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Howdy, as we mentioned earlier, Stonehenge Casting will be down for some planned maintenance this weekend up until approximately 5pm Sunday.
In the meantime, enjoy the song stylings of Strong Bad. (Yes, we are Homestar Runner fans here at Team J).
We will post again when the site is back up and running.
This weekend, Stonehenge Casting, Team J’s online casting tool, will have a “planned site outage.” That’s how IT folks say, “The website is down, but we know because we took it down.”
From roughly 7pm ET this Friday, August 28th until 5pm ET on Sunday, August 30th, you will not be able to access Stonehenge Casting.
If you’re a producer, please be sure to download and export any information on actors you might need during the weekend before Friday evening.
If you’re an actor, you’re welcome to update your profile this week, but will not be able to access the site from Friday through the weekend.
Why are we doing this? To accomplish three things:
There will be follow-up announcements about when the site officially goes down and returns on this blog, on our Stonehenge Casting Facebook page, and our Twitter feed.
Testing is underway and we’re eager to get the next version of Stonehenge Casting up and running.
Barring kaiju attacks or other unforeseen events, we plan to launch the latest version of the site in June. Okay, July. Fine, August. Maybe a bit of September, just let us get the goodness up, okay?
Update: We have had a kaiju attack. Okay, not exactly, but our development team did feel a little like the Golden Gate Bridge due to some coding issues.
For actors and other performers, this is a pretty hefty update, including:
For Producers, we’re doing some “renovations” to your side of the site and including some goodies along the way, including:
We’ll confirm the exact time as we get closer to the launch date, but feel free to go ahead and update your free Stonehenge profile now, because:
Keep watching here, the TwitterVerse, and that FaceSpace site for additional information about Version 0.4 of Stonehenge Casting.
The Arboretum is a short drama being shot in Maryland under a SAG-AFTRA Student Film Agreement.
We are looking for about 20 background performers to serve as nightclub patrons on Monday, March 30th from 3pm to 8pm in Edgewater, Maryland (near Annapolis).
Note: To match the setting to the 20-something leads and their story, we’re skewing younger with the nightclub patrons, so we’re looking for 20s to mid-30s. We realize this precludes The Most Interesting Man in the World, but there it is.
We are offering credit and copy.
If interested, please submit via Stonehenge Casting: http://www.stonehengecasting.com/project_details.aspx?project_id=7
(If you don’t already have a profile, registration is free for actors).
[Note: Team J is supporting this casting, we only list casting notices on our website that we ourselves are working on.]
Account 24 Productions is looking for two women for a short drama, The Arboretum, being shot under a SAG-AFTRA Student Film agreement (union and non-union may apply).
Synopsis
Sarah is a woman full of regrets about her life unaware she is already dead. In a kind of purgatory, she is confronted by Emily, a shadowy side of her consciousness, as she comes to terms with her actions, which may include the accidental death of her boyfriend.
Roles:
Sarah (Caucasian, female, mid-to-late 20s)
Attractive “girl next door.” Sweet, but with a wild side. She has grown up privileged and now deals with being on her own as an adult for the first time. She likes to place blame for her misfortunes on others and adopt a “woe is me” attitude. Smart, but stubborn, she loves drama, but not the aftermath that comes with it.
Emily (Caucasian female, mid-to-late 20s)
Emily is an imagined character: the embodiment of everything bad that Sarah has wanted to do. Emily is an enabler, and in a sense, Sarah’s voice for everything Sarah wants to hear, but cannot admit to herself, whether out of anger or happiness.
Compensation: $100/day plus credit and copy.
Auditions will be by appointment Sunday, March 8th at American University in Washington, DC.
The shoot will be two days: Sunday, March 22nd and another day TBD — both in Baltimore, MD.
Links to demo reels and sample clips optional, but highly recommended.
For consideration, submit your headshot and resume by Wednesday, March 4th at 5pm via Stonehenge Casting at: http://www.stonehengecasting.com/project_details.aspx?project_id=6
We’ll have more details as we get closer, but we wanted to let everyone know that Team J –and specifically Stonehenge Casting– will be at the Women in Film and Video (WIFV) Media Job Fair this March. Specifically, it’s on Saturday, March 28th from 12 noon to 3:30pm in downtown DC (Gallery Place/Chinatown).
