Changes in Idea

As we experienced much difficulty with our actor that we originally planned to use, we decided to change this. We were extremely disappointed that we wouldn’t use our original actor as he was aesthetically perfect for the part; however he could not deliver the kind of acting we wanted so we decided that we would change our actor to someone who we knew could defiantly act. We needed this person to also be reliable and comfortable with acting in front of the camera too. We finally came to the decision as a group that Gabi would be the new actor in the sequence, as we spent a long time trying to think of a male actor; though none of us knew one who would defiantly be able to deliver good acting. Due to our schedule running tight we decided this would also be the most practice idea too.
We realised that changing the gender of the character could cause a big change in the overall outcome of the film but we thought that maybe this could show a different side to the film and could break conventions. We realized this could be too far in the fact that it is very un likely that there are quite a few female ex boxers but we wanted to portray our film clearly through aesthetics of location and through costume too. We still felt that our idea would work even if the character is changed to a female.
We then had to consider costume for Gabi to be dressed in; however we found this easy as we wanted it to be very similar to the costume of which our original character had worn. In the end we decided for the main part of the sequence, she would be dressed in a black hoodie and grey trackies and then also black trainers all of a typical work out style. We also had to consider hair and make-up and we decided obviously no make-up as we wanted Gabi to look quite tom boy-esque. We also decided for her to have her hair up and back off her face. We felt that these changes were appropriate and would still fit very well with the sequence aesthetics and idea we wanted to create.
We also had to consider the music in the opening too in the end we decided not to use Shakespeare - Akala as we felt this was suited to a male actor. When we tried the sequence with the original song and Gabi we decided that it didn't work. we then did some more research into songs that could suit it, searching songs from Adulthood. in the end we came to the conclusion of using Reach by Skrein as this was more suited to the aesthetics and to our character and what she's doing.
We then thought about the fight scene of which before it would be two males having a fight. When we decided to have Gabi as our main actor, we also as a group agreed that Katie was to be the other actor in the fight scene as it would be odd having a female and a male fighting. This change was able to tie the film in and presented us with a sense of relief as we had been struggling all along to find two new characters. This way we all knew each of the characters were reliable and what we wanted to achieve. This was extremely beneficial to us as we would then be able to carry out the filming whenever we wanted and go back to re-filming at any time instead of having to organise and hassle other actors.