Production Log - Actors

After discussions within our group about what are next steps are to be, we've decided that it could benefit our grade if we looked at the possibility of hiring professional actors. This would also help stick to our conventions of a Film Noir because the actors need to look somewhat older than teenagers because in classic Film Noir's they are always older. The website we found to hire actors is called Star Now, and can be accessed by clicking the words 'Star Now' below:
Star Now
However, after looking on Star Now we discovered that in order to fill out the forms necessary to hire professional actors you have to be over the age of 18.
This is a set back for us because we really wanted actors to play the roles of our characters for us, but after further discussions together, we've decided that we will play the roles ourselves. Heather will play the femme fatal, whilst I will play the everyman. Although this isn't exactly what we wanted, we are glad we have been able to fix the problem.
Our Film Noir has failed to meet one of the conventions because of the age of our characters, so it has now became a Neo Noir because of this. We will still do our best to match all of the other conventions of a Film Noir, but overall the genre has shifted slightly.

Reflection:
This was a major setback for us, but we managed to find a solution quickly to help fix this problem. From this, we all learnt that we have to expect the worst, and plan ahead in case anything wrong does happen. In this case, we weren't expecting something like this to happen but we managed to work our way round out. To fix this problem further, we could have looked at other possible websites for hiring actors, but we anticipated that the same issue would appear on each one because of our age, so we decided that taking the responsibility of acting on ourselves would be the better thing to do.