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CASTING CALL – Actors Wanted in Chicago Illinois

Open Casting Casting for male actors Male Actors (18-35) age range for Civil War televison special! A four-hour television special on the Civil War is now holding auditions for eight main roles, featured roles and extras.

The story will be told from the point of view of the soldiers.

Talent Breakdown:

Male actors (18-35), physically fit. Must be in the Chicago area and Non-Union with Stage combat, ability to grow facial hair, Boston or Southern accent a plus. Prefer some experience but no experienced talent is considered.

To submit for this project, you will need to email your headshot, resume and contact info.  Be sure to let them know how you heard of this audition too.

To submit, visit the efm forums and click on the Illinois, Casting Call Category. To access the forums, visit extrasformovies.com and click on the efm forums at top of page.

All details on casting calls are located in the forums, there is no fee to review and submit for open calls in the forums.

 *If selected, you will need to be available on February 24th, 2011 for auditions.

Expires: March 2011

Talent Type: Casting call for a male actor in the area of Chicago free November 21-27. We won’t be filming through all those days, mainly Sunday-Tuesday, they are just left open in case a shot is needed. I will only accept actors in the immediate Chicago area.

He visits different temples, different monasteries; he searches among modern art and in the midst of the masses. He begins reflecting upon the world–nature, people, hurriedness, etc. We see the hurriedness of society. The impatience of people’s lives. Cars flying by. People passing and going. All the while Aden thinks and thinks…

 

His inner contemplation and growing calmness is reflected by shots of stillnessflowing autumn leaves, grasses, and waterthat contrast the shots of hurriedness in the streets of the city. But overtime, Aden understands that it does not matter where he travels to; it does not matter if he is in a Zen garden, in a Tibetan temple, or a Hindi temple. It does not matter if he is sitting alone or standing in the middle of the bustling streets of Chicago, peace is not there unless it is within him.

 

Again, to visualize what goes on here, we’ll move from a spectrum of different shots to centralize on key objects. We’ll move from vast, wide shots to narrow, concentrated shots of detailed images (see shot list below). As Aden becomes enlightened, we focus in on his face more and more, growing less weary and more blissful. We tie his face to various statues or images of Buddha, creating visual connections between Aden and Buddha. As he grows, the world too grows into a beautiful, blue skied paradise.

 

The streets, too, calm to a beautiful spectacle of harmonious interactions. The turning point for Aden is learning that he can be within peace even when in the most chaotic setting. Visually interpreted, we’ll use overcranked footage of him in Chicago, happy instead of weary, saturated instead of grayed, slowed instead of hurried. To sum it all up, the narrative moves visually from wide to narrow shots, focusing on chaos to peace within individual objects, and from grayed to more saturated color schemes.

Click here to submit for this Chicago Audition

Expires November 2010