Casting!
Hello Everyone & Happy Spring
My digital tech & right hand man Isaac Schell is shooting a personal project and we are looking for the “characters” –
The project will be shown to gallerists and/or art & photography publications in hope of getting them shown to a wider audience in a fine art context.
DETAILS:
Date: April 15 & 16
Location: Studio in Bed-Stuy with set built to look like an old dive bar.
Rate: $150 for the shoot
Time: We will be shooting talent individually and will schedule 2-3 hrs per person, probably two people in the morning, crew break for lunch, then two-three people in the evening.
Meals: We will provide snacks, drinks, coffee, water.
Travel:We will provide Uber for the “Ma” character.
Casting Brief:
- “Ma” – Bar proprietor, old white woman, short, rail thin, puffy white hair, coke bottle glasses, Estelle Getty/Sophia Petrillo
- Lynn – Bar manager, middle-aged woman, long dark hair and brown eyes.
- Daughter #1 – A smaller, younger, shorter version of Lynn, in her mid-late 20’s, with dark hair, dark eyes.
- Daughter #2 – Also a smaller, younger version of Lynn, although she is tall and leaner than her sister.
- Dancers – (Burlesque Type) Must be comfortable being photographed partially nude. Photographed in a scenario right before dancing and right after. Focus on off moments after the dance. Sitting at the bar having a drink alone in their costume, in street clothes.
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