Our Cast

Rosie Goddard

Rosie Goddard

To play the part of Rosie, our protagonist, we cast Rosie Goddard. Rosie is a 5 foot 6, slim, fair skinned female, with long light brown hair. She is also quite natural looking, and pretty. These characteristics make her a suitable person to play the role, as stereo-typically speaking her characteristics connote kindness, innocent and generally nice, which are all things we aim to make our character be. 

Rosie has had experience in acting too, recently she starred in a film named 'The Knife That Killed Me'. We thought our trailer would be a great opportunity for her to use as part of her acting portfolio, and it would enhance our trailer as the acting would be more professional. In addition to this, because she is more of an experienced actor, it would take less time to film her scenes as she wouldn't necessarily laugh or be embarrassed as much as other more amateur actors would. Generally her experience would make her over all quicker than someone of less experience, therefore making our shoots more time efficient.  

Eleni Gregoriou

To play the younger version of Rosie, we chose Gabby's neighbour, Eleni. It proved to be quite difficult to find a young girl who was willing to play this role in our trailer, this is because collectively we didn't know many young girls. We didn't really have a specific criteria that this girl had to fit other than being young, therefore didn't need to be particularly picky with our choice, which of course made it easier to cast someone. It is also very convenient for us as Eleni lives next door to Gabby, who's house is one of our filming locations. This means that Eleni is easily accessible, and with her being young, has a reasonably clear schedule, which means she is available when we need her to be. As she is only young, we asked her mother for permission, she said yes and was very positive and excited about it. 

Gabby described Eleni as a performing arts kind of person. She has starred in a school production, and has written a couple of her own songs where she sings and plays guitar. This is useful as she obviously enjoys performing and therefore is eager and willing to play this role. Also, with her being young, outgoing, and used to performing, it means she will be less awkward and embarrassed and therefore be easier to work with than someone who's not. 


George Bury

George plays the role of Rosie's boyfriend. He isn't needed for many scenes and doesn't have a significant role in the production. When we mentioned our production to him, and the role available to him, he showed enthusiasm and seemed eager to fill the role. He is a confident person who has a talent for performing. He has hosted charity evenings, acted numerous roles in school productions, and also studies drama. 




For the role of the antagonist

Initially, we wanted an old woman to play the role of the antagonist. We emailed an amateur acting club asking if they had anyone willing to play the role. We didn't get a response and therefore had to use someone else. The email we sent them is shown below.


 From: Francesca Roncoli <francescavroncoli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:52 PM
Subject: Actors wanted
To: info@summerseatplayers.co.uk

We are 4 A level students from Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School producing a thriller trailer. In this trailer we hoped to have an actor to play the part of an older woman who will act as the villain. One member of our group has visited your theatre and speaks highly of your productions. We would appreciate if you could get back to us as we hope to start filming within the next upcoming weeks. There would be no speaking in the part just practical acting, so it would not take up a lot of time to rehearse, we could send scripts at a later date for a better understanding.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Frankie, Gabby, Alexia and Rosie.

Layla Khan

Layla was chosen to play the part of Evelin Crick, the antagonist. She is a 5ft2 female student at BRGS, which is useful as she is easily accessible. Also, she has dark features which correspond with the image we are trying to capture in her character.

Layla studied drama at GCSE where she achieved an A*, meaning that she is not an amateur as such when it comes to acting. Experience means that her scenes will take less time to film as she is more professional and serious compared to someone who hasn't had experience who may waste time laughing, and who may not give their best due to the embarrassment they may feel.

Eleni's Mom:

We cast Eleni's mom last minute, this is because we didn't have anyone to play this role, and she openly offered. This was useful because although she had little acting experience, she made Eleni feel comfortable. This comfort dramatically helped Eleni's performance, as she no longer felt as shy or embarrassed as she may have been without her mother.