Casting Call: The Morning After
April 16th, 2008During the two days prior to our casting call, we called and emailed the 250 people who signed up on www.westtexasvampires.com about the event. Here’s a few facts about the casting call party on April 15th at the Blue Light:
1. Y’all packed the house.
This is one of the best crowds that the Blue Light has seen on a Tuesday night. Thanks for coming out! Right around half of the people who signed up on the website actually showed up to read lines or offer their services in one way or another.
A lot of you had never been to the Blue Light before, so hopefully you’ll come back and hear some good music every now and then. You stand a pretty good chance of finding me up there if you ever want to hang out, especially when Ryan James or Wes Nickson are in town.
2. Over 100 of you wanted to participate.
Obviously, this movie centers around the Lubbock County Five and not the Lubbock County 100, so I’m going to have to make a few cuts. But that doesn’t mean we can’t still be friends, and that doesn’t mean you won’t be considered as a crew member or an extra for this future productions.
I’ve got 96 headshots of y’all, which I will be posting soon on the Sixgun Studios website for you to download and put on you FaceSpace or MyBook.
Speaking of social networking, stay tuned to that Sixgun site, because I’m going to add some features which will keep everyone networked and in the loop with West Texas Vampires and other upcoming productions taking off in the near future.
3. We’ll Get Back With You
The next step for us is to go through the forms and the 80 video clips we shot of people who read lines for the film. We’ll evaluate your reads and match you up to the characters written into the film. Then we’ll be calling everyone who came out to the casting call to let you know how we’d like you to participate!
Thanks to Sarah Whetstone for making all the phone calls! Thanks to David Brooks and the entire Blue Light staff for hosting this event! Thanks to Jerod Foster for documenting the evening with his camera, thanks to Dustin Six and Brittany Given for handling the logistics, Lance and Bobby and Cassidy for stepping up to help out, and a very special thank you to the girl standing to my immediate left in the photo above for not breaking my arm when I totally embarrassed myself by quoting a potentially incendiary line from a film she’d never heard of.
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