Auditions

Today in Advanced productions we split ourselves into three groups of breaking down the production process. I was in the script/ talent group. We went into the studio to do a few read throughs of the script. While reading through the script we looked for inconsistencies, the flow of the dialog, and ways to improve the overall script. We also used this time to audition/ cast the different roles in the film.

Since the original script was written with the lead female character resembling myself I took the role of Natalie. We auditioned for the part of the Waiter, Dante, the two dead corpses, and Calvin. After about three to four read throughs with different actors reading for the part of Calvin our AD David came in to update us and take our notes over to the Director, Torin. At this time David went through the script with us and allowed the group to make some changes to the script.

One line I can recall that we were all adamant about removing was “Well hells bells”. As this line showed the personality of the writer, we felt it did not fit the character who was saying the line. That character is Natalie, a confident 20 something year old who has been around the dating block quite a few times. Since this felt unnatural to the character we chose to change the line to “Well”. Throughout the script you can sense the writers naivety towards the tinder dating/sexual situations placed within the script. This lead us to change quite a few lines in the original script.

Once we made the script changes I delivered the notes to Director Torin. It was at this time that I persuaded Sam, who was in a different production group, to audition for the part of Calvin via a recorded read through. All the actors and the Assistant Director watched as we recorded the final read through and came to a unanimous decision that Sam and I had the right balance of chemistry needed to play these two characters. We brought the final taping into the room for everyone in the class to see and solidified the decision of who got the part.