Pre-Production Unit: Starnow to Gather a Cast

I have recently begun fulfilling my role as a producer by beginning to scout potential talent for our film's characters. I did this by creating a advertisement on the website "Starnow". Starnow is a worldwide website where creative minds can advertise their projects, or register themselves to a database so that they can be found and contacted by employers to work on projects.
From the success my classmates have had with the website in the past, and the benefits of having applicants being able to apply and immediately give me access to view their previous works, photographs and biography, I decided to begin my search here.
I began by creating a new advertisement which would give a basic outline of the film's plot, so that any interested applicants would immediately get a feel of the kind of tone we want to set with our film.

I also gave some idea of each character so that applicants would get a feel for the kind of role they would be taking on. At the point of this blog post, I have already had 4 applicants for two of the characters I have made listings for, and so I think this was definitely the best course of action to take when looking for actors.

You may notice that we have also listed the positions we have advertised as "expenses paid." This was an attempt to entice more applicants to our project, as something I have noticed is that more people will apply for something if they feel their is no financial loss on their end. A lot of actors want to be paid for their work, but unfortunately we do not really have the budget to do so. We can however see if we can be able to pay for trains and petrol so that the actors that apply do not actually lose any money by coming to act for us.

We also believe we may be able to provide catering for actors on the day of filming.