This has been a busy week. Luckily I have time to focus on all of this. We still have another meeting to confirm our application for our actor union, but in the mean time we’re moving full steam ahead. We’ve been going over lists of actors that our casting directors have put together and getting ready to move as soon as we can. Certain parts we’ll be offering roles to and the others we’ll be auditioning. For the offers it’s considered good form to write a personal letter to the actor you’re offering the role to and so I’ve been working away on that.
We’ve got roughly twenty-five roles to cast, all of varying ages and types, which we could start doing as early as next week. The process involved is that you write up something called a break-down, which includes the character name, age, gender, and if it’s important – race. Then a description of the character – at least enough information to help an actor prepare. The break-down goes out to agents and they send it to whatever actors they believe would be good for the roles. Another thing you need to send out is something called ‘sides’ which are sample scenes from the film. For smaller roles you probably only have and need one scene. For leads or supporting characters 5-7 pages of script, and at least two contrasting scenes are ideal.
Based on our tentative shooting schedule we’re just under six weeks away from production. A lot of our key-crew has been hired, but we’re still missing some people that I’ll feel a lot more comfortable once we have. The next big thing to start doing is location scouting, which I’m going to start focusing on… now…
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