Research & Planning - Casting

Since we wish to make a narrative and performance based music video, we needed to find extra cast. Firstly, the main performance is the band themselves and in this way, they could mostly manage their own image. For the narrative we wish to create however, we needed ideally to have a girl who was similar looking to the lead singer. This is because we wished to create a narrative whereby the audience believed that the girl is in the relationship with a boy was infact the lead singer, however, it is revealed at the end that, in fact, the girl is not her. This had to be changed since we were unable to logitically fit in such a big narrative into the music video which is supposed to be mostly performance based. 

Also, we were unable to meet up with the lead singer to shoot some extra shots in order to make the narrative clear. In this end we ended up using myself, since it came to our attention that I look the most like her. As for the boy in the relationship, we decided to choose a friend who would feel comfortable acting in such a situation. It was important that we had a young cast since the band themselves are quite young and as such have a young target audience. The song itself also proves to be about a young first relationship.