ABSTRACT

Casting is an essential component of any film or video project, but the core skill-set needed to cast effectively is little understood. Casting Revealed: A Guide for Film Directors is a straightforward manual on the art and craft of casting. Here, director Hester Schell offers her insider perspective on casting workflows, industry standards, finding actors, running auditions, what to look for in a performance, contracts, and making offers. This new edition has been updated with fresh interviews with casting directors, full color head shots, new information about online video submissions, and a companion website featuring forms, contracts, and sample scenes for auditions.

  • Gain a fuller understanding of the misunderstood art and craft of casting actors for film and video production.

  • Learn to find the right actors for any production, run auditions, interview actors, effectively judge performances and video submissions, evaluate suitability for a role, discover what it is you need from an actor, view headshots, draft contracts, make offers, and navigate current industry standards, unions, and procedures.

  • This new edition has been updated to include full color sample head shots, new content on online video submissions, listings of casting wesbites, film resources, and film commissions and a companion website featuring interviews with celebrated casting directors from New York, Portland, Boston and Austin, necessary forms, sign-in sheets, contracts, and sample scenes for auditions.

chapter 1|14 pages

Save Money—Do It Yourself (DIY)

chapter 2|6 pages

Your Directing Career

chapter 3|20 pages

An Overview of the Casting Process

chapter 4|18 pages

Industry Standards

chapter 5|12 pages

Acting—What Is It?

chapter 7|18 pages

The Casting Breakdown—Spreading the Word

chapter 8|10 pages

Staying Organized

chapter 10|6 pages

The Second Round—Callbacks

chapter 11|8 pages

Offers and Contracts

chapter 13|8 pages

Casting Directors—Do You Need One?

chapter 14|14 pages

So You Want to Be a Casting Director