After our Green Light Production, Mark and I were happy with the response we got from everyone about our film. But, there were points that were made that we had to think about. One being about Abigail's age. Her character was originally meant to be a young child, but it was pointed out to us that it would be difficult to get a child to be in our film due to child labour laws. We'd need to have the parent, carer or a guardian of the child to be present at all times of filming and go through DBS checks as well as other legal requirements. This is a problem in our eyes because these precautions could affect our filming days in a negative way. Also getting a child to act could prove to be difficult due to them not understanding themes of the film.
So to combat this, Mark and I have taken on board the suggestion we make the character Abigail a bit older, roughly middle aged teenager (14-17 years old), but we would get an actor who was over 18 years old but looks younger to play the part. Doing this will make it easier for us to legally film the character in scenes, and also the actor will understand the themes in the film more, resulting possibly in a better performance for the actors.
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