Actors who send head shots and resumes with filenames like DSC_9481.jpg, and Actingresume.pdf.
That's great, so when I've got a folder full of 50 head shots and resumes I will have no idea who you are. And if you don't care I'm not sure why I should.
Actually the first round of auditions aren't going so badly.
This part of the process is where I make use of my pathological need to be organised. We put out casting announcements for 9 parts between the two films. There is a little bit of overlap in the demographics. April is a little younger than Esther, the younger moving guy and Tim are about the same age, Bates and the Professor are about the same. Really anyone who would be right for one would likely be wrong for the other, but we have quite a few people coming to be considered for more than one role. That's good. That's why we're going through the added chaos of doing them jointly.
We're doing first round auditions for 2 weeks just to get through everyone. I really love getting to hear the script performed. When I did the table read in December the script was read and that was great. Good to hear it in someone's voice other than my own. What I noticed last night was the difference between reading and performing. At auditions people are performing. They're trying to show you how they might perform it. It hasn't lost its thrill at all.
On advantage to them reading for two very different parts is that they should read them in two different characters thus providing you with an inkling of their ability to "act."
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