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May 14, 2008
Experiment: Day Ten
If I had known how popular going into casting would make me, I would've done it in high school.
I said that five years ago after putting out the breakdown for the first feature film I cast. It was like, by hitting "submit" on the breakdown confirmation page, I had initiated a change in my life from which I would never recover. I've even had to disable messaging at MySpace because of my career choice. The emails, the calls, the faxes, the snail mailed submissions... they NEVER. STOP. COMING.
Even when no breakdown is active, there are emails, calls, submissions. Pleas for general meetings. Declarations of love for all opportunities.
And I love my job. Monday, I was up before 7am to deal with casting issues taking place in other time zones. By 10am, I had logged work hours on six different feature films. Issued offers to name actors, set up meetings with up-and-coming actors whose work we know, helped a producer get her SAG Guaranteed Completion Certificate, started in on a character breakdown, and had a strategy session to plan next offers.
And that's just the work that's related to projects I'm casting. Which is just a fraction of my work life. There's the writing, the speaking, the producing too. Never stop, never stop, never stop.
As many times as I find myself wishing for a break from the constant phones, emails, and "others," I have to say that it is certainly better than the alternative. I have casting colleagues who will reach out to me, asking how I find projects to cast... how I get on producers' radar... how they might find some leads, write up some bids, get some WORK. *shrug* Outside of the very first film I cast, for which I answered a crew notice in Back Stage West, I've never had to work that hard to find work. It finds me. And that's pretty dang badass.
Day Ten:
I am grateful for being in demand.
(What is the Experiment? It is this.)
Posted by bonnie at May 14, 2008 12:13 PM
Comments
Two thoughts leap to mind (the most activity my brain has had all week).
- a Bonnie cube that I could shake, and an answer to my every question could be at hand.
- a Bonnie robot could come standard with your book. One word: the Bon-e-nator.
(Warning: the above post is not the opinion of the poster, nor of any sane, rational human being.) ;)
Posted by: CJC at May 15, 2008 9:38 AM
Teeeeeee heeeeeeeeee!
Posted by: bon 
at May 15, 2008 9:58 AM