Pre-production: Chosen Artists & Research

We were specifically looking for an actor to be the lead singer to represent the main artist from The Jacques band. Our initial idea was to have our chosen young artist imagining herself/himself with their friends as a band performing lively. We needed a suitable child actor, to respresent and play the role of the lead singer 'Fin' from The Jacques.
It was fairly easy to find our artists to act and play the role of the band. Our group member immediately came with idea to use her sister in our music video. Her name was Martha. Her appearance was perfect for the lead singer role. She had identical looks/ she looked very similar to the main singer 'Fin'. This could connote that the actor could be Fin as a child, that then grows up and become part of The Jacques band member. This was a high advantage as she was perfect actor to play the main artist part.
Fin has long blond hair that is most of the time covering his forehead and blue eyes. Similarly, our chosen actor has dark blond hair and hazel/green eyes. To be precious her hair is similar length to Fin's hair.

It is important to get at least the main artist looking like Fin the lead singer, as in our music video our lead singer will be driving the narative. We needed to present most of the band as who they are, from what we have and access to. This will allow our audience to recognise our artist looking like Fin at his early teen-age, as well as meeting the iconography of the band (such as having the lead singer in front and centre of the band, also presenting the main artist more throughout the music video).

We also decided to find an actor that could represent and look like the drummer in The Jacques band. We were luckily to find Matthew, who is a close friend to our chosen lead singer. He looks very similar to the main drummer from The Jaqcues band, that there was a clear resemblance between the both. He also had basic knowledge and skills of drumming which is perfect for his chosen role.

Lastly, We need last two actors to represent the rest of The Jacques band, that would play the guitarist and base guitarist. Two girls friends to our chosen artist came forward and offered to be part of the band in our music video. Despite the fact that The Jacque band members are all males. However, we didn't have a problem to use the girls to represent the rest of the band members.