R+P Post 16: Casting, costumes, hair and make-up

Because our characters are almost all young, college age students, we agreed that the best people to cast would be people from our peer group. We would need a total of 7 actors, so to prevent having too many people give up their free time to come to our shoot days, each member of our group decided to take an acting role, therefore keeping the number of actors other than us to a minimum. We kept diversity in mind when casting, as we wanted to represent many different identities from the teenage social group. Therefore, we cast people of a variety of different ethnicities and gender identities.

Here was the original cast:

'Raj Singh' - Shathushan Somasundaram
'DC Sean Mann' - Jack Edmondson
'Cherish Beauguarde' - Tiwa Antwi
'Lucy Patterson' - Mari Hamano
'Tyrone Beckham' - Sayo Ajoje
'Simon Smith' - Emilio Francischelli
'Officer' - Ekincan Kaya

Here was the casting, costume, and hair and makeup document we made in advance of the test shoot. We created this document so we could inform our actors what costume to bring and how we wanted their hair and makeup to look. Please note that this document has been updated to show the finished look of our characters from the main shoot with the changes we made since the test shoot, including our swapping round of actors for Cherish and Lucy.