Due to the fact that I am filming the young footballer from when he is a young child to his late teenage years, I will need to have 2 actors for my main character role. The first actor will have to be aged between 7-10 as the first part of the trailer will show the main character as a child playing 5-a-side football with his childhood friends. However, I would have to get consent from the actors' parents and the actor himself in order for me to be able to film him for my biopic trailer. Ideally, the two actors playing the main character would have to look similar, despite being different ages, to make the biopic trailer seem believable and true to life. For the 2nd actor, they have be a male aged 16-18 as in the later part of the biopic trailer, he is coming through youth team football. I have thought that the actor best for this role would be Rossi Salvatore as I need someone athletic and skillfull to play the role of a young up-and-coming footballer. This will also be the part where he meets another young promising player coming through the youth system. He ends up befriending him and they also become teammates later on in the biopic. I feel like the target audience would be able to connect with and relate to the main character as he is a young male trying to be successful.
The 2nd actor that I will need for my biopic short film is also someone between the ages of 16-18. This is because I need them to play another young player coming through the youth system alongside my main character. They will also have to have good footballing ability but it is not essential as they are only the secondary character in the trailer. Furthermore, the other youth player/friend of the main character will only appear during the youth football part of the trailer and the later stages of the biopic trailer. This is because the main character first meets the secondary character when they are starting youth team football. Therefore, the main character will be playing with different kids, which are his childhood friends, when he is a young child as he hasn't yet met the secondary character. The actor will also have to be able to represent a strong friendship between him and the main character.
The 3rd actor that will be in my biopic short film will have to be a female aged between 17-18. This is because I need a teenage girl to play the love interest of the young aspiring footballer.
The 4th actor that will be in my biopic will have to be a male aged between 30-45. This is because I need an older person to play the youth team coach as they will be a character that gives the young players tough love and guidance through out the youth team football part of the trailer. This is up until the 2 main characters get offers to do trials for a Premier League club due to their excellent form with a youth team. He then wishes them good luck in the trials and gives them his goodbyes. I feel this would be an accurate but stereotypical representation of a youth team coach and it would allow teenage boys that have played for football to be able to relate to what is being portrayed in my biopic.
The 5th actor in my biopic trailer will have to play the manager of the Premier League club that the 2 main characters will end up playing for. He will have to be a strong motivator and someone that inspires the players to work hard for their team and produce great performances that will help the whole team to succeed. He will appear in the later parts of the trailer when the main characters are playing at an elite level.
Other smaller parts such as the main character's childhood friends, youth team mates and team mates at the Premier League club will be played by anybody that can be available at the time. Extras such as the crowd at Premier League matches and real-life players will be super-imposed in the short biopic film. I feel like having real-life players would allow the audience to see some of their favourite footballers and making the short biopic film seem realistic.
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