In my opinion, the cast list is quite an essential part of the preparation process. Therefore we needed to think throughly who we would like to have in our music video. We had to take the decision as a group and that is why each of us came up with suggestions and argumentation. It was of a great importance to choose the people that not only have the right look for our mod/indie image, but also playing musicians/singers. The problem was that most of the A2 students in our year have a limited number of videos to take part in, which makes it harder for us because our options are narrowed down. Therefore we thought of asking AS students whose teachers would be more willing to let them miss classes on the shooting day. At the end we decided that we will have two A2 and two AS students.
The look we were looking for was relaxed, easy-going, modern and good-looking because taking the fact that our theme is mod, the people in the video had to appeal to our target audience. On the other hand, we wanted them not to look too young, which made it harder for us to choose. Taking the experience from last year with the thrillers, I realized that it will be better if the people we choose are actors and musicians as well. However, the number of people in the school that have the right look, act and are musicians is not very high. Thus we thought that we obviously cannot have everything and we had to make a compromise. We agreed on four boys:
Phillip von Drechsel - Lead Singer
Merlin Talard - Bassist
Tom Evans - Guitarist 
Will Bodnar-Horvath - Drummer
Will and Tom are A2, which makes it more complicated because they are busier, but he compromise is that Tom can play the guitar, so we are relying on the fact that he will learn the chords and the live performance will look real and believable as possible. Will has taken part in two music videos last year, also playing the drums, which means that he already has experience. Philip who is the lead singer, is given the song to learn and Merlin as well.
Feedback from our teacher:
We needed to discuss the cast list with our teacher Jason who gave us the green light under under the condition that Will would be allowed by his teachers to take part in our music video:
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