Cast It Systems

If you’re demanding DVDs from your casting directors, agents and managers, please take some time today to throw them into the recycle bin. And remember, Cast It is the online casting resource that helps to lighten up your production’s carbon footprint.

This week, Thursday night, Cast It will be hosting both beginner and advanced training sessions at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood.

If you would like to attend, please send an rsvp email to: info@castitsystems.com

Beginner session will cover: adding actors to lists, uploading auditions and reels, providing access to users, filtering access for different users, emailing video links and sending email invitations to upload.

Advanced session will cover: phone sheet messaging system, setting up session sheets, ActorCast submissions, and other time saving tricks.

Congratulations to Kathleen Chopin, Sylvie Brochere, Nina Gold, and Tracy Kilpatrick, the casting directors behind HBO’s new series, “John Adams”. With over 130 different roles, and casting in London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles, Cast It played an integral part in the making of this epic series.

The top 5 grossing movies from last weekend were all Cast It projects. Congratulations to Sarah Finn and Randi Hiller, the casting directors for “Vantage Point”.

iPhone users can now view their auditions on Cast It. Of course, they will want to be using the phone in WiFi mode in order to get the video clips to play effectively. We already have a number of producers using their iPhones to view auditions from Cast It!

Cast It managed the casting process for all 5 of this weekend’s top movies. In fact, 8 of the top 10 movies all used Cast It for sharing actor info and auditions!

Congratulations to Jumper.

How big is the carbon footprint of your production? Think of all the energy consumption and waste just in the casting process alone. DVDs, DVD cases, tapes, actor packets, envelopes, paper, couriers, FedEx, and the gas required to move those auditions around town and the world.

Cast It totally eliminates the need to burn DVDs, duplicate tapes and then have them messengered to the various producers and executives who need to see them. The entire process now is online. Just think of the plastic you’ll save by using Cast It, and remember then how much petroleum it takes to make those discs and cases.

Make your production more environmentally sensitive. Do you absolutely need to see that audition on your TV that had to be burned to a plastic DVD, stuffed in an envelope and driven to your office?

Use Cast It and help save the planet.

After a hugely successful winter training session, we’re now currently planning this spring’s training seminar for new and advanced Cast It users. Learn about the system or go in-depth with Cast It experts to find out the best time-saving techniques to get your sessions online ASAP.

Our sister site, ActorCast has started its beta program. Any actors, agents or managers interested in trying this new service should sign up and try it now for free.

In case you missed it in December, Cast It made the InfoTech section of Business Week. Here’s the text of the article by Ron Glover:

HOLLYWOOD CLICKS AND A CAST APPEARS
Forget cattle calls. Hollywood now goes online to cast many movies and TV shows thanks to a MySpace for talent agents called Cast It Systems. At $4,000 for a feature film and $2,000 for a TV pilot, most Hollywood studios and two of the Big Four TV networks use the password-protected site to create pages devoted to hot projects. Barry Josephson, producer of the Walt Disney (DIS) film Enchanted, approved director Kevin Lima’s choice of Amy Adams for the lead role of Princess Giselle after seeing an online video of her reading a script. Created by film producer Eric Hayes and dot-com entrepreneur Chris Gantos, Cast It now is moving on to Broadway plays and ad spots.

—By Ronald Grover