Yay for Communication!

Auditions went very well. I just finished sending out a thank you email to all the actors that auditioned and I told them that of the seven shorts I’ve done this was by far the most talented group of actors I’ve ever auditioned. And that’s the truth. We had about 65-70 actors signed up and about 40 actually made it out. 5-6 cancelled and the rest were no shows. It didn’t discourage me though because if they don’t show to the audition they might not show to the shoot or something like that. Weed out the unreliable ones first. I told all the actors that we were giving ourselves a month to make final decisions. I’m actually going to be notifying people on Friday or Saturday. I’m gonna send them the screenplay, the part I’d like them to play, and a DVD with Credit Counselors, Rock.Paper.Scissors. and OK on it. I don’t want them to accept the role till I give them the shooting schedule details (which I should have by that time anyway) and the sag contract (which I have no idea when that will be worked out). I just want the actors to know that I want them to play a certain part and if they read the script and don’t want that part and they decline it’ll give us enough time to find someone else and make another offer. We’re actually going to be doing more auditions. There were a few crucial roles that didn’t get filled, mainly the role of me. But I’m not being vain or anything. I’m a real dork, and there were no dorks that auditioned really. I mean, everyone was either real cool or a woman. And those are two things I’m not. So we’re gonna do another casting call in a month or so.

Travis got a hold of IHOP and it looks like they want us to pay for the time there. I told Travis to look into Denny’s and see what they say. Denny’s could easily replace IHOP, although I’d love to do it at IHOP. I talked to Ron about it and he had some great ideas. He told us to email them and tell them that the actors are eating in the scene and that they will be paying for food and that the crew and extras we bring will be eating as well. He also said we should ask if we could do some sort of casting call with the waitresses so that we could get IHOP more involved. It’ll be interesting to see what they say.

I have yet to respond to Lamont in regards to his email, I’ve just been so busy. I’ll try and do it tonight.

I’m on my way back to the computer lab in a couple of hours to start work on the schedule again. It’ll be fun.

The meeting last Wednesday was interesting. Everyone ended up canceling so it was just me Dan and Noel. I gave them hard copies of the script then and everyone else got there’s at auditions. Well, Travis got his from me at work but that’s fine.

I offered the role of Melanie (the RA) to Kate Haas and she accepted the role. She got her copy as well. I’ve worked with her a lot before and I really wanted her to play this role. It’s gonna be fun.

Still haven’t heard from the story board guys yet. I’ll call them this evening.

I’ve been going through a hard copy of the script all this last week highlighting characters, props, locations, set dressings, and crucial sound effects. This production draft will be my key while I finish up the schedule; it’ll make it THAT much easier and faster. So I hope anyway.

My cell phone is up and running! Yay for communication!

I got an email from Brad Golden, the gentleman I want to play Officer Robert Navarro. He said he was excited about working on the project which makes me soooooo happy. He gave me his address so I mailed him a hard copy of the screenplay on Friday. Now I just wait.