Here is our casting development to find a suitable candidate for our music video, a continuation of the "Screen Test" blogpost. This post is written by me (Chelsea).
MAIN STAR
As mentioned in the "Screen Test" blogpost, our main star would be a female, who is feminine yet confident and bold, as well as comfortable being on camera. We considered the following candidates to be our main star:
Keiva & Valen
Unfortunately we were unable to do an individual screen test for Keiva and Valen due to their busy schedules, therefore both of them are the first people we cross out from our list. Busy schedules could also be an issue, particularly if we need to spend a lot of time with the main star herself during later filming.
Louisa
We had time to record Louisa's screen test after school. Rara will record her short screen test as she is the only person in our group available. Our screen test will basically consist of having them lipsync a few lines of the song, especially the chorus, and then letting them act anyway they like or freestyle. This will allow us to see how at ease and natural they are on camera. Below is Louisa's screen test result that we conducted on November 14th, 2024.
Given that she only sang one line from the song, the screen test above might be too short. Nonetheless, we appreciated that she made lyric-related motions, including smiling at the camera and making the telephone gesture with her hand. We won't be able to see how comfortable she is on camera from this clip alone, but we'll leave it this way for the moment until we've conduct Cinta's screen test.
Cinta
On December 11th, 2024, we conducted Cinta's screen test after school, and thankfully all of us were present during the day. Her screen test also follows the same procedure as Louisa's. Below is a behind the scene picture of the screen test as well as the results. Before the screen test began, Audrey and Chelsea provided supervision and instructions, Rara played the song, and Kalista recorded.
It's impressive that she was able to memorise so many lines from the song, considering that we had only played it for her that day and she wasn't too familiar with the song. On camera, she makes incredibly effortless and natural gestures that give the impression that she is truly feeling the music rather than just lipsyncing.
Final choice
We all agreed that Cinta's screen test had a lot of good things to say based on all of the results! Since Cinta fits the majority of our criteria, we ultimately decided that she should be our main star. Given that she is also a singer, working with her would be simpler because she is already at ease in front of the camera and radiates charisma. We're hoping that everyone can work cooperatively to schedule any necessary extra meetups or shooting hours. We also gained consent from Cinta as well, and she was excited to be working with us on this project!
MAIN LOVE INTEREST
We were looking for our main artist's main love interest, who would appear to be an "attractive toxic boyfriend" by portraying him as a cold and toxic guy in some scenes that only reveal his face. We will evaluate them based on their appearance and real-life personality (if they are cooperative to work with) as there are no dialogues for their role. He should have a clean, tidy appearance, a sharp jawline, intense eyes, and preferably tall. For acting, he should appear confident while yet emotionally unavailable. We thought of two guys for our main love interest, we of course asked for consent as well from them.
Unfortunately, Saka declined to appear in our music video with no reason mentioned, he just preferred to not join and we respected his decision. So we are only left with Darrel. It took some time to explain everything and convince him to accept this role, but in the end, he sincerely wants to join and act the role as the main love interest.
It turns out that he and Cinta, our main star, get along well and had good chemistry off-screen as well, so they performed professionally and showed no signs of awkwardness while filming. They had fun while filming, and we think they both did a great job!
SIDE CHARACTERS (GUYS)
- Turah Krishna
- Bagus
- Saka (Rejected)
- Louis
- Agung
- Ryan Tjandra
Here are some of the supporting characters (guys) that will act as a potential (failing) love interests of our main star. In order to make them feel more comfortable on camera, we will reassure them that just their backs are shown in their main scenes, which excludes any of their faces. The most of them are from the Media Studies class and are also from the earlier screen test video in this blogpost, in which they seemed enthusiastic and enjoyed performing and being in front of the camera.
Besides of these guys, we also need more / extra supporting characters during our production process so that we don't show the same guys again. Fortunately, there is no need for a screen test because physical appearance is not the most important factor since their faces will not be shown, and most of the guys voluntarily agree to to do so, their names are listed below:
- Bagas
- Haresha (Cancelled)
- Nathan (Cancelled)
- Neils
MAIN ARTIST NAME
We did a discussion as a group on what to name our main artist, below is our list:
We all agreed to go for "CINTA KYLE"
Cinta, is our main artist's real name, which literally means "love" in Indonesian (love also is our main theme for our media product). Hence, we think that the name "CINTA" suits the best. Since our intended target audience are mainly South East Asians (including non-Indonesians), they may not know what Cinta means right away - but once they do, it becomes a name with secret meaning which we think our target audience or fans would love to discover. We think that the combination of Cinta and Kyle is easy to remember by people and sounded like a real pop star name. It also mirrors both of her personas: Cinta is more to the romantic, emotional and soft side while Kyle sounds more sharp, bold (this shows her character transformation, from soft or lovergirl to a confident icon, just like our music video concept).
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Screen test is crucial, especially for our main star, to make sure they meet our expectations and meet the criteria we decided upon in order to ease our shooting. The guys we select as the main and supporting love interests are also eager to help and coopertate on our project. Because they performed so well on camera and made the filming process fun, we had no regrets at all about casting them. Our first choice for casting has always been Cinta and Darrel, and we think they met our expectations. Finally, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to them for volunteering their time and effort to participate in this project.
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