Project Details
Project Title
Too Much of a Good Thing
Casting Agent/Contact
Alison Marks
Project Type
Short Film
Union Status
Non-Union
Shoot Dates
TBD
Shoot Location
Remote
Description/Notes
‘Too Much of a Good Thing’ (A rotoscoped/animated production)
Thank you for your interest in ‘Too Much of a Good Thing’ this project is an animated short film with the goal of being a participant in the 2022 CineWorld Film Festival. My name is David Meiers, and I am the Community Outreach and Marketing Director for SRQ Film Society. I am also an animator, filmmaker, and artist. ‘Too Much of a Good Thing’ was a winner of a local youth script writing contest, and I am assembling a team of artists to bring this short film to life.
Currently are close to fully casting the main roles of this film and have a few more left to go. The project will be coordinated fully as remote/distance work as this is for animation reference. This is set up to be solely animation reference, so the roles will be more in the lines of choreography. We will provide the scenes and direction, and then ask you to act out the scenes with multiple takes. We will be paying close attention to wardrobe choice, style, secondary action, expression, movement, body language, hip placement, and your unique take on the particular scene. We need your own perspective so that the characters have different lives of their own.
The story is a quirky comedy about a boy just out of college that meets a mysterious gentleman. They talk briefly about psychology, and things take a dark turn. He gives him a phone app designed to send a text message that will magically make the person receiving them, do whatever the message says. The only catch is that only one text can be sent, and once the spell is cast, it cannot be reversed. Skeptical, he takes the app and tries to reverse engineer it to see if there is any validity to it. He inadvertently destroys a few relationships by making different characters fall head over heels in love, not knowing it cannot be reversed. Things take a turn for the worse as these spells are strong, making to person consumed by it.
For example, he tests it on his friend making her fall in love with her roommate, or the antagonist using it on his lab partner to fall in love with the first person she sees, thus making her run off with him, and abandoning her work.
The antagonist takes control of the app and offers to reverse the spells, if, and only if Michael, sells his soul to his company and work for him for all eternity. It becomes a race against the clock as Michael’s friends and co-workers try to find a way to reverse the app’s effects before it is too late.
This project is solely remote paid work, we have a budget, and all scenes are meant for reference purposes only, meaning the cartoon will resemble you but it will be a cartoon, and all acting will be exaggerated for cartoon purposes. This gives you more control over the scene and content. We do require a self-tape audition to see how you handle the scene, wardrobe, filming environment, and expressions. We are focusing on the spells for the audition process, each character is changed in some way, either by the antagonist, or by mistake, and these revolve around a love spell, or changing personalities.
Thank you again for your interest in our project!
Project posted on 3/8/21
Available Roles
  • Ashley - Female / Featured / Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander / 18-58

    Ashley is Ellie's co-worker, college aged, athletic build and at the beginning of the film she stumbles on a way to reverse engineer the code. To avoid discovery, the antagonist sends her a text message that places her under a love spell with the first guy she sees. For the self-tape we will narrow down the scene where she runs off to see how you handle the acting portion. *Please note, the camera angle should be a mid-full shot so that we can best match your acting skills to your body language for animation*
    *A self-tape audition is requires so we can determine how you handle the scene*
    Type
    Featured
    Union
    Non-Union
    Paying?
    Yes - $200-$300
    Spot/Episode
    Role Gender
    Female
    Age Range
    18-58
    Ethnic Appearance
    Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander
    Role Description
    Ashley is Ellie's co-worker, college aged, athletic build and at the beginning of the film she stumbles on a way to reverse engineer the code. To avoid discovery, the antagonist sends her a text message that places her under a love spell with the first guy she sees. For the self-tape we will narrow down the scene where she runs off to see how you handle the acting portion. *Please note, the camera angle should be a mid-full shot so that we can best match your acting skills to your body language for animation*
    *A self-tape audition is requires so we can determine how you handle the scene*
    Nudity?
    No
    Sexual Situations?
    No: No
    Wardrobe
    Athletic - fitted sports bra and shorts
    Accepts Video Submissions?
  • Ellie - Female / Featured / Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander / 18-28

