So last Friday we got to shoot in the black box in addition to holding auditions. The overall process of casting was very slow since only a few people showed up and actually auditioned for the role. But I was glad I got to go all out with the lighting and make it look good. I got to shoot with the URSA Mini (finally!) and between that and the lighting it looked pretty good!
I think from here on out I'm going to dial it back and not go all out for lighting because now it's mainly just shooting everything and getting plenty of B-Roll. No need to setup a light to shine through a window for better dynamic range. In fact, I may go with some darker backgrounds, maybe even all black backgrounds, for the remainder of the interviews we do. The reason I wanted to have the auditions look so good is because I wanted a sense that it was staged, but also being 100% real at the same time. I believe we'll show audition clips towards the middle-end of the film, so it'll be transitioning from a false mockumentary into a behind-the-scenes documentary.
As for our next interview, I want to film our actor, who is Anthony, as himself talking about what he expects out of this experience, why he wants to do this, and even what he thinks will happen. Just a very simple interview setup and hopefully after that we can officially move onto marketing his performance and start getting the word around about this "ghost writer" for SNL and part-time stand up comic.
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