UCF GENERAL CASTING CALL

UCF Center for Emerging Media
500 W. Livingston St.
Orlando, FL 32801
Map!

The event starts at 10am, but you should come a little earlier if possible.

Here is the schedule:
10am-1pm - 5 minute auditions in forum 1 & 2

1pm-2pm - Lunch

2pm-5pm - 5 minute auditions in forum 1 & 2

5pm-5:30pm - Director-actor Q & A session - debriefing

5:30pm-? - Director-actor meet and greet

All D2 students are required to attend for a minimum of 3 hours to receive full credit.

Bring materials to take notes, business cards, info about your productions. And if you have the opportunity, log on to the Casting Directory and see who is listed.

Parking is across the street from CEM, in the Bob Carr parking lot.

See you all there! I'm looking forward to a great event!

Final Shooting Schedule

Below is the final shooting schedule! A big thanks to all those who helped work this out!

My next post will be the Casting handout from yesterday as well as some additional links. Also keep an eye out for a post with all the info on the General Casting Call this Saturday.

Next week: Character Descriptions are due!

ALSO - email me and remind of any new project titles!

Group A: 9/26-10/2

Colton Kruse - We Are All Heroes  

Nicolas Inman - Hanging On 

Lacie Ratliff - Repressed 

Kade Dalton - The Audition

Group B: 10/3-10/9

Steven Simone - Untitled 2 

Sean Osorio - Meet Danielle

Marcos Olivia-Huaman - The Lion's Den 

Jessica Keller - The Georgia Study

Chelsie Holler - Arnold’s World 

Group C: 10/10-10/16

Michael Mangione - Proxies Allowed 

Nathan Graves - Free Water 

Jason Underwood - Tongues

Justin Lance - Culture of Fear

Nick Izvernari - Stuck 

Group D: 10/17-10/23

Christine Penxa - The Confines 

Matthew Crews - Priorities

John Marello - We Shall All Be Healed

Tu Do - Juliet

Nathaniel Stephenson - Sugar Baby

Group E: 10/24-10/30

Caitlin Trost - Christmas Fucking Dinner 

Justin Ward - Untitled

Jacob Sadowsky - Blackbox 

Kai Ettrick - Crook’d Clockwork

Josh Stone - Short Video #2

Hayden Greiwe - Some Tick of Some Kind

Shooting Schedule: First Pass

Ok, I've spent a lot of time moving people around and trying to work through everyone's scheduling conflicts. As you'll see, I have been unable to completely solve the puzzle. Someone must move out of Group C and someone must move into Group A.

I've listed as much crew info as I have, but perhaps you all can provide more information and help solve this schedule. You have the organization and camaraderie that most BFA classes could only dream of, so if anyone can solve this, it's you!

Please email me over today and the weekend and let me know any ideas you have, any conflicts that arise from this schedule. Complaints will be easiest for me to address if they are accompanied by a suggestion! :) The sooner we can lock the schedule, the better for everyone's productions.

THIS IS NOT THE FINAL SCHEDULE! LET'S WORK IT OUT:

Group A: 9/26-10/2

Colton Kruse - We Are All Heroes - prod. Caitlin, dp. Nathan 

Nicolas Inman - Hanging On 

Lacy Ratliff - Repressed - shares a lot of crew with Jessica

Kade Dalton - The Audition 

Group B: 10/3-10/9

Steven Simone - Untitled 2 - dp. Justin Lance

Sean Osorio - Meet Danielle

Marcos Olivia-Huaman - Untitled 

Jessica Keller - The Georgia Study

Josh Stone - Short Video #2

Group C: 10/10-10/16

Michael Mangione - Proxies Allowed 

Chelsie Holler - Arnold’s World - dp. Jason Underwood 

Nathan Graves - Free Water - dp. Colton

Kai Ettrick - Crook’d Clockwork

Justin Lance - Culture of Fear, prod. Cesar Rosario, dp. Tu Do

Nick Izvernari - Stuck - dp. Jessica, editing other D2s

Group D: 10/17-10/23

Christine Penxa - The Confines dp. Justin Lance

Matthew Crews - Priorities

John Marello - We Shall All Be Healed

Tu Do - Juliet

Nathaniel Stephenson - Sugar Baby- dp. Jessica

Group E: 10/24-10/30

Caitlin Trost - Christmas Fucking Dinner - prod. Matt dp. Jessica

Justin Ward - Untitled, dp. Justin Lance

Jacob Sadowsky - Blackbox 

Jason Underwood - Tongues

Hayden Greiwe - Some Tick of Some Kind

Week 2: Recap

Thanks for a great class yesterday! I hope everyone enjoyed the table readings, and I definitely enjoyed spending some individual time with you talking about your films. You all are making a great group of work this semester!

