Introducing the actresses

Meet the Cats

The cast for our short film is made up of different people in Eugenia's gym. For our main girl, we have three people, one girl from the lower levels (younger version) middle levels (the middle version), and someone from the higher levels (older version). We also have a few extras like the main characters' friends and coaches. For each friend, we also have a little middle and older version, 

For this short film given that we will be filming younger kids, and during gym hours Eugenia did inform the people who work in the gym, teammates, coaches, and other trainees, and personally talked with the parents of the younger kids to get their consent to film their children. For the parents, she printed a poster with information about our film and when we will be filming. This way we make sure to get the parent's permission for filming their kids.  

One thing we still aren't sure about is the names of the characters. We aren't sure if we should keep the actors' names, and just used theirs for their characters, or come up with a name for each of the characters. It all depends on the actor's choice if they want their name connected with this piece/be used for the short film. If we do decide to make up names for the characters I do want to try to come up with names with hidden meanings that are related to our piece. I feel like doing this would make the piece a bit more meaningful. 

Here the followings are our actors and the role they are playing... 

She is one of our littles that would be playing the younger version of a character. Specifically, she is playing the younger version of our main character. Hence, she would be the main character at the beginning of the piece. For this, we wanted to show a happy, carefree part of gymnastics and the best and easiest way to do so is to include kids, given that they are yet to experience the hardships of the sport.   

Our second little one would be played by her, who would be playing the little version of the best friend. She would be the reason the main character believes she is betters than everyone given that she would boost her confidence, by being not good enough. We wanted to make sure to include a best-friend relationship to show friendships in gymnastics and how it could help or worsen one self esteem. 

 

she is one of our middle actresses, for the friend character. She would be there to start supporting the main character through her struggles. But also would outshine the main character with her talent, as during this time the friends are starting to become better than the main character, which creates pressure on her. 

 

She is another one of our middle actors, she will be playing the middle version of the main character. she will be shown in the middle, so when the sports start to get harder, pressure and expectations increase. With her is where we'll see the start of the dislike of the sport. 

 

She is one of our side characters who would play the main characters' friends. There would be fewer scenes with her given she is a side character but we still decided to include her given that she would have an important role. She would be helping the main character through her struggles and at the same time one of the people the main character would compare herself to. 

She is playing our main character as her older self (present). She would be the main character shown at the end of the film. She would be the one that shows all the hardships of gymnastics and the results of the pressure and expectations everyone around her has because of her sport.  

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