To Bring on a Casting Director

In my post about the casting tsunami, I winged a little about how much work it is to do all the leg work on casting.  Poor me (first world problems... at least I have clean drinking water... no clean cups in my cupboard, but the tap water is safe).

So, a nice young lady presented herself to me today as a Casting Director.  Hmm... I had never thought about it.  Up until now I had, at most, 50 people on a shoot (most of them extras) and I only did casting for maybe four to five stars.

We have 24+ speaking roles and spots for (literally) 150 extras.

Yeah.... I think that I need the help.  We're meeting on Sunday for a cuppa.  If things work out, I may be able to concentrate more on the fund raising.

Tax Invoices!

Yay!  Tax Invoices!  Woo Hoo!

There's a business side to film making and it involves tracking the dollars.

Our standard contract includes the stipulation that you invoice us using a tax invoice.  I assume that your average hobbiest actor doesn't deal with this a lot.  So, based on the Australian Tax Office's guidelines, I produced a Sample Tax Invoice that you can download and use.

Ain't I a sweetie?

Here's how I would work with this:

1. Go to the sample tax invoice
2. If you have a Google Account, copy it to your own Google Drive by clicking on "File" and then "Move to Folder" and pick a place on your Google Drive to store it.
3. If you don't have a Google Account, download it as a PDF or Excel Spreadsheet by clicking "File" and then "Download As..." 

When submitting your invoices, please send them to "accounts_payable@aangryAardvark.com" (should that be "aacounts_payable"?)

It's not as sexy as yelling "ACTION" for the first time, but it's part of the process.