Casting for topless role?

flnstudios said:
We're in love with our craft and our art... or at least that's what I tell myself in order to justify the time spent behind my camera and in front of my PC.

Thanks for brightening up the forum Michele.

I enjoyed the Michele and the Midnight Blues footage on Youtube.
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At least our crafts make us happy! and how cool you went and looked at the band footage! thank you for doing that and the sweet comment!

ot444 said:
Ok casting all done. MUCH smaller turnout than expected. Even after many confirmations and interest, only a handful showed up.
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That is a problem with indie projects and not just for talent willing to do partial nudity. If there is no real budget the actor/actress has to weigh in their head...is it worth possibly losing my waitress/mechanic/what ever gig just to go read for a project that can't pay me enough to pay rent.

It is a constant problem which is why I always try to find something to pay them and seldom cast projects where there is not pay involved.

Capt Quirk said:
What's next? Shooting phony shorts, just so that you can cast yourself in the love scenes?
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Quirk

To this day I have serious questions on a 'supposed' music video casting call. The guy paid me good money to do the casting sessions for him. He gave me what I needed to rent the location and pay for the camera guy and all of the above....like anyone should.

But to this day I can't help but wonder if he paid to make his own 'wank' footage for home and just happened to have the money to throw around. No nudity in the auditions but he did have some peculiar requests on how we shot the footage that just makes me go hmmmmm and still wonder 10 years later.

Does not help that I never saw a video that included his concept!


Capt Quirk said:
Honestly I wasn't offering anything... but, "Have Camera, Will Travel" is my motto. Well, that and "Anything, anywhere, anytime, just as long as it doesn't include kids or animals" :)
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lol leaving that alone now!
 
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Michele Seidman said:
To this day I have serious questions on a 'supposed' music video casting call. The guy paid me good money to do the casting sessions for him. He gave me what I needed to rent the location and pay for the camera guy and all of the above....like anyone should.

But to this day I can't help but wonder if he paid to make his own 'wank' footage for home and just happened to have the money to throw around. No nudity in the auditions but he did have some peculiar requests on how we shot the footage that just makes me go hmmmmm and still wonder 10 years later.

Does not help that I never saw a video that included his concept!
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What difference does it make? A job is a job if it pays, and as long as you don't feel you crossed any moral, ethical, or legal lines. God knows I have done things I wasn't overly proud of, but I never crossed those lines and made some money.

Michele Seidman said:
lol leaving that alone now!
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Coward ;)
 
Michele Seidman said:
But to this day I can't help but wonder if he paid to make his own 'wank' footage for home and just happened to have the money to throw around. No nudity in the auditions but he did have some peculiar requests on how we shot the footage that just makes me go hmmmmm and still wonder 10 years later.

Does not help that I never saw a video that included his concept!
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It wouldn't surprise me if it was his own 'wank' footage.

Living in NY, more and more I'm convinced that there really is an *ss for every seat.
 
Capt Quirk said:
What difference does it make? A job is a job if it pays, and as long as you don't feel you crossed any moral, ethical, or legal lines. God knows I have done things I wasn't overly proud of, but I never crossed those lines and made some money.

Coward ;)
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I only felt worry because of all the women who were on the audition tape if it ever got in the wrong hands or was used for some underground video company. Imagine that I found out he was selling the tapes...then all those actresses would never come to any audition I held if they thought that could happen again.

So, in my book...if it was for home wank..I deal...but if he sold it to anyone else he put my reputation on the line for future work. That alone is why it concerned me. So far it has not popped up anywhere..

and Coward..lol...no...last person you ever want to say that about but felt I was hijacking too much of the thread off topic too far! Coward never...fair woman...always!
 
Michele Seidman said:
I only felt worry because of all the women who were on the audition tape if it ever got in the wrong hands or was used for some underground video company.

So, in my book...if it was for home wank..I deal...but if he sold it to anyone else he put my reputation on the line for future work. That alone is why it concerned me. So far it has not popped up anywhere..
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Fair enough, I hadn't considered the actresses. But you also said their wasn't any nudity, so how bad could it have been?
Michele Seidman said:
and Coward..lol...no...last person you ever want to say that about but felt I was hijacking too much of the thread off topic too far! Coward never...fair woman...always!
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Then start another thread :thumbsup:
 
Michele Seidman said:
To this day I have serious questions on a 'supposed' music video casting call. The guy paid me good money to do the casting sessions for him. He gave me what I needed to rent the location and pay for the camera guy and all of the above....like anyone should.

