casting for homeless

1. Casting for Homeless

2. Character: Joe
• Joe is the main protagonist.The character comes across as your
average ‘Joe’ who goes to work in order to earn enough money
to support himself financially… and that’s about it. Joe has no
family or children.The role of his character is to show how such a
horrifying experience can happen to anybody, even someone
who just goes by his day to day life.
• We chose Charles Gordon to be the actor of this character as we
wanted somebody who is confident in front of a camera. Charles
has many years of acting experience therefore we think he will
execute the role of Joe perfectly.

3. Character: Rejjie
• Homeless includes a scene where Joe visits the corner shop
on the way back from work.The character introduced in this
scene is Rejjie who works at the corner shop. Rejjie is a
cheerful man, even when his job is low paid.This emphasises
the normality of the short film at the beginning as Joe
interacts with Rejjie. Rejjie has a family to go back to and is
again earning just enough money to pay for his house,
children and food & drink.
• Charles is good friends with the worker of his local corner
shop therefore was able to get him to act out this role for us.

4. Character: Homeless Man
• The final character in Homeless is the reason for how our idea
of this short film came about. We wanted to not give the
homeless man a name in the film as this adds to the unknown
factor within our short. He lost everything he owns, family,
house and of course money. He has been homeless for a long
time now and feels like it is time for revenge against those
who don’t help him get out of the position he is in.
• In terms of the actor, we will choose anybody on set to act this
role out as very little face will be shown.The homeless man
will not appear for long however the message which he gives
Joe is the crucial part making a role that in society seem
irrelevant become very important in our short as we get across
the idea that you must give to others.