From the course: Creating a Short Film: 04 Working with Actors

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Finding actors

Finding actors

- So where can you find actors? For The Assurance, I put out as big of a net as possible, I posted the local Facebook groups, local online bulletin boards, acting schools, even Craigslist. I'd heard positive and negative things about different methods, but I really wanted to try everything so I could talk about it in this training series. I found the preacher, Will Rose, from the acting school post, and almost everyone else from the online bulletin boards. I probably had the most responses from Craigslist, but with the exception of Josh Piper, no one responded to my replies or showed up for their auditions. I had dozens of people respond to my initial post, but a lot of those people didn't fit the criteria I asked for in the casting call, or wouldn't email me back. I ended up scheduling about a dozen actors for auditions, but of those dozen, only five showed up. So I learned to really pack the schedule with auditions knowing that many, or even most in our case, most of those people…

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