casting director
Code 2654.1.2
Casting directors select actors for all roles in a motion picture or television series. They co-operate with the producer and director to determine what they are looking for. Casting directors contact talent agents and organise interviews and auditions for the parts. They determine the fees and contracts for the actors and extras.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- familiarise with personal directing styles
Skills and competences
- match actors to roles
- carry out auditions
- consult with production director
- develop professional network
- discover acting talent
- contact talent agents
- study relationships between characters
- read scripts
- organise auditions
- follow directions of the artistic director
Transversal competences
- consult with motion picture producer
- negotiate with artists
- carry out interviews to select artistic team members
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences