Acting
Casting Networks’ notices over the last year
10 April 2011
A visual addendum to my open letter: a gallery of 4 emails I’ve received via my commercial agency. I’ve removed my info, their info and the casting folks’ info, but you can still see the basic trend.
Upper left. A year ago, callback and shoot dates were included.
Upper right. They briefly switched to a notification system where the subject line gave you all the info you were going to get except by going to their site. On their site currently, “alerts” are prominently featured in red and they are archived … and they have no callback dates or shoot dates listed.
Lower right and lower left. There are 2 iterations of the current version where you get no future dates, just audition dates.
The oldest email (upper left) looks a little clunky and doesn’t have the Casting Networks logo, but it’s clearly got the most complete information. Bring back the information!