Does this always happen?

Brickhouse

Brickhouse

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So we had our first day of auditions today, for our feature film, and out of the 20 people we had scheduled today, 8 showed up. Is that normal? They confirmed with me that they would be there and we were in a very easy spot to find with signs and everything. The people we got were fantastic, though and we only had one guy who wasn't so great.

Is there some special way to schedule auditions that we likely didn't do?
 
Thats kind of normal, thats why you have more than one day. It just shows you who is more reliable though.
 
Brickhouse said:
So we had our first day of auditions today, for our feature film, and out of the 20 people we had scheduled today, 8 showed up. Is that normal? They confirmed with me that they would be there and we were in a very easy spot to find with signs and everything. The people we got were fantastic, though and we only had one guy who wasn't so great.

Is there some special way to schedule auditions that we likely didn't do?
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It's not completely unusual. That percentage isn't great. I like to get 66% attendance to feel okay about the no-shows but it happens.

Perhaps they got caught up at another appointment, rehearsal, audition they felt was a better opportunity, etc.

-M
 
It happens to us all the time. We usually get more than half to show up. The worst is when then back out on you the day of shooting. One general rule I have is that if you show up late to auditions, you will show up late on set. (barring extreme circumstances) Those people don't have a chance.
 
jordandov said:
Did you confirm the day before, like dentists?
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Counterintuitively, I don't do this. My theory is, if you are going to flake out, I'd rather know it before you're hired than after. If you are so unreliable, disorganized, or indifferent as to be unable to remember your audition date and time, then I don't want you. I'd rather inform of the date/time once, and then let nature take its course - natural winnowing out, Darwin style test. To call somebody up defeats that purpose - it's meant to be a test. I want the flakes out before we start shooting. All IMHO, and YMMV.
 
OldCorpse said:
Counterintuitively, I don't do this. My theory is, if you are going to flake out, I'd rather know it before you're hired than after. If you are so unreliable, disorganized, or indifferent as to be unable to remember your audition date and time, then I don't want you. I'd rather inform of the date/time once, and then let nature take its course - natural winnowing out, Darwin style test. To call somebody up defeats that purpose - it's meant to be a test. I want the flakes out before we start shooting. All IMHO, and YMMV.
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I agree with you on this. It does separate the field somewhat.

-M
 
Richard J. Johnson said:
It happens to us all the time. We usually get more than half to show up. The worst is when then back out on you the day of shooting. One general rule I have is that if you show up late to auditions, you will show up late on set. (barring extreme circumstances) Those people don't have a chance.
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Yeah, this happened to me twice already on my current feature. Luckily I have lots of friends who come in handy in helping to find decent (and sometimes better) alternatives.

We're nearly completed with all but the main 3 characters on our shoot, so I stress less with each day in the books.

-M
 
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