I have a small role for a 10-year-old boy in my film that I'm afraid is going to be a nightmare to cast for and could really use some tips or suggestions.
In a nutshell, the kid appears in the very beginning of the movie, is coaxed into drinking a beer by his irresponsible uncle (who thinks it's perfectly okay to give a young child a beer while on a fishing trip) and then is killed by a werewolf.
The role would require the child to drink fake beer and then play dead with heavy FX makeup.
When I've work with kids before in FX I always invite their parents to bring them to my workshop to see how the prosthetics and blood is made, which they seem to really enjoy and takes the "scary" out of the process. But those kids had already gone through the auditioning process.
I've heard many horror stories about auditioning children and dealing with pushy stage parents. (I'm expecting to get a zillion questions about the beer-drinking and the FX involved.) I don't want to cut the scene because it really does set the mood for the story and I don't think having characters just talk about the incident would have the same emotional impact as showing it.
Can anyone give me some pointers as to what to watch out for during the auditioning process?
In a nutshell, the kid appears in the very beginning of the movie, is coaxed into drinking a beer by his irresponsible uncle (who thinks it's perfectly okay to give a young child a beer while on a fishing trip) and then is killed by a werewolf.
The role would require the child to drink fake beer and then play dead with heavy FX makeup.
When I've work with kids before in FX I always invite their parents to bring them to my workshop to see how the prosthetics and blood is made, which they seem to really enjoy and takes the "scary" out of the process. But those kids had already gone through the auditioning process.
I've heard many horror stories about auditioning children and dealing with pushy stage parents. (I'm expecting to get a zillion questions about the beer-drinking and the FX involved.) I don't want to cut the scene because it really does set the mood for the story and I don't think having characters just talk about the incident would have the same emotional impact as showing it.
Can anyone give me some pointers as to what to watch out for during the auditioning process?