Auditions - Wednesday 13th Jan

Today Mike, Dave, Kirk, Sam, Tim and I attended the auditions in order to oversee them and to help make decisions about the characters. We all set up the room, and I gave out scripts and character profiles, aswell as model release forms out to the auditionees. I also updated facebook and twitter with news about the auditions so people could be kept updated about how they were going. The auditions we had for each character are shown below:

Jake Wood - Josef James
Taylor - Grant Cole
Seth - James Amey, Tim Sykes, Elliot Hickey
Zeke - Tom Jakes
Megan - Angelica Thomson, Jennifer Green, Catherine Montgomery

We also have 3 minor roles, which some actors above may be asked if they want to act in if they do not receive the part they want to. These are TEACHER1, AGENT1 and FRIEND1 in the script. Tim filmed the auditions so we will have that to add to here tomorrow, but overall we got quite a lot of interest which is always good, and this gives us a choice for each character too. All roles will be decided tonight by Mke Shaw and news will be emailed to the successful auditionees. All in all things are progressing really well. After the auditions, Kirk, Mike and I had a discussion about what each audition was like, and shown Below is a brief synopsis of personally what I thought each actor was like.

Josef James - Very convincing, confident and knew the lines incredibly well - would make a good Jake.
Grant Cole - Also convincing and I think would play the part of Taylor well, once in costume etc.
James Amey - Confident and had the ability to feel comfortable, would make a great Seth or perhaps even AGENT1.
Tim Sykes - Less confident but lines said with a lot of effort and enthusiasm.
Elliot Hickey - Confident, good acting skills and could relate to the character well, would make a good Seth.
Tom Jakes - Very comfortable and convincing, also felt comfortable and knew the character well, would make a great Zeke.
Angelica Thomson - Nervous but nonetheless convincing, knew the character well and was able to relate to them.
Jennifer Green - Convincing, led the part of megan well, was also confident and showed good relation to the character.
Catherine Montgomery - Convincing and very confident - read the lines well.