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4th January 2019 - Who makes decisions about
casting ?
Production company and it's
controller-representative has always the last word. This controller is the
person, whose signature is needed for casting list.
- If the owner of the production company is
involved with production ( as director, writer, etc. ) he-she naturally has
the last word.
- If production has big external investors, production company is not forced
to follow investors wishes. Usually they do.
- If movie has hired director, his wishes are usually taken to production.
Money, availability and conflicting opinions can cause exceptions.
Cast for smaller roles and extras come via hired
person, who gets credits from casting.
Cast for leading and bigger roles comes from the
team of director-producer-controller. In big movie company's own productions,
the controller hardly ever presents his-her own ideas about the cast for the
most important roles. The origin of the opinion is dependent on production
budget. The bigger it is, the higher it comes.
5th January 2019 - Education and training for acting ?
Movie, tv or ad actor doesn't necessarily need training. Great deal from
these actors studies and rehearses acting on their own. For a job in theater
and regular paychecks, you usually need a certificate from official training.
Big background crowds for recorded footage are often collected from the local
people. People without any earlier experiences from acting.
In most countries there is only one official educational level for acting. The institute, which maintains the education, can be university, college or school. Schools for actors are almost completely independent from the keeper's other branches. Regardless of the
keeper and country, the education you get, is pretty much the same. Need for
new actors is rather small, usually it is difficult get into official
training.
Besides official education, there are institutes, which has shorter courses
for acting. Oscar organization has provided education and educational material
for almost all jobs in movie making.
With or without education, you list yourself into caster's lists. Your
entry for listing is near model's better known portfolios. There are few
photos, physical dimensions, short description from you and your earlier jobs
as an actor ... and naturally contact information. You enlist yourself into
each movie company's and independent caster's potential casting lists. Then
you go into all publicly announced auditions.
System with porn and adult movies is pretty much the same.
Auditions end right or soon after supporting characters. Part from
one-scene leading roles goes without auditions. Scenes where you die, get
shocked-surprised-happy and so on. Almost all movies have these one-scene
leading roles. Since leading characters should live from the beginning to end,
shorter leading-supporting roles, which end to death are common. In romantic
comedies there are always loser suitors and loser women.
After auditions end, the remaining cast is chosen with the lists of potential cast. Typical
list has data from few thousand actors. Caster needs assortments of
actors to various ages, bodies, and so on. If the movie has for example a
scene at public gym, the caster needs to hire over 10 athletic extras for the
scene.
There aren't any other general
casting systems for movies.
10th January 2019 - Young actress can always lie down
to the casting coach. Get roles in return from sex ?
When you lie down, there is a chance, that the offered sex turns against you.
You get lots of invitations to auditions, interviews and private auditions. But
the only reason is the free sex. If you are given a good role, you get so much
money and reputation, that you do not have to offer free sex anymore. Because of
this, you cannot get roles against the offered sex. When this happens, quite
often you end up into adult sector. Hardcore photos and adult movies.
Traditionally those, who ask sex, have very little power to make decisions
about the important roles. In at least bigger and better paid productions.
6th January 2019 - Models, speakers, authors, painters
and musicians.
Models and speaker-hosts for public events are not picked from the streets
and cafeterias, either. Both have entries in selected agency or agencies.
Typical actor and model have and maintains entries for all three jobs.
Authors send their works to companies, that publishes books and poems.
After you find a publisher for your first book, you get a deal for the rest.
Painters offer their first works to art galleries. After you find one, you
usually deliver the rest of your works to same company. Cheaper paintings are
popular living room decorations. In average western households have more than
one painting hanging on the wall.
World of music and also the demand are so small, that there aren't laboring
system for pop-rock singers and players. Jobs come-and-go through acquaintance
network and record companies. After you or your band gets some name, your
concerts are sold by some agency. Sometimes band members are searched with
small ads in magazines and newspapers. If some band or background band need
new players, it is almost always announced at band's web site.
For a recording-publishing deal singer or band makes a demo recording. You
burn it or them onto CD, and send it to record companies and-or their branches.
The demo CD can contain covers and self made songs. Before you sign the deal,
you must read it. Or get it read by someone, who knows something from the
legal systems around the literal deals. Artists, composers and lyric writers
share from the sales is around 10% from the sales. Around 30% in total.
Same goes to deal, you make with an unknown manager. Manager you do
personally know. Worst deals forces you to pay wages to manager, when you do
not get a single cent from music sales. And from music sales, you donate most
to the slime-like manager.
6th January 2019 - New policies
Really big million dollar ad-deals from the base businesses
are nowadays widely available only to professional-famous models. Big ad-deals
belong to models career and work. Other celebrities have intruded to models
world. Ad-deal with celebrity is usually taken from models. Company can
have only one promotional face at the time. One- and summertime modeling for
young girls obviously scraps part from the bigger deals.
Investments to movie production from the investment sector
are limited. Same limitations were acquired also to product placements and
shooting locations.
In other words, you have to earn the big earnings. With
ticket and record-movie sales. When compared to bold claims, the actual
earnings from promotions and ads are very small ... marginal. Usually we
talk about charitable donations and alms. Idea of making charity, give support
and alms to bold, hostile operators, who always wants-and-tries to ruin
everything, is impossible. This includes taxes, politics and others.
