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Chapter 56 Casting Auditions
Chapter 56 Casting Auditions
The principal introduced the composition of the Performing Arts Specialized Art High School, which is divided into three departments: performance, music, and dance.This is a public high school that enrolls students throughout New York State.As long as one of the three directions passes the entrance interview, you can enter high school for study.
This gives children from lower-class families who are artistically gifted a chance to make their mark.Without this performing arts college, children from families with poor economic conditions can only fight for art scholarships in private schools like Meg Tilly.
Then their ascending channel will be much narrower.
Director Alan Parker mainly introduced the plot of the movie "Hot Lunch", "This is a film that reflects the students of a public art high school. Eight students with different personalities, backgrounds, and majors have grown up in the performing arts college."
"We hope to do a large-scale audition in the performing arts college. The eight protagonists, 600 secondary roles, and [-] extras of the movie will all be selected in your school."
"Our performing arts high school is the largest and most comprehensive public art high school in New York. This is where such a movie should come. I'm still a fan of your last movie 'Midnight Train'." The principal said.
"We also hope to shoot scenes in your school. In addition, there are some teachers and principals in the movie. We also hope that your school teachers and you can play."
The headmaster smiled even more happily.
Several parties negotiated.On weekends, large auditions for the Performing Arts Academy are held.
Auditions will then take place in the school's auditorium.Two casting companies, each with 3 casting directors, separately select 8 candidates for the leading role.The students they think are suitable will be recommended to the director's classroom for a second round of interviews.
Ronald's job is to take audition photos for each selected student in the classroom of the second round of interviews, then develop and print two copies, and file them with the two casting companies respectively.
After inspecting the venue, Ronald had an idea and was about to leave when the producer Da Silva approached him again.
"Are you familiar with the script?"
Ronald nodded.
"What is the background of student Doris?"
"Jewish, good at singing, average-looking, a young version of Barbra Streisand."
"Very good, keep it up." Da Silva pointed to his ear, signaling to report immediately if there is any situation.
"If possible, can I ask why I did this?" Ronald asked seeing that Da Silva was in a good mood.It's uncomfortable being caught between producer and director like this.
David da Silva stopped and looked at Ronald:
"You know, Allen is a good director, but he's English. He doesn't understand our American mentality, we're built to win. In our films, the hero always wins over the villain , hug the beauty back."
no?Our Chief Jimmy is on TV acknowledging that America no longer has the moral superiority needed to lead the Allies.
But maybe the majority of the people still think so, Ronald knows that many people hate the term Grand Commander.
"I remember that if there is any change, please notify me immediately." The producer Da Silva left first.
Ronald returned to the conference room, waiting to send the director back to the casting studio.
Alan Parker was still chattering, discussing his script with the acting teachers.
"My philosophy is to truly reflect social reality issues. For example, race issues, class issues, so I set up the role of Leroy. He is from Harlem, has a gang background, is illiterate, but has a very high level of dancing. talent."
"The issue of underage pregnancy on high school campuses is a hot topic worth discussing. A white female student is pregnant with a black child. What should she do..."
"The problem of bullying on campus, the problem of gangsters, ..."
The teacher of the acting department was also a black man, wearing black-rimmed glasses and nodding frequently.He is very satisfied with and deeply sympathizes with Director Alan Parker's plot of blacks and poor people.
"But won't this cause everyone to misunderstand the high school of performing arts? Most of our students are still good students in the mainstream. If they all have this kind of role setting, it seems that our school is like a very dark place."
Another white female teacher muttered.
Ronald felt that if the conversation continued, something would happen.He stepped forward to interrupt the chat, and dragged Director Parker to the casting studio, where there were still actors selected yesterday to audition.
When they arrived at the casting studio, dozens of boys and girls were already waiting at the front desk with their managers. Ronald saw that Michelle, who looked like a cat, was also in the waiting queue.
"Okay, we can start" ordered producer Da Silva to start the audition.
One by one, the actors were called into the audition room one by one.Ronald was in charge of taking a Polaroid snapshot of them, recording and archiving the director's comments.
Then the director would give each actor a two-page script and ask her to act live.
This is the benefit of operating through a casting company.Casting studios are very familiar with actors and can quickly screen suitable candidates.If there is no casting director and only auditions are available, it will waste a lot of time.
