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Fiction adaptaion: Actor replacement

On the day before shooting, my friend who was going to be one of my actors had to drop out of the shoot, so I had to find a replacement. I asked a few more friends, but they were all busy, and couldn't change their schedules due to it being such short notice.

I therefore had to ask a few people on the same course as me. This was not what I wanted to do, as I wanted to try and have people off the course in order to experience having to direct people that I did not know. Eventually, my friend George agreed that he would help me with my project.

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