But to this day I can't help but wonder if he paid to make his own 'wank' footage for home and just happened to have the money to throw around. No nudity in the auditions but he did have some peculiar requests on how we shot the footage that just makes me go hmmmmm and still wonder 10 years later.
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Haha, now I'm curious, first of all I can't imagine anyone actually doing that, but I guess you never know. But what do you mean peculiar requests? Like BDSM type of stuff?! haha, j/k

On indie casting, I find the actors and actresses so far to be the most flaky of people involved in production, I hate to say that, but anyone who has flaked on me as far as crew had really legitimate reasons (blizzard, stuck in Chicago airport, can't get a ticket tonight but will try to get in before shooting tomorrow, just wanted to let you know, etc.), whereas the actors and actresses just haven't shown up. When I upped the pay, like on my training video shoot, it wasn't much but it was like $525 for 2 days, everyone showed up to the auditions. Nobody skipped. That isn't great pay but it's better than the $100/day to free range. ;)

On the short I just finished a first draft for, I have my first kissing scene and it's not just a kissing scene it's kind of a mad makeout session. It needs to be there, in my opinion, because it's hilarious in the context. I also figured, eh, I'll have to deal with this crap eventually may as well put it in my short so I can get some experience. But considering the actors and actresses I know, I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be a bad idea (just because these two characters have only a few lines each) if they were actually boyfriend-girlfriend. I'm taking the easy way out of I do that, but it's going to be so funny otherwise, what a strange job acting is. I haven't dated a girl in a year, so I haven't even kissed a girl in a year, and yet an actor could show up and it's like, "Hey, yeah, here's your makeout scene, oh by the way this is the actress, Amy, who you'll be kissing. Act like it's great." Haha, what a profession.
 
Capt Quirk said:
Fair enough, I hadn't considered the actresses. But you also said their wasn't any nudity, so how bad could it have been?
Then start another thread :thumbsup:
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No nudity but there were balloons....too long a story and as for another thread...is there a area on dvx for 'not on topic, not on film not related at all'? lol

JonathanLB said:
Haha, now I'm curious, first of all I can't imagine anyone actually doing that, but I guess you never know. But what do you mean peculiar requests? Like BDSM type of stuff?! haha, j/k

On indie casting, I find the actors and actresses so far to be the most flaky of people involved in production, I hate to say that, but anyone who has flaked on me as far as crew had really legitimate reasons (blizzard, stuck in Chicago airport, can't get a ticket tonight but will try to get in before shooting tomorrow, just wanted to let you know, etc.), whereas the actors and actresses just haven't shown up.
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As mentioned above...long story but balloons involved.

As for flaky...since I am an actress I hate to admit so many of them are flakes but it is partly why most of my real friends are outside the business.

But please make note...production can be just as flaky!

I once had an audition in Charlotte (3 1/2 hours away) that I went to on a Wednesday. They said if they needed me back it would be in a week. So, I went to NYC on Thursday because I thought they would not try to get up with me for a week. On Friday my agent called me at 9pm and said they wanted to see me on Saturday. They had changed their minds on call back dates last minute.

I drove from NYC back to Wilmington over night (10-11 hours), changed clothing, got in the car and drove another 3 and a half hours and went to the call back on Saturday...on time!

Then they decided to go a totally different direction with the casting. Altered the role from my age, white female to 10 years younger, black female.

Who flaked on that one? Not the talent! I was there and on time even after they changed things with no regard to what they told all the talent. My agent even told them I had gone to NYC, so they knew I turned around and drove some 15 hours to get back on time only for them to make a last minute alteration on the character.

Flakes sit on both sides of the table darling! It IS after all, the creative world we live in!

:)

Michele
 
In a Monty Python episode, this is about the point where Graham Chapman would step in, in a police uniform, and 'arrest' the actors saying "that'll be all now...move along...this is much too silly".

As you were...
 
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