James Shaw = Rupert
James Shaw is a well-spoken British born individual. His outlook towards life is very unique and this is why he fits Rupert’s role within our film. Rupert within our film wears blue gloves and he is considered to be the ideal student who does his work and values his education over his social life hence the reason why he cant wear the same colour gloves as Fiona. His nerdy look is well represented through the actor of James Shaw due to his physical presentation and body language. Rupert’s unconventional attractiveness would also be well represented by James Shaw due to his innocent schoolboy look and weird haircut. The fact that James Shaw is also from a white background plays an in-significant role in our play, as gloves are a symbol of race instead of physically casting people from two different cultures/races.
We were initially going to have Fiona being played by a black female as we wanted to portray the difficulties couples may experience when two different races come together despite London being heavily multicultural and improvements in racial integration there is still tension between different races in today’s society. However we didn’t want our story to be solely focused on race. Through the glove system we wanted to show all the factors that could contribute to keeping couples apart such as, class, religion, age, area etc. Fiona is part of the red gloves and is considered ‘as the girl next door’ as she is a typical attractive 18-year-old girl and this is well represented through our actress Abbey Salmon.
Fiona’s friends do not really contribute to the narrative as much as Rupert and Fiona however they are key, as they are the only things holding Fiona back from being with Rupert. Society and more importantly her friends will make her question whether it is all worth it and as a result of this, this also brings in the theme of peer pressure. The reason why we chose these characters was because our initial idea was to cast Fiona’s family as the people who rejected the idea of being with Rupert, however we found difficulties with shooting schedules and finding appropriate family members to use as characters. As a result of this we chose people the same age as us to fill this void due to their availability and better suitability to our film.
By Nathaniel & Danny
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