I did write a full and more detailed blog around casting my main actress, Ella, as there was more reasons as to why I chose to cast her in particular and how I felt she could portray the role of the main character. As well as casting her, I also had to cast another 3 additional actors for the role of my cult members during the nightmare sequence, however their roles are a lot less important and who played these characters really didn’t matter as their faces would be covered and voices altered.

I ended up casting my mum, dad and brother as I knew they would be around in the same place and at the time I needed to film this nightmare sequence and since they only had one line, they didn’t need any kind of acting skills etc. As long as all 3 of them would fit in the cloaks, which I bought with mum so that I could be sure they fit, and could follow very basic and simple directions then they were perfect for these roles. There isn’t much else I can say about why I casted them other than what I have already mentioned, they took instructions and directions very well and I am very happy with the contribution they added to the film and am very happy with the way the cult members were portrayed in my film.

I wrote a blog not too long back on the actors documents which shows the call sheets they all received along with a copy of the script and shot list; in that blog there is also the evidence of their signed contributor release forms.