Studio Production: Contestant Auditions

As part of the pre-production for studio production, we recently held auditions for our contestants.

CONTESTANT AUDITIONS

To begin this process I asked Sam (the A.P) to start looking for possible contestants. He acted on this request by posting ads on casting websites and by putting up adverts at his workplace. After a few weeks he had received a few applications and had been in constant contact with the applicants. The next stage was to arrange an audition day.

We worked with Imogen (the P.M) to set a suitable date to audition contestants. As Becca would also need to attend these auditions, we ensured it was a date that was suitable for her too.

Prior to the auditions I asked Sam to send each applicant an application form to fill out, which can be viewed here: TBMQ APPLICATION FORM

By the time the audition day arrived, unfortunately some of our applicants had dropped out, including all the female applicants. This meant on the day we could only audition three males. Sam emailed our applicants to arrange a time to skype.

For each contestant we followed the same process:

- Introductions (included an introduction to the show)
- Find out more about them
- Ask trivia questions to find out some fun facts about them which we can use in the show
- Test their film knowledge to see if they actually know anything about film
- Allow them to ask us any questions

We interviewed each of our applicants and by the end of the day we had two contestants: Danny Eycott & Jamie Terry. Our third applicant was not suitable and did not have any film knowledge.

We discussed how it would be nice to have a female contestant however it was clear we didn't have any female applicants to audition. I'm sure this is something that will be brought up and probably sorted before the show is recorded.