    Background: Chase and Ellie are reverse engineering the app in order to prevent Michael from going through with selling his soul to the
    company in order to break the spell the app has on everyone. Ellie is Michael's love interest and is looking at her phone, holding it up to the light. The antagonist places a spell on Ellie to stop her from completing her work, changing her into a bubbly, valley girl who only has eyes for her co-worker. She flip-flops between both personalities throughout.
    Type
    Featured
    Union
    Non-Union
    Paying?
    Yes - $300-$400
    Spot/Episode
    Role Gender
    Female
    Age Range
    18-28
    Ethnic Appearance
    Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander
    Role Description
    Background: Chase and Ellie are reverse engineering the app in order to prevent Michael from going through with selling his soul to the
    company in order to break the spell the app has on everyone. Ellie is Michael's love interest and is looking at her phone, holding it up to the light. The antagonist places a spell on Ellie to stop her from completing her work, changing her into a bubbly, valley girl who only has eyes for her co-worker. She flip-flops between both personalities throughout.
    Nudity?
    No
    Sexual Situations?
    No: No
    Wardrobe
    Ellie is wearing a sporty outfit a lower cut sports bra and shorts, indicating just getting back from the gym and about to pull an all-nighter.
    Accepts Video Submissions?
  • Jennifer - Female / Supporting / Caucasian / 18-25

    Towards the end of the film it's Valentine's Day, the lead is trying to get to his destination to stop the text virus from going out of control. The main antagonist mass texts everyone in a radius of him, placing everyone under a love spell while making the male roles insanely jealous to delay him from reaching his destination.

    Jennifer is waiting for her boyfriend to arrive for their Valentine's Day picnic. She's getting some sun and is wearing a swim top, or smaller party outfit (revealing with skirt) or smaller tube top with denim shorts, with shades.


    (Important to display age and character, the costume is a typical teen/college aged attire, showing a lot of stomach, neck line, etc...modern outfit for the character)

    She receives a text and looks at her phone, it has a text instructing her to fall in love with the main character which puts her under a love spell.
    Type
    Supporting
    Union
    Non-Union
    Paying?
    Yes - $200-$300
    Spot/Episode
    Role Gender
    Female
    Age Range
    18-25
    Ethnic Appearance
    Caucasian
    Role Description
    Towards the end of the film it's Valentine's Day, the lead is trying to get to his destination to stop the text virus from going out of control. The main antagonist mass texts everyone in a radius of him, placing everyone under a love spell while making the male roles insanely jealous to delay him from reaching his destination.

    Jennifer is waiting for her boyfriend to arrive for their Valentine's Day picnic. She's getting some sun and is wearing a swim top, or smaller party outfit (revealing with skirt) or smaller tube top with denim shorts, with shades.


    (Important to display age and character, the costume is a typical teen/college aged attire, showing a lot of stomach, neck line, etc...modern outfit for the character)

    She receives a text and looks at her phone, it has a text instructing her to fall in love with the main character which puts her under a love spell.
    Nudity?
    No
    Sexual Situations?
    No: No
    Wardrobe
    costume is a typical teen/college aged attire, at the park, showing a bit of stomach, neck line, etc...modern outfit for the character like a tied tank top and shorts.
    Accepts Video Submissions?
  • Julia - Female / Featured / Caucasian / 18-28

    Background: Julia is a dance and yoga instructor who has been giving private lessons to one of her clients Allen, one of the engineers on the project, who wanted to surprise his fiancé at their wedding as he couldn't dance to save his life. Not knowing the real circumstances, Amelia thinks her fiancé is cheating on her and wants to put a stop to it by getting even with Julia. Amelia copied the app from Allen's phone to use on Julia. She makes Julia hate Allen using the app, and places a powerful love spell on her, to fall innocently in love with the first person she sees, one of her students.
    Type
    Featured
    Union
    Non-Union
    Paying?
    Yes - $200-$300
    Spot/Episode
    Role Gender
    Female
    Age Range
    18-28
    Ethnic Appearance
    Caucasian
    Role Description
    Background: Julia is a dance and yoga instructor who has been giving private lessons to one of her clients Allen, one of the engineers on the project, who wanted to surprise his fiancé at their wedding as he couldn't dance to save his life. Not knowing the real circumstances, Amelia thinks her fiancé is cheating on her and wants to put a stop to it by getting even with Julia. Amelia copied the app from Allen's phone to use on Julia. She makes Julia hate Allen using the app, and places a powerful love spell on her, to fall innocently in love with the first person she sees, one of her students.
    Nudity?
    No
    Sexual Situations?
    No: No
    Wardrobe
    Sports bra and shorts
    Accepts Video Submissions?
  • Love-Struck Cheerleader - Female / Background / Caucasian / 18-25

