Final pre-audition review
With the auditions coming up next Sunday, we spent much of the weekend reviewing the series story arc and individual episodes, double checking for hero’s journey plot points, comedic rising action/risk/tension and character variation and compatability. We also wrote a lot of the character backstories, which won’t be used in the series, but the actors will use to tune their characters.
This gave us a more detailed description of the character and improvisational requirements, and allowed us to put together a final audition running order. It also meant we could remove some of the actors, as some of them are now inappropriate for certain roles. It has also meant we can expand the list of improvisors, to some who we’d not previously considered for roles.
Instead of auditioning the actual final characters, we’ve decided to use a series of improvised scenes which highlight certain relationships between characters and the actors’ improvisational skills. This way we can audition a group of actors at the same time, without giving too much series detail, and thus an advantage, to the first actors to get up and audition. We’re also locked into a group audition, because we don’t actually have a script which individuals may read for us on their own.