A message to auditionees
Hi everyone!
I just wanted to take a moment to thank every one of you who has taken the time to audition and those who plan to audition for my project. This project is a complete labor of love as these characters have been with me since my days in college. But it was only recently that I finally took the plunge to write a story for them. And at the encouragement of a friend to search for an animator, I was very fortunate to cross paths with my animator Juliane who was so kind enough to work with me and get some of my script animated.
Here's her demo reel if you want to take a look!
https://vimeo.com/868845937?share=copy
For anyone who may be wondering why only 40 seconds, it's simply because animation is a very time-consuming and costly medium so animating my whole script would simply be too expensive. So we agreed upon animating the last 40 seconds, and the last 40 seconds is a pivotal moment in Owen and Shannon's relationship, as they want to go together to the dance, but Shannon says yes to another guy named Sal due to her sympathy for him, and Owen being the softy he is couldn't bring himself to speak up. But after the dance and the drama that happened with Sal, Owen, and Shannon share a heartfelt conversation and intimate moment. If there's ever a moment in my script I want to see animated, it's this moment.
All of you have been so talented and sweet that it's going to be a difficult decision to make when I get to casting. Also, I am holding auditions for this project outside of CastingCallClub so I may cast an actor outside of this site so do be aware.
But also know that just because I didn't cast you, it's NOT because you're not talented or have a bad voice, quite the opposite, nor anything personal whatsoever, but I'm simply looking for the right fit for each role and I have to make a decision that I'm happy with long term, as I plan on using my casted actors as my go-to whenever I decide to have something animated with them again, they're like my Mickey and Minnie you could say. But I will keep note of every person I have auditioned, as I might reach out to some of you for a different role I feel you may be a good fit for in a future project. As a fellow actor myself, I know the struggle all too well of finding work so best believe I'm only doing what's best for my project. I wish all of you luck in your journeys and I know you all will be great in whatever you do get cast in if you don't get cast in this. I want all of us to make it.
So that's what I have for you all, keep up the great work, the deadline is September 28th so anyone who wants to audition is still welcome to and I hope you all take care!
Keep reaching the stars my lovelies!