Typical ad, without special offer, has zero effect to next day sales. When
ad has a special offer, the lower profit margin from the offer itself, needs
to be covered with additional sales. The old flat 30% ATS gains to worldwide
offer-free sales, were and are dreams ... impossible ... to others.
From the best selling movie or TV series, famous actor gets
as much as before. Also then, when the fees and wages are bound to grosses.
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In principle movies and tv series fee system works against
longer life and sequels. Actors fees raises from sequel-to-sequel or
season-to-season principle. On the other hand grosses and proceeds almost
always falls with each new sequel-season. When actors final fees are bound to
grosses, you get a chance to make and play in additional sequel-seasons.
Although the highest fees per sequel raises, they never raise to impossible
levels. Like it often happens with fixed fees.
Almost 60 years old James Bond movies are the only major
exception to the falling gross-proceed system. 25+1 sequels makes one best
selling release every 2nd year. First Star Wars movie was released in 1977.
8+2 movies in 42 years makes one release every 4th year.
8th January 2019 - When was the profession of model
born ?
Modern ad, catalogue and fashion show modeling was born soon after camera
was invented. Modeling blossomed after printing tech allowed you to embed
photos into printed papers, newspapers and magazines.
Color printing was invented before color photos. After second world war,
during 1940s and 1950s modeling declined quite a lot. Most from expensive
illustrated ads and other promotional stuff was drawn by artists. After color
photos came, modeling blossomed again. Second boom and current state began in
early 1960s.
Although modeling declined after WW II, it didn't die. BW photos started to
vanish from magazines in early 1980s. Newspapers used BW photos until
millennium time and modern digital print systems.
Companies started to make bigger ad deals with models and mistresses around
100 years ago. Typically the event, where you chose the model, was public
beauty competition. Companies had also ad-deal holder like radio voices.
Celebrities started to ask these deals to themselves in 1980s.
Ad deals are actually agreements from the employment. In between the model
and deal-maker company. Deal maker company has always highest priority in your
scheduling. More than two or three yearly photo shootings are excepted in
return for the million dollar paycheck. In actual business world you must
always work for the money. Big charitable donations, from nothing, are not
possible.
11th January 2019 - Published deals, fees and other
incomes.
When you publish celebrities earnings and fees, you must always use
verified numbers and data. Personal incomes belong to people's privacy. Only
one, who is allowed to freely publish income data is the person him-herself.
If local IRS for example publishes tax records, it is a violation against
human rights. In common businesses payroll applications and databases have
always the highest security and secrecy systems. Company's book keeping and
banking systems have the 2nd highest securities. Book keeping and payment
systems misses embedded scrambler functions.
Company, who pays the fee, needs a literal permission for publishing the
fee. If the right is wanted, it is usually written into the signed agreement,
from the job you are doing.
Exaggerated incomes and fees attracts all kinds of greedy scums, who tries
cheat and collect money from you. Part from commoners dislikes celebrities
with big salaries. Belittled incomes can result into other kind of problems.
If your standard fee is £65 000 and Sun talks about £5 000, you can be asked
... and are often also asked ... to work with this publicly announced £5 000
fee. When this happens, Sun can be sued from the attempt to ruin your
reputation and personal economies.
13th January 2020 - So Hard on movies
You are very hard on mainstream actors.
Some mainstream actors and their agents are very
hard and selfish on other actors and crews, who works with the movies.
Oversized fees forces others to work with minimum wages and marginal
working hours.
There is a limit for grosses one movie can make.
Much more tighter now and in the future. You cannot go to big companies,
and ask alms for covering the losses for a movie, with heavily oversized
budget.
In principle. If actors fees are over 80% from
production budget, all you needed is theater like simple settings and
effects, for collecting the required grosses for making the movie
profitable. If you cannot do that, the wages share is too big. Too big for
fair wage policies.
If movie's worldwide grosses are 1.5 billions,
the production company could get around 600 millions. From this production
company takes it's own share and reservation-coverage for lossy
productions. If original budget was 150 millions, the surplus for xMas
bonuses could be around 300 millions.
With same assumptions and one billion worldwide
grosses, production company's share falls to 400 millions, which results
to 150-200 million bonuses. With one billion grosses, the actual
production budget raises from 150 millions to over 300 millions. The bonus
doubles original fees and wages.
Take it or leave it ?
This is not an offer or instruction. I have nothing
to do with mainstream movies and media companies anymore. Totally out of
business. Same goes to sports. European soccer and aired motor sports are
included. Sugar oil rally series is the only thing, that might get some
support and sponsor money via me, in the future.
How about those million dollar ad deals, models
get. Are they oversized ?
No. They are small, when compared to deal maker
company's overall wage costs and yearly revenues. They are not the biggest
fees and wages companies pay, either. CEO and executive team has always
matching and bigger wages. One useless advertising campaign costs usually
more than one ad-deal.
When you play in a sequel big fees are paid from
earlier successes profits.
Yes, of course. Rest of the cast and crew ... quite
often also director ... are almost always changed in between sequels.
Old-n-new cast-crew works with marginal wages and hours. Workers and their
unions make big donations to such oppressive systems impossible. Also in
the situation, where you bring a dime in return for a big donation. They
have that solidarity system in their papers and blood. They ban companies
and operators, who violates common rules for work and wage payments.
Sequel system doesn't work with singular movies.
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