Self-tapes include a stills-style hold and a short movement. We do not cast from a single smiling headshot.
Wardrobe tests on camera, in the key we intend to use. Fabric that photographs well in a phone snap can fail under HMI.
Agencies get selects with notes on motion, not only beauty. The person who ‘looks like the deck’ still has to walk.
Background talent is scheduled, not hoped for. A documentary-looking office still needs people who can ignore the camera.
Releases are signed before wrap, including stills usage. A film release that forgets print is a lawyer’s letter in month four.
Stmercure House is on Buchanan Street, a room behind the shopfront with a cove and a small stage for interviews. The work is music venues, makers and the universities that need a plain record of a building. Evenings are the busy half. We plot the changeover, shoot the empty room, then the set, then leave before the encore if the brief says so.