The script given by the director first included Hillary doing a series of ballet moves in the practice room, and then a dialogue scene.
Ronald called the number.Actresses will first change into ballet training clothes and do a few simple rotations and positioning movements.
Then Howard Fell, the casting director, would make a cameo and have a few words with Hillary.
Ronald couldn't quite understand why it was set up like this.
He took down the director's comments and took the opportunity to ask Margaery from the casting studio.
Margery told him that the invitation for this audition indicated that the role of Hillary must be able to dance ballet, and at least at a quasi-professional level.
However, for the sake of audition opportunities, many actors often lie that they have the required skills, and then practice suddenly after they are selected.Such a session was set up today to screen out those who falsely claim to know ballet.
Sure enough, with a few simple movements, an actress who couldn't do ballet was screened out. She couldn't even do a simple one-leg stand and fell to the ground.Margaery was so angry that she wrote "lying" on her resume.
Ronald helped her out and called the next number by the way.
"Michelle... Michelle poof..., no; bahfu..., not right either."
After all, Ronald came from a time travel, so he was not very good at pronouncing this German-style spelling with two consonants together.
"It's Michelle Pfeiffer, P is silent," the cat-like girl laughed amused by him.
"Sorry," Ronald also smiled, "Michelle, it's you next, please go to the locker room and change into your exercise clothes, and then come in."
Michelle changed into a lavender exercise suit, white ballet stockings, and pale pink dancing shoes.The long golden hair that originally hung on both sides of the cheeks was tied up, and a loose bun was tied behind the head.In this way, her cat-like face is more prominent.
Ronald took a Polaroid snapshot of her and posted it on the audition form.It says Michelle Pfeiffer, blue eyes, 5 feet 7 (1.70 meters), 21 years old this year.
Her face was very young, and her voice was still high-pitched. If he didn't read the resume, Ronald would think that she was only under 18, and there was no problem playing a high school student.
"Get ready for the action, start, spin your legs, one circle, two circles, Arabesque." Margery pressed the play button of the tape recorder, and at the same time began to shout the password.
"Okay, here we go."
(End of this chapter)
The principal introduced the composition of the Performing Arts Specialized Art High School, which is divided into three departments: performance, music, and dance.This is a public high school that enrolls students throughout New York State.As long as one of the three directions passes the entrance interview, you can enter high school for study.
This gives children from lower-class families who are artistically gifted a chance to make their mark.Without this performing arts college, children from families with poor economic conditions can only fight for art scholarships in private schools like Meg Tilly.
Then their ascending channel will be much narrower.
Director Alan Parker mainly introduced the plot of the movie "Hot Lunch", "This is a film that reflects the students of a public art high school. Eight students with different personalities, backgrounds, and majors have grown up in the performing arts college."
"We hope to do a large-scale audition in the performing arts college. The eight protagonists, 600 secondary roles, and [-] extras of the movie will all be selected in your school."
"Our performing arts high school is the largest and most comprehensive public art high school in New York. This is where such a movie should come. I'm still a fan of your last movie 'Midnight Train'." The principal said.
"We also hope to shoot scenes in your school. In addition, there are some teachers and principals in the movie. We also hope that your school teachers and you can play."
The headmaster smiled even more happily.
Several parties negotiated.On weekends, large auditions for the Performing Arts Academy are held.
Auditions will then take place in the school's auditorium.Two casting companies, each with 3 casting directors, separately select 8 candidates for the leading role.The students they think are suitable will be recommended to the director's classroom for a second round of interviews.
Ronald's job is to take audition photos for each selected student in the classroom of the second round of interviews, then develop and print two copies, and file them with the two casting companies respectively.
After inspecting the venue, Ronald had an idea and was about to leave when the producer Da Silva approached him again.
"Are you familiar with the script?"
Ronald nodded.
"What is the background of student Doris?"
"Jewish, good at singing, average-looking, a young version of Barbra Streisand."
"Very good, keep it up." Da Silva pointed to his ear, signaling to report immediately if there is any situation.
"If possible, can I ask why I did this?" Ronald asked seeing that Da Silva was in a good mood.It's uncomfortable being caught between producer and director like this.