You can learn more about the event at the link above, but in general it’s a great way for film and media freelancers to talk to companies about new opportunities. We’ll be there demoing Stonehenge for interested producers and hopefully have a spare laptop for actors to set up their profiles.
Team J has been asked to potentially support rush casting for political ads created in response to events and other political spots this election cycle.
Because of the fast turnaround nature of these spots, we’re looking to assemble a roster of actors who have availability between October 6 and October 31.
We will contact specific actors with specific details depending on the spot. Right now, we understand there might be both non-union and union projects, both at respective commercial rates.
We are using Stonehenge to collect and organize our submissions. If you already have a profile there, just log in and submit. If you don’t have a profile already, you can create one for free. If you’re already logged in, you can go right to the project link.
Under the “Roles” field, please indicate what general category or categories you wish to be considered for:
Everyman/Everywoman
Whether it’s an earnest young professional or a concerned retiree, we’re looking for all ages and ethnicities of everymen and everywomen. Character actors, your time is now. Chiseled jaws need not apply.
Background performers
While less likely, there is the possibility that we would have a setting requiring background performers, so if you have availability and interest in background work, let us know.
Voiceover
Whether you need to be an authoritative expert OR an earnest citizen about why we need more OR less regulation regarding [issue], we’re looking for both male and female voiceover artists. Note: these will most likely be SAG-AFTRA, but please also submit if you are a non-union voiceover artist.
We look forward to working with many of you.
If you’ve been following the announcements, you know that:
We’re going page by page in your profile and feature by feature. You can get the full list in the original announcement.
If you went through the previous articles, you’ll have taken care of a number of updates to your profile and even checked how your profile appears to prospective employers.
One of the new features for this version is the Project module, which you will see as a tab when you log in.
Once you click on the tab, you’ll see all the projects producers that are currently open — which you will be able to sort through.
If you recall the preferences you entered into your new Project & Preferences page, you might be wondering if you’ll eventually be able to sort by those criteria. Our plan is to add that functionality in a future update.
In any case, once you click on a project title, its detail page will come up:
Here you should see the information you need to decide whether or not the project is a right fit, including the payscale and production dates.
In some cases, a producer may send you a private link to a project (not unlike a link to a private YouTube video). Please follow the producer’s instructions regarding the privacy of the link.
For a private project link, you will likely need to paste the link into your browser, potentially logging into Stonehenge again for the detail page to come up correctly.
In either case, if you decide the project is one you’d like to submit for, go ahead and click the submit button at the bottom of the detail page:
Once you do, the role field will pop up. In the case of multiple roles mentioned in the casting notice (consider how many we had for the Broken Continent), this is where you’d want to specify which roles you’d like to be considered for.
Once you have entered that information, go ahead and click the “Submit” button again. You should get a “completed” message like this:
Your profile will now appear in the producer’s submission folder. Easy for you, even easier for producers to review.
No promises that you’ll be called in to audition or get the part: in that way, Stonehenge online is just like the in-person auditions. We do hope you all break an electronic leg, though.
If you’ve been following the announcements, you know that:
We’re going page by page in your profile and feature by feature. You can get the full list in the original announcement.
If you went through the previous article, you saved updates to the Attachments & Links page.
The next feature new to version 0.3, is not a field you need to update, but it has been one of the features most requested by actors since we launched last year: how do they see what their profile as the producers see it?
Now you can, and there’s several different ways you can do it.
After you log in –and assuming you have created an actor/performer profile– you’ll see a link to view the actor/performer profile right on the home page.
In addition, at any point in the while you’re updating your profile, you’ll notice that there’s a link to see the “producer’s view” at the bottom right of each profile page.
Remember, you’ll need to save whatever changes you’re making to that particular profile page for them to show up on the producer’s view.
In both cases, you’ll notice that your browser opens a new window or tab with what the producers see.
If you already have that producer’s view open, refresh your browser whenever you make a change to see it reflected.
We hope this, along with some of the other improvements in version 0.3 help you get better use out of Stonehenge.
As reported in the original post there was an unplanned site outage for Stonehenge starting around 10:30am ET due to a DDoS attack on our hosting provider.
We’re pleased to announce the issue appears to have been resolved as of 3:30pm ET or so, and we’ve confirmed Stonehenge is accessible.
We apologize for any inconvenience, and if Stonehenge is part of your Autumnal equinox plans, you still have time.
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