    *We require a self-tape audition so we can see how you handle falling under the love spell, and see your shooting environment as this is a reference for animation, and remote work*

    Towards the end of the film it's Valentine's Day, the lead is trying to get to his destination to stop the text virus from going out of control. The main antagonist mass texts everyone in a radius of him, placing everyone under a love spell while making the male roles insanely jealous to delay him from reaching his destination.

    This is a bit role, you'd play a very stereotypical ditzy type, very valley girl, saying "like" quite often, very bubbly, bouncy and energetic. Think right out of High School. She's dressed to fit the role, your choice, something that screams the role of ditzy, valley girl. Our costume designer would like to see something two piece, showing a bit of mid-drift, fitted, with a shorter skirt, or go the athletic route.

    In this scene she is on her cell phone talking to her boyfriend, giggling, twirling her hair, acting pretty bubbly, and is excited about their date tonight. She receives a text and takes a look, suddenly she feels something push her forehead, and she looks around confused. She looks back at the phone and falls instantly in love with the photograph texted to her. She looks up and sees the main character.

    She tries to continue her conversation with her boyfriend, but she just trails off, and it becomes obvious that she's under the very powerful love spell.

    She reaches out to Michael, and slowly approaches him with this goofy, love-struck expression.

    For the rest of the take we'd like you to ad-lib this character being head over heels in love, think magical, enchanted, really overact and use expressive acting. In the script she's fake model posing, professing love, and acting extremely ditzy and over the top flirty. Draw this out until he runs away, and you chase after him.
    Type
    Background
    Union
    Non-Union
    Paying?
    Yes - $100 - $200
    Spot/Episode
    Role Gender
    Female
    Age Range
    18-25
    Ethnic Appearance
    Caucasian
    Role Description
    *We require a self-tape audition so we can see how you handle falling under the love spell, and see your shooting environment as this is a reference for animation, and remote work*

    Towards the end of the film it's Valentine's Day, the lead is trying to get to his destination to stop the text virus from going out of control. The main antagonist mass texts everyone in a radius of him, placing everyone under a love spell while making the male roles insanely jealous to delay him from reaching his destination.

    This is a bit role, you'd play a very stereotypical ditzy type, very valley girl, saying "like" quite often, very bubbly, bouncy and energetic. Think right out of High School. She's dressed to fit the role, your choice, something that screams the role of ditzy, valley girl. Our costume designer would like to see something two piece, showing a bit of mid-drift, fitted, with a shorter skirt, or go the athletic route.

    In this scene she is on her cell phone talking to her boyfriend, giggling, twirling her hair, acting pretty bubbly, and is excited about their date tonight. She receives a text and takes a look, suddenly she feels something push her forehead, and she looks around confused. She looks back at the phone and falls instantly in love with the photograph texted to her. She looks up and sees the main character.

    She tries to continue her conversation with her boyfriend, but she just trails off, and it becomes obvious that she's under the very powerful love spell.

    She reaches out to Michael, and slowly approaches him with this goofy, love-struck expression.

    For the rest of the take we'd like you to ad-lib this character being head over heels in love, think magical, enchanted, really overact and use expressive acting. In the script she's fake model posing, professing love, and acting extremely ditzy and over the top flirty. Draw this out until he runs away, and you chase after him.
    Nudity?
    No
    Sexual Situations?
    No: No
    Wardrobe
    sporty attire
    Accepts Video Submissions?
How do I audition?
This project accepts online auditions through Casting Elite. To submit for this casting call, click the "Submit Audition" button next to the role that you're interested in and login or create a new CastingElite.com account.

 

 

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