David da Silva stopped and looked at Ronald:
"You know, Allen is a good director, but he's English. He doesn't understand our American mentality, we're built to win. In our films, the hero always wins over the villain , hug the beauty back."
no?Our Chief Jimmy is on TV acknowledging that America no longer has the moral superiority needed to lead the Allies.
But maybe the majority of the people still think so, Ronald knows that many people hate the term Grand Commander.
"I remember that if there is any change, please notify me immediately." The producer Da Silva left first.
Ronald returned to the conference room, waiting to send the director back to the casting studio.
Alan Parker was still chattering, discussing his script with the acting teachers.
"My philosophy is to truly reflect social reality issues. For example, race issues, class issues, so I set up the role of Leroy. He is from Harlem, has a gang background, is illiterate, but has a very high level of dancing. talent."
"The issue of underage pregnancy on high school campuses is a hot topic worth discussing. A white female student is pregnant with a black child. What should she do..."
"The problem of bullying on campus, the problem of gangsters, ..."
The teacher of the acting department was also a black man, wearing black-rimmed glasses and nodding frequently.He is very satisfied with and deeply sympathizes with Director Alan Parker's plot of blacks and poor people.
"But won't this cause everyone to misunderstand the high school of performing arts? Most of our students are still good students in the mainstream. If they all have this kind of role setting, it seems that our school is like a very dark place."
Another white female teacher muttered.
Ronald felt that if the conversation continued, something would happen.He stepped forward to interrupt the chat, and dragged Director Parker to the casting studio, where there were still actors selected yesterday to audition.
When they arrived at the casting studio, dozens of boys and girls were already waiting at the front desk with their managers. Ronald saw that Michelle, who looked like a cat, was also in the waiting queue.
"Okay, we can start" ordered producer Da Silva to start the audition.
One by one, the actors were called into the audition room one by one.Ronald was in charge of taking a Polaroid snapshot of them, recording and archiving the director's comments.
Then the director would give each actor a two-page script and ask her to act live.
This is the benefit of operating through a casting company.Casting studios are very familiar with actors and can quickly screen suitable candidates.If there is no casting director and only auditions are available, it will waste a lot of time.
The script given by the director first included Hillary doing a series of ballet moves in the practice room, and then a dialogue scene.
Ronald called the number.Actresses will first change into ballet training clothes and do a few simple rotations and positioning movements.
Then Howard Fell, the casting director, would make a cameo and have a few words with Hillary.
Ronald couldn't quite understand why it was set up like this.
He took down the director's comments and took the opportunity to ask Margaery from the casting studio.
Margery told him that the invitation for this audition indicated that the role of Hillary must be able to dance ballet, and at least at a quasi-professional level.
However, for the sake of audition opportunities, many actors often lie that they have the required skills, and then practice suddenly after they are selected.Such a session was set up today to screen out those who falsely claim to know ballet.
Sure enough, with a few simple movements, an actress who couldn't do ballet was screened out. She couldn't even do a simple one-leg stand and fell to the ground.Margaery was so angry that she wrote "lying" on her resume.
Ronald helped her out and called the next number by the way.
"Michelle... Michelle poof..., no; bahfu..., not right either."
After all, Ronald came from a time travel, so he was not very good at pronouncing this German-style spelling with two consonants together.
"It's Michelle Pfeiffer, P is silent," the cat-like girl laughed amused by him.
"Sorry," Ronald also smiled, "Michelle, it's you next, please go to the locker room and change into your exercise clothes, and then come in."
Michelle changed into a lavender exercise suit, white ballet stockings, and pale pink dancing shoes.The long golden hair that originally hung on both sides of the cheeks was tied up, and a loose bun was tied behind the head.In this way, her cat-like face is more prominent.
Ronald took a Polaroid snapshot of her and posted it on the audition form.It says Michelle Pfeiffer, blue eyes, 5 feet 7 (1.70 meters), 21 years old this year.
Her face was very young, and her voice was still high-pitched. If he didn't read the resume, Ronald would think that she was only under 18, and there was no problem playing a high school student.
"Get ready for the action, start, spin your legs, one circle, two circles, Arabesque." Margery pressed the play button of the tape recorder, and at the same time began to shout the password.
"Okay, here we go."
(End of this chapter)
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