The warehouse week starts off pretty much like any other one. Up at seven and off to work. Do some work for a bit, then check my hotmail and find my inbox filling up with actors hopefuls wanting to apply for the roles! Casting call authorised it first and my inbox had about 10 new emails every time I clicked refresh. At the end of the week I want to write a blog entry summarising my overall experience but this was just mad.
During lunch I created a separate folder for my Jacob submissions and another for the Jacqueline submissions. Casting call are actually quite good as you can go on and work through your submissions on their site and basically say whether someone is suitable or not. On Mandy I couldn’t find a way to do this so I have just catalogued the Mandy emails. If only there was a way to stop casting call sending you an email per applicant then it would be pretty good.
I also heard back from Spotlight in the afternoon and found out that for your first casting notice you have to get Spotlight to do it for you then after that then you can put them out yourself. I found this out at the end of the day and didn’t have time to send them the details.
After work I did the 1.5 hour journey to the warehouse to pick up the keys then travelled home and did a quick run through the actors who had applied on casting call. I managed to get through all of the Jacqueline’s within about 45 minutes. There was about 300 applications in all. It is quite amazing how quickly you can know whether someone is suitable or not. I have an image of Jacqueline in my head and even if I can’t quite describe it I know what I want and what I don’t want. If you seen my selections then that would be the best description of what I am looking for.
After doing that I rushed off to the warehouse again. We transported some of our gig equipment over as well as all of the boxes of alcohol that we have for the party.
Nearly forgot. I got a call from the Police today saying that they hadn’t received my Temporary Event Notice application form that you need to have in order to sell alcohol and to put on "regulated entertainment" (i.e. bands, dj’s, etc). This was a bit annoying and currently I am not sure what to do. Gut feel is to hold the nights anyway and take the risk that no one comes by to check. Possibly getting people to make a suggested donation for a beer or something.. hmm..
Made it back to the warehouse and met Derek there who had hired a street car and had a full gig equipment rig with him. We basically had anything of any value in the world that Derek owned in the warehouse. Two guitar amps, a keyboard amp, a PA, a guitar, etc!
With everything in the warehouse I headed home with the knowledge that I still didn’t have any actors lined up for tomorrow night. I got home at around midnight and spent the next couple of hours going through the rest of the actors that had applied on casting call. Once I had whittled it down I then checked their notes to see when everyone was available and I invited everyone for an audition who said that they could make it on Tuesday. I decided to have half an hour time slots so that we can judge how long it takes.
The emails sent I then went to bed. It is only day one but I feel pretty knackered already!