly Mane a short film which went to Cannes film festival (2010) directed by Oscar Oldershaw. She is also currently appearing in the feature film World War Z by Paramount pictures starring Brad Pitt, due to be released 2013.

Vita is a very competent dancer, having danced in professional operatic productions and at the Oxford Playhouse and Pegasus theatre. Her recent credits include dancing in Resolution! (2012) at The Place.

http://www.firstvoiceagency.com/vita_oldershaw.php

http://www.secondskinagency.com/profiles/tv_film_theatre/vita_oldershaw.htm

http://vimeo.com/13976756

 

 

Tamsin Heatley as Jackie Willis (Therapist)

British actress and voice artist Tamsin Heatley  has played roles in several popular drama series including Eastenders, Cracker, Casualty and The Bill. Her latest role was as Petula in the theater version of Dinner ladies. She has also been heavily involved in children’s television. Recent work includes Dirk Gentley`s Holistic Detective Agency for Radio 4, The mum in ITV’s Horrid Henry, and Little Bo in The Roly Mo show.

 

Other TV includes the role of Bella in the BBC’s BAFTA Award Winning Show The Tweenies, the voice of Baby Pom and Bessie in BBC’s The Fimbles and playing Grandma Baalwen in the Baaas for S4C. She also has numerous theatre credits to her name including plays at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, numerous productions with Theater de Complicite and Lumiere and Son.

http://www.tamsinheatley.co.uk/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1052583/

 

 

http://www.firstvoiceagency.com/tamsin_heatley.php

http://www.secondskinagency.com/profiles/animatronics_puppeteers/tamsin_heatley.htm

 

 
 Giles Oldershaw as the mistaken business man

Giles is an accomplished and versatile character actor, voice artist and Artist. His considerable experience covers mainstream drama productions including David Copperfield, Vanity Fair and The Mushroom Pickers and feature films, such as Shadowlands, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough, Dinotopia and Agatha Christie`s Marple. His most recent work includes Nulepsy a short film and the feature film World War Z by Paramount pictures starring Brad Pitt, due to be released 2013.Giles has also appeared in a variety of commercials: Midland Bank; Woolwich; Mc Ewan lager; Shreddies; Qualcast Lawnmowers; National Lottery Instants; BP & British Gas.Giles is extremely experienced in Theatre working for many companies including Lumiere and Son.

 

 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0646110/  

 

http://www.secondskinagency.com/profiles/animatronics_puppeteers/giles_oldershaw.htm

http://www.gilesoldershaw.co.uk/artwork /

From Sammie's scene:

Jasmine Gothard as Girl 1
 
Daisy Brunston as Girl 2

From Violets scene:


Chris Lam as Boy with camera 1

Ying-Wai Tse as Boy with camera 2

Erine Limbo as Girl 1

Valerie Bertumen as Girl 2

Shannen Allen as Girl 3

Maria Malmberg-Lovatt as Girl 4

 

Early Stages of "Me, Myself and I"

Early stages of "Me, Myself and I"

Collective work during the early stages production of "Me Myself and I"

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During the early stages of our production, after writing the plot we've designed a time frame for our
Collective work during the early stages production of "Me Myself and I"








Each frame indicating how we roughly we want each scenes to be like and how long we intend them to be.


We've also made a shooting schedule when we planned on filming and what scenes to film.







However, as it turned out; overall we only needed three days to film all scnese which were spread out during the holidays.




And what will roughly happen in our shots

Genre in "Me, Myself and I"

Genre in "Me, Myself and I"

Further research regarding  representation of disability and genre.

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21/01/13

                                           Genre in “Me, Myself and I”

 

Genre is a vital part in any production, whether if it’s for songs, books or films. A fundamental rule about genre (mainly speaking in films) whether it’s horror, drama or comedy etc. Is that there are things that are repeated which are alike to similar movies of the same kind but they also have their difference to make them stand out and be an individual. The repetition brings comfort to the audience and is often what dictates what genre the film may be as it can be compared to other films which it’s alike to. This doesn’t mean that genres are fixed, that they have a strict framework to work in. No, they have to adapt with time or they won’t sell.

Our film “Me, Myself and I”, doesn’t belong to a strict genre. We’ve purposely done this to expand are target audience and marketing. Our film can be put under comedy, drama, coming of age, romantic comedy etc. Part of the reason why this is because, our film is tackling the serious issue of DID. It’s not a material which can just be thrown into comedy. We want to illustrate how serious it is but also do it in a way where it won’t cause uneasiness to the audience; the material must be handled with care throughout the film as the last thing we want is to be accused of insensitivity. We inserted comedic aspect in the film to make the process of addressing the issue less daunting for the audience. Ideologically, the genres should offer some reassurance for the audience. As by labelling them which the following genres, it will give them some rough indication of what the film will be like. If we solely label the film as drama and the audience are given no indication that the film contains some comedic element, it can cause confusion, discomfort and possibly offend viewers. 

Different genres also attract different people. Our film’s really directed more at the female audience than the male. This is as the chosen genres for this film will naturally attract the effeminate side of the audience. So to be precise, our target audience are female, adolescents and over. 

To avoid being accused of insensitivity towards the mental disability, we’ve watched a few clips in which disability is represented. This is to also try to convey an accurate interpretation of those who suffer from DID. A film which really helped us get our grounding is the movie “Inside I’m Dancing” though it’s quite different in terms of the focus from our film since it’s about two physically disabled men, it still made us to try to make us handle the characterisation of May as close to reality as possible. Another character which we’ve studied is Becky Jackson from the American comedy “Glee”. Becky like Rory O’Shea suffers from a disability, but she has Down’s syndrome. What we’ve noticed after studying the characters is that all of them longed to be treated equally, to have the same rights as others despite their disability. This will definitely be a trait which we hall adapt in our film.

TV Drama Extract- Fingersmith

TV Drama Extract

18/01/13
MWE

Practice question on TV Drama Extract- "Fingersmith", representation of gender.