WHAT DO CASTING DIRECTORS LOOK FOR IN CHILD ACTORS?

1) A child actor meets the casting director at an audition, where he is asked to do what is in script and then he is waiting for a call-back.

2) The casting director personally meets every child actor and works with them on his own without any assistants.

3) Sometimes the casting director is out of the room but he can look after the process from his office and he can see every child who auditions to play a part.

4) The casting director is extremely busy and interviewing every child actor takes much time, so he can’t afford such a luxury.

5) It is the casting director’s assistants’ work to interview a child actor before the audition: they talk to the kids and tell them what they should do.

6) Parents are not allowed to be with the children in the room because they will only slow down the process and make their children nervous and tense.

7) The casting director is absolutely indifferent to the child’s appearance.

8) Gabrielle Schary says that parents could only be there, watch the audition calmly and don’t ask a million questions.

9) Gabrielle Schary always looks for child actors in schools and in local shows, she considers that only there she could find something really specific and unusual.

10) The acting classes are very expensive that’s why Gabrielle Schary never looks for child actors there moreover it is not a guarantee of a good result of the search.

11) Gabrielle Schary says that she has never heard of discovering a kid on the street by casting directors.

5. You will hear an interview with a British film director, Ann Howard, who has recently made a film in Hollywood. For questions 1-5, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. You will hear the recording twice.

1. Why did Ann go to work in Hollywood?

A She liked the studion system.

B She needed to work independently.

CHer aim was to make a film about Hollywood.

DHer films were successful.

2. What does she see as the main problem with the film she made in Hollywood?

A It was set in America.

B It was not meant to be a comedy.

CIt was rewritten in parts.

D It used American actors.

3. On balance, she found the experience of directing the film

Adepressing.

B confusing.

Crewarding.

D fascinating.

4. What is her main criticism of the preview system?

AThe audience is made up of film critics.

B The films are not previewed in enough places.

C The audiences go with the wrong attitude.

DThe questions asked are not appropriate.

5. She feels that film previews are useful

A as a marketing tool.

Bif the director uses the information.

Cwhen the audience pays to see them.

Dbefore films are shown on television.

6. You will hear part of a radio discussion in which two actors, William and Sonia, talk about their profession. You will hear the recording twice. For questions 1-6, decide whether the opinion expressed by only one of the speakers, or whether the speakers agree.

Write

W for William,

S for Sonia,

B for both, where they agree.

1. Learning the lines before rehearsals start is not the priority.

2. Preparing for a role tends to be demanding.

3. Good acting depends on interaction with the other actors.

4. I generally play a character in the same way in every performance of a play.

5. Actors have more control in plays than in films.

6. Detail is more significant in films than in plays.

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