R+P Post 16: Casting, costumes, hair and make-up

We cast suitable actors for each role and decided exactly how they would look to create believable characters that fully lived up to the expectations of our story and representations. We created a list, encompassing actors, their costumes, and even their hair and make-up where relevant, to keep track of the larger-than-average amount of characters our project has, as well as all the little details needed to create their finished look, and the changes made to these details as we developed our ideas.

Our complete character, casting, and costume list, split into four images. Click each of them to enlarge.

Another benefit of the list was that we could simply give a copy to each of our actors and they could fulfil some of the requirements such as clothing and make-up, and tell us what we had to provide for them.

Although each character went through a few iterations, all the little changes to costume we made, such as adding jewellery to Cherish, were tracked by the list. When we had trouble casting, such as when an actor dropped out and had to be re-cast, or two actors swapped roles based on performance in the test shoot, the list reflected that. In the end however we learned that keeping track of everything related to the characters meant we always knew exactly who and what we needed on set to ensure each character lived up to their role.