The change of actors

Although we had originally planned for two of our friends Tom and Ali to be in this film, we were informed by them, days before we planned to have our first filming session, that they were both unable to make the session due to various requirements outside of school such as clubs. This was not ideal and was not what we wanted. The dilemma was that the film session still had to go ahead so that we could have enough time to have several film sessions before the deadline.

Thankfully, we were unable to contact another of our friends, Greg Smith(left), and he generously agreed to help us film our opening with us after we made sure that he was free on the correct days. We made Tom and Ali aware of our change of actor to avoid any future confusion.

Although we did originally plan for there to be two friends with Xiangyu when he walks up to the door, we discussed this issue and came to the conclusion that excluding this one role from the opening (changing from two actors to one) was not really a problem, as it would not affect any of our planning regarding the plot, shots etc.