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How to Find Open Casting Calls
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Not all casting calls are open to everyone. In fact, there are many
casting calls that are invite only—or specific to a particular
group i.e. only union or only non-union etc. However, if you know
where to look, you may be able to find more open casting calls than
you would think.
· Online
Surprisingly enough—I have seen open casting calls have actually
posted online. I have seen sites that offer open casting calls for
movies like the Harry Potter series X Men 3 and several other sites
that will help register the aspiring actor for open casting calls
to audition to be in the movies. Some of these sites are great to
register to and will send you information regularly regarding open
casting calls. I was able to find casing calls for a "Rocky"
Sequel, an open casting call for a Ben Stiller Movie called "Night
at the Museum", Castle Rock Film posted an open casting call
for a movie called "Chaos Theory", as well as an open
casting call for a Bruce Willis Film coming out soon called "Perfect
Stranger". Such websites give the direct time and place, list
compensation and a list and brief description of the particular
parts they are looking for. If you do not live there, you may have
to travel to New York, Hollywood, London or somewhere else to audition—but
it may be worth it.
· Acting Schools and Institutions
Acting schools or institutions may have sources for finding open
casting calls. There may be bulletin boards in such acting schools
or institutions announcing open casting calls that someone unaffiliated
with that institution or school would not otherwise see.
· Brochures or Public Bulletins
When I was a teenager, an older friend of mine found a bulletin
for an open casting call for teenagers with acting and singing talent
to get parts in the choir in the movie “Sister Act 2”.
My friend gathered up a bunch of teenagers she knew and we all drove
to the open casting call. It was, to say the least, intimidating.
The audition took place in the ballroom of a large, local hotel
and they lined a few hundred of us up along the walls. A woman stood
in the center of the room and walked around the room among all the
talented (or untalented) hopefuls. The first part of the audition
was the singing. Then, if you made it that far, the acting audition,
which would be cold reading only. She walked around the room and
when she pointed at you, you would sing the song you had prepared
until the woman said either “thank you” or “stay”.
If she said “thank you”, well you didn’t make
it to the second round, but if she said “stay”, you
would remain to do the acting part of the audition.
Open casting calls can be very intimidating, there might be hundreds
upon hundreds of people there—and they all want the same thing
as you do: to be cast in the production. Try to stay confident and
do your best. Confidence is the real key to a good audition.
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