Casting was one of the greatest challenges that our group had to overcome. At first we would have preferred everything to be as realistic as we could, we originally were going to have a basketball team use our practice scenes, it would have been the real Cypress Bay basketball team. We believed that this would make the movie appear more real because they already possess the uniforms, chemistry and the actual experience of playing together. It was strictly prohibited to record at school and that just could not happen to me and my partner due to lack of time since we both are in full schedules at school and could not waste instruction time. It was not realistic to skip classes to shoot and it would have left us behind in terms of schoolwork.
Due to this that we were forced to alter our initial plan entirely. We had to have our other guy friends come and replace the basketball players in their positions rather than getting the official team involved. This solution was successful but it brought other problems. They needed to know how to position, to play naturally on the field and to make the scenes appear as real despite the fact they are not in the team. This also required us to have schedules that suited all our schedules after school which involved a great deal of organization by having to use group chats and constantly communicating with every single person.
The same was with the role of the girls. We initially considered having the real Cypress Bay cheerleaders in the film to make the scenes more authentic and school spirited. Unluckily, they were not given a chance to film after school either. This presented another challenge since we needed to do most of our shooting out of school hours. I chose to fill one of the positions, as well as two of our close friends. This required a rapid change in choreography and costume arrangements and ensuring that the energy remained natural.
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