Casting Call - Great Responses

We put out our casting call on StarNow this week, and we have had a great response.

By far and away, we have had the most applicants for Daria, the female lead and love interest of Gabe and Evan (and, Pascual, for a brief time).

Next, we have had the most interest in the role of Gabe, then Marie, and Evan.

If you want to apply for a role, you can do it by applying on StarNow -or- you can e-mail your CV, including a head and body shot and an optional link to a showreel (even a YouTube video of you reading a poem - but not singing - is great), to casting@AangryAardvark.com.

I have really struggled to balance my commitment to openness with wanting to do what's right for the people applying.  What I DON'T want to do it to discourage anyone from applying - the 71st Daria might be the PERFECT person!  I also don't want to discourage the 69 Daria's that won't get the role.  Or, maybe, in seeing that there is a huge number of applicants for this role, it will make it easier if you don't get the part.  I don't know - I'm not an actor and don't have a lot of experience on that side of the equation.  Leave your opinion in the comments.

Some other things of note: I spelled "Enthusiastic" in "Enthusiasic Female Student" incorrectly on the listing (fixed it here).  Did anybody notice that?  I hand't until I copied and pasted it into this blog entry and my spell checker quacked at it.  And, of course, you can't change the listings once someone has applied.  Le sigh....

Here's the numbers (as of about 16:00 18 Jan 2014):

• 70 Daria
• 30 Gabe
• 25 Marie
• 17 Lady in Coffee Shop
• 16 Evan
• 16 Rosario
• 14 Enthusiastic Female Student
• 14 Jessica
• 13 Jerk #1
• 12 Richard Price
• 11 Pet Store Employee
• 11 Parker
• 10 Pascual
• 09 Girlfriend of Drunk Kid
• 08 Drunk Kid
• 08 Emergency Room Doctor
• 07 Brunette in Bar
• 07 Robbie
• 06 Master of Ceremonies
• 05 Garland
• 05 Dr. Schomberg
• 04 Ashley - Girl at Nightclub
• 03 Sanjeep
• 02 Old Dude

We've had some great people apply for all of the roles.  Many of them have indicated that if they didn't get a lead, that they'd be willing to do just about any other role.

Thank you, all of you who have applied for a role.  We wish that we had a whole cast of Darias and Gabes and... a leading role for all of you.  But, alas, it cannot be.  You're all stars in my eyes.

Location, Location, Location....

It's true in real-estate and it's true in filmmaking: Locations can make or break you.

We are currently on the hunt for the following locations for Good With Words:

• A two bedroom apartment - clean.  Occupied by two men, one in a wheelchair
• Bedroom 1
• Bedroom 2
• Kitchen 
• Livingroom
• Hallway
• Stairwell
• A dormitory room or an apartment.  Occupied by two women.
• Bedroom
• A restaurant dining room.  If they have a large aquarium, that is a bonus.
• University
• A small university lecture hall
• A university classroom
• A university professor's office (literature professor)
• A university professor's office (psychology professor) - with a "Freudian psychoanalytic couch" would be perfect
• Basketball court (interior)
• Food Court / Dining Hall
• Campus Green
• A bowling alley
• A swimming pool used to practice competitive swimming
• Gymnasium
• A gymnasium (university would be great)
• Locker room for gym
• Hallway by locker room
• Movie theatre (exterior)
• Coffee shop
• Doctor's Examination Office
• Hospital
• Hallway
• Waiting room
• Patient Room
• Nurses Desk
• General sidewalks
• Dog friendly park (large crowd scene)
• "Inspiration Point" (a place with a good view to park your car and make out)
• Basketball court (exterior)
• Dicso
• University Bar

I'm missing a few in here - but I'll add them once I've gone through the shot list again.

If you have a suggestion for a film-friendly and budget-friendly location for one of the above, please contact us at "locations@AangryAardvark.com" and one of our production staff will get back to you as soon as possible.

Location Scouting - Hospitals

Shooting at a hospital is proving a little worrisome.

The largest hospital in our region is the Joondalup Health Campus.  They have informed us that we won't be able to film there because they do not have the space.  All of their wards are fully operational and they cannot have a film crew in disrupting the patients.

They have directed us to a state agency that oversees hospitals.  They have a list of hospitals with closed wards.  I am assuming that they are temporarily closed due to inactivity and not decrepit messes with leaky ceilings and paint dripping off of the walls

Is this where we can film?

We have a contact number to call in the morning.  As always, the intrepid E.D. is on the case, running down the leads while I, the Chief Bottle Washer and Fire Marshall, is off raising funds.

Some hospitals have published guidelines about bringing in film crews.  St. George's University in London, has a price chart and hours available all on-line.  (Our shoot would cost us about AU$730).

Kinigston Hospital (also in the U.K.) charges about AU$1,800 for a four hour window.

The fine folks at Joondalup, didn't really seem to have a plan in place.  Perhaps I am the first person to ask.

Today I have broken new ground in medical-entertainment relations in the name of my art.   Now it is time to sleep.

Character Summaries

The character summaries have been moved to Google Drive.  Please see them there.

And They're Off....

We have a verbal agreement in place with the author of "Good With Words", a modern retelling of the classic play, "Cyrano de Bergerac".

Now that we have a title for our production, we can create a blog using that name... and here you are, you lucky reader!

Please follow us along and learn from our mistakes, copy our successes and cheer us on as we race towards the finish line.