Director POV: The Audition begins ... when? (click to read entire post)
As a director always looking for talent that I know that I can work alongside, the audition begins well before the actor walks in the audition room.
For our film CUT!, actors were coming in for the Director/Producer call-back.For the audition, actors had to be buzzed in to the casting building. I was standing outside with two actors who had just walked up. Neither knew I was the director. As they, along with me, waiting to be buzzed in, it became obvious that the person manning the door had