Reflections From Auditions - 13th January 2009

For the auditions, I was in charge of making sure that all of the auditionees signed a copy of the model release forms so that we could film their audition and also have them acting in our episodes. I also gave each person a brief character description and also time for them to learn their lines. I thought this worked well and gave everyone a chance to act more in character than just reading the lines back to us.

There was a time in which no one auditioned, so we went back over the footage. There was no sound recorded. I remember asking Tim specifically to make sure that it was recording sound, but he said it didnt matter. I then attempted to get in touch with people to come and re-audition their parts. Unfortunately, only one person was able to make it as everyone else had left the college.

I felt that we worked well as a team, although a few of the comments made by Dave were unnecessary. I mean, you don't tell people who are auditioning for a role that the script is s**t and that they shouldn't waste their time auditioning. I felt this was quite a negative comment to be made. I was also going to take a copy of the quicktimed auditions home to help select cast members. As the file would not quicktime on Dave's laptop in time, I had to leave with just a set of audition notes.

Kirk, Tara and I then sat downstairs and discussed who would fit what roles in the episodes, although it was my choice to make an executive decision. The way I organised it was that each of the judges would write down the names of the people they thought would be suited to each role and I would go away and select the people with the highest number of votes. I then went home and began making my selection on each of the cast members.