Auditions

Due to the withdrawal of both of our characters from the shooting of the video, we decided to find new people who would fit the criteria. Thus, my partner and I decided took it upon ourselves to hold auditions for the role of the girl, mainly because the storyline is told from the girl’s perspective; hence we have to make sure that the actor playing the girl is fit for the role.

I was not able to be there for the actual audition due to circumstances but believed my partner would do fine with actress. Before the audition, she made sure to explain the storyline of the video, as well as the emotions of the main character. Because the storyline touches on an extremely touching subject – the breakup of a couple – She had to make sure that Aleksandra could easily slip into the role of a heartbroken girl. To do so, we talked about relationships, and presented her to the 5 stages of loss (Denial/Isolation, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance).

After discussing about the storyline, the  lyrics of the song were presented to her that we are going to use for the music video. To get her used to it, Alex decided to sing with her in order to make her feel more relaxed about the situation.

The final part of the audition was to get  Aleksandra to act out the opening of the video, which consists of the protagonist packing her bag and going out of the room. Although that was the most we had time to fit in to the audition, we found that she suited the role, mainly because of her facial expressions.

After this my partner had shown me the video of the audition in which she recorded Aleksandra and i believed she was perfect for the role.