Offers to Come

Miguel canceled our meeting for Monday. He has a good excuse but it still makes me nervous. I tried to call him and he didn’t answer. I know its father’s day weekend and he’s got a young child so I understand that I’m last on his priority this weekend. It’s just inconvenient. I hope I can get in touch with him tomorrow. He wanted to reschedule to Tuesday but I leave at 6:40am on Tuesday. I expressed his concerns to the production team and they were 100% behind me so I’m at least happy about that. We’re going to do the film with or with out the school of theatre and film but we’d really like to do it as our capstone since it’s only appropriate and it’s going to be so much work. I’ve just got to talk to Miguel.

Our production meeting went well. We made final decisions on cast and are going to make the rest of the offers tomorrow. Well, offers to non-SAG actors. SAG actors are going to have to wait till I make a decision on the subject. I wish I could give the actors I offer roles a hard copy of the screenplay tomorrow but I’m going to be gone for a week and there’s no way to get it to them. But I also don’t want to wait to offer till I get home cause that’ll be over 3 weeks since they auditioned. So what I’ll do is send them an electronic copy and then if they want the part, when I get back, give them a hard copy. Instead of giving the DVD’s I’m also going to upload the rough versions of Credit Counselors, OK, and Rock.Paper.Scissors. That way they can see the films and be familiar with my work.

I talked to the team today about finding someone to play the role of Jared. Of all the actors that auditioned, that role is the one we can’t cast. But I had a long discussion with Jon Baranick, my best friend, about it. We talked about different actors that we knew and we came up with a good idea of who to play the role. I showed the production team pictures of him today and we’re gonna ask him in for an interview when I get back. See what the rest of the team thinks. So far that’s the best we have.