{"id":8188,"date":"2017-10-02T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=8188"},"modified":"2017-10-02T07:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T06:00:32","slug":"scandi-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/scandi-noir\/","title":{"rendered":"#MondayMusings – Scandi Noir & Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONDAY MUSINGS<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>I don’t talk much about casting but it is a part of what I do. \u00a0One of my top casting tips is to watch auditions with the sound off. \u00a0Ask yourself what is the actor giving off- regardless of the words he or she is saying. \u00a0Casting is one of the times when I think the words get in the way. In one of my consulting jobs, I was called in to help figure out why an actor was floundering in his role.<\/p>\n

He was a young pop star in the country involved. \u00a0He was cast in an extended recurring role. \u00a0He was meant to be a “bad boy”, rebel, slightly dangerous\u00a0love interest for a popular\u00a0young actress on the show. \u00a0They dressed him in ripped jeans, scuffed motorcycle boots, and a cool leather jacket– meant to emulate a young James Dean. \u00a0But he wasn’t connecting with the actress or the audience.<\/p>\n

I asked the producers to cut together three scenes in which the actor was prominently featured. They could be from anywhere in story. \u00a0We watched the scenes with the sound off. \u00a0I asked the writers and produces what this actor was giving off. \u00a0They chose words like: eager, open, sweet, puppy-dog like. \u00a0There wasn’t a dangerous bone in his body. \u00a0We changed his Character Type and he became a great success.<\/p>\n

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Casting is one of the things that makes Scandi Noir so compulsively watchable. \u00a0The actors look like real people engaged in a professional, criminal, or ordinary pursuits. They have faces you might see on the street in an ordinary Scandanavia town. They don’t have “Hollywood teeth”.<\/p>\n

When I was in South Africa I learned Black Sails<\/em> was shot at Cape Town Studios. That series passed me when it aired, \u00a0I decided to catch up. \u00a0The pirates were very authentically dressed for the ragtag dangerous life they lived. \u00a0They had missing fingers and toes, lost legs, gouged out eyes, and cruel scars– but they all had perfectly even white teeth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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