Casting

The casting for our opening was fairly easy to do as we only have two actors in our opening sequence.

The first actor, who will be the one who is in the entire opening, is the main character of Naomi. For this character we wanted the stereotypical girly girl look, e.g. someone with blonde hair, who wears skirts, likes girly colours like pinks and reds, wears make up and wears high heels. "Naomi" also needs to have a strong personality and be quite vain. We drew inspiration from characters such as Mini from Skins, Naomi from 90210, Elle from Legally Blonde and Caroline from The Vampire Diaries.

Mini (Skins)

Naomi (90210)

Elle (Legally Blonde)

Caroline (The Vampire Diaries)

Unfortunately we didn't know many blonde girls who also had this kind of look but luckily a member of our group, Phoebe, would have been able to pull it off with some makeup - although she is ginger, not blonde. We decided that it would be best for Phoebe to play this part since the main character would need to be in the whole opening and that would mean that whoever plays the part needs to be able to dedicate a lot of time to it. Since this is also Phoebe's project she would be willing to spend as much time as it takes. Phoebe would also be good for this part as she would be able to act quite sassy and vain like the character needs to be.

The other main character that appears in the opening sequence is the character of Aiden. Aiden is the typical good looking college boy who gets all the girls even though he is not a very nice guy. He is the bad boy type and has the stereotypical look. Some of the characters we drew inspiration for Aiden from  were Robbie from Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Freddie from Wild Child, Peter from The Amazing Spiderman and Finn from Jacksgap.

Robbie (Angus, Thongs) 

Freddie (Wild Child)

Peter (Spiderman)

Finn (Jacksgap)

For this character we had two people in mind that we know, Daniel and Theo. They both fit the character profile as they are both sporty and look like they could be bad boys too. We decided to approach Daniel first since Theo is also a Media Studies student so we figured that he would probably be very busy filming his own opening sequence, plus we found out that he is going on a skiing holiday during the time we need to film - lucky duck!. Lucky for us Daniel said that he would be able to do it so we have cast him as Aiden and since he wont been to be involved in very much filming it should not be a problem.

Another character that appears in the opening sequence is Naomi's pet! After contemplating whether to have an animal in our opening or not it was a unanimous decision that we would give it a go. Although we had heard that animals are incredibly hard to work with and though it would be a challenge, we thought it would look very good if Naomi could have a pet dog. Dogs, especially small ones, are notoriously associated with girly girls, being carried around in their handbags, etc - rather than a cat which is associated with a 60 year old crazy woman who has 20 cats and lives alone ... Some of the most famous "girly" dogs being:

Bruiser (Legally Blonde)

Boy (High School Musical)

Lucky for us Carolina has a dog that is small and fluffy and exactly like the type you would see in a chick flick so we will use him, his name is Ollie!