Casting Call Catastrophe

As the title of this post suggests, our casting call did not go as planned and was nowhere near what we thought it was going to be. Only 2, two, TWO people showed up and neither of them were exactly Saoirse Ronan if you catch my drift. The lack of turnout was a miscalculation on our part though. I think we underestimated the teenage need for relaxation and the power Friday has on the motivation of students. If we held the casting call on any other weekday, turnout might’ve been better.  Both of the girls who auditioned were very polite and listened to our directions, but they didn’t grasp the emotions in the way we wanted. You know what they say, if you want to get something done, you gotta do it yourself. My partner Shreya will assume the lead role as she will be able to visualize what we want in the project better than the actresses who auditioned for the part. We briefly considered holding a second casting call, but with the SAT coming up as well as important field trips, we decided it was better to just leave everything as is.

One of the girls who auditioned asked if I could pretend to be a dead person to help them formulate a monologue. While she was performing I was trying so hard not to laugh, acting is tough man. The other girl who auditioned had an accent that was a little hard to understand, this is not important because we would not have a lot of dialogue, but she seemed to need to rely on dialogue in order to emote well which was somewhat problematic. Blogger won't let me post the second video, so I'll try to include it in the next post,