Projects represents the different productions you are wanting conduct auditions for your casting.
The main projects tab will display all projects created within your casting site.
Projects can be listed in both thumbnail and table view by selecting the format view icon in the rightmost corner of the project listing.
Projects can have various project statuses.
Upcoming: Means the project has not had any audition rounds accept new applications or assessments as yet
Started: Means the project has started accepting submissions or assessments have commenced on one or more of the audition rounds in the project.
Closed: Means the auditions and selection of cast list has completed for the production.
Projects can also have a visibility status.
Listed: Means the project can be seen and searched by all talent within the talent database
Unlisted: Means the project can only be seen by talent that have been invited to one of the projects audition rounds.
Anatomy of a project
A project is made up of multiple configurable components.
Project core details
The details of a project represent the core information about your project. It includes information such as name of the project, description, production company, location, contract dates, production type and more. Most of these details are for informational purposes for talent and casting team members.
Round
Rounds represent the various auditions that a talent must go through in order to be selected for a role. An audition round is what a talent applies for when want to be considered for roles of the project. Rounds can be started sequently or simultaneously. For example you may want to run multiple rounds sequently to shortlist talent. Alternatively you may also want to accept applications or conduct assessment for multiple rounds concurrently. Rounds can represent auditions dedicated to different roles or audition locations as an example. How you manage your rounds and which talent they represent is completely up to the casting leads.
Roles
Roles represent the different production roles you are looking to fill for your project. Roles are selected by your talent when they apply for an audition. Roles contain multiple attributes including descriptions, talent requirements, skills needed, informational material related to the role (e.g. scripts) and projects team members who can assess talent who apply for these roles.
Materials
The materials allows casting to provide informational material for the project. This could include informational videos, pdf scripts, background music files, etc.
Questions
Questions are used to ask for information from talent when they are applying for a role within an audition round. A questions allows for different types of inputs including text input, multi-choice checkbox answers, single choice radio buttons, drop down selection answers and file uploads. The file upload questions allows for casting to specify the type being either pdf, videos, sound file or photos. Questions can also be selectively applied to specific roles or audition rounds. This means the question will only be asked if the talent applies for the assigned role and round.
Talent
The talent displayed at the project level represents all talent that have applied to the various audition rounds for the project.
Working Cast list
The working cast list is only accessible by casting leads. It represents the selected talent for each role within the project. The casting lead can assign talent to roles and then send these to the client for approval.
Team
The project team represents all the casting team members who are involved with the project. Except for admin and site owner users, casting users must belong to the project cast team in order to access a project. The project team members are selected from the account team which are added via the main settings area.