I have created a new page on the blog for housing all the reading assignments. You'll notice the tab above called "Readings." That is where you can find this week's homework, which is a reading on casting from Changing Directions.
Changing Directions pp. 75-99

The PDF for this reading is rather large, so the google doc link above won't have a preview and may warn you not to download it. I cross my heart this is not a virus and your computer will be fine if you download it. If you are still having trouble accessing the file, let me know. I'm gonna work on compressing it so it's easier to get to.

FOLLOW BY EMAIL - I have also added a follow by email tool on the right-hand side of the blog. This is an easy way to stay informed by receiving an email every time I make a blog post. Thank you, Caitlin, for the idea!

NEW OFFICE HOURS - I have changed my office hours (to have more!). They are:

Mondays, 10am-Noon
Tuesdays, 10am-Noon
Thursdays, 10am-Noon

Make note of the change but remember I will meet with any of you, any time you'd like (providing I am free, of course!).

STAY TUNED - I'm going to try and post a draft of the shooting schedule this week. Nothing will be set in stone, and I'll be looking to you all to work together to find the right compromises to get everyone's schedule adequate for their project. I'll send an email too, when I post the schedule draft.

If you are going to the game today, have fun! Otherwise, have a great holiday weekend. Remember to take a moment to think about all the hard labor this country was built on!

See you next time!

Class Tomorrow and Scheduling

DON'T FORGET - We are doing table readings tomorrow, so bring copies of your script for each speaking role + one for the person reading the action. You'll be casting your scripts with your classmates and we will see how many we can get through in the first hour and a half.

ALSO - we (me & Yesi & Tim) will be meeting individually with you to discuss your scripts. I've scheduled everyone with a meeting during class time. Six of you need to work out alternative meeting times with me. You have received an email already if you are one of those six! Get back to me asap!

It's going to be tough for me to give you all a definitive shooting schedule tomorrow. 
The fact is that you all want to shoot in the same two weeks and there isn't much I can do to fairly decide who gets the dates and who doesn't. Even if I based it on who turned in scripts on time with no issues, we have too many people vying for the same spots. We will talk more about it tomorrow. I have no doubt that you all are a tight-knit group who care about each others' production, so we can come up with some compromises.

If you want to shoot in group C or D and can function without UCF equipment, let me know during our meeting - that will make a huge difference!

See you all tomorrow!
Kate

Acting Methods Review

Thanks for a great class this week! I am excited to finally be meeting.

As I mentioned last Wednesday, due to the limited amount of weeks we have before everyone is in full production-mode, we will not really be covering acting methods in this course. My assumption is that a lot of you were exposed to various acting methods in the course Directing for Film.

If you did not get that information or just want to refresh your memory about the various methods, check out this excellent document from Jesse Wolfe. He does a great job of explaining the most commonly studied methods.

It is very important to understand the training your actors have had, in order to provide them with the best information they need to deliver a great performance.

Jesse Wolfe - Acting Methods Overview

Before class next, I'll be posting something and/or sending an email out about individual meetings. I'd like to iron out a schedule before class, so no one is stuck hanging around for longer than they need to.

Enjoying your scripts so far! Talk to you soon!

Course Syllabus, Graduate Students, WebCourses@UCF

Greetings! A final course update before we meet this coming Wednesday:

Syllabus

I have uploaded the course syllabus to the blog and sent a google doc link to you all in an email. Please let me know if you are having trouble viewing the syllabus and I'll send you a PDF. 

PLEASE NOTE: The syllabus for this course is not the Vow of Chastity or the course schedule! Those documents were distributed ahead of time to allow as much time for planning film scripts and shooting schedules as possible. Please take the time to look over the syllabus for grade breakdowns and course policy. We will be reviewing this document in class this week!

Graduate Students!

I am happy to announce that our class will be joined by graduate film students Yesi Lima and Tim Ritter. They are in the process of casting their own feature films and will be available as casting mentors for you and your projects. They have been through everything you are going through this semester and are excellent resources for advice on all stages of production. Yesi and Tim will also help us run the UCF General Casting Call.

We are very lucky to have these graduates as resources for our class, so get to know them if you don't already!

WebCourses@UCF

There will be a WebCourses section for this course, as means of keeping track of grades and assignment rubrics ONLY. WebCourses will become available starting Aug. 19th and you will be able to see all the assignments, their grade weight, and grading rubrics (coming soon!).

All outside of class communication will remain via email and the course blog, not WebCourses.

You are all responsible for keeping track of your grades on WebCourses and reporting any problems to me as soon as they arise. If you have not used the new WebCourses system, please take some time in the next week to familiarize yourself.

That's all for now! Everyone have great first week back, and I'll see you Wednesday!!