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Casting and Cast Management

Keep track of the whole casting process

Updated over a year ago

How to Suggest Cast Members to Your Characters

This video tutorial shows you how to assign an actor or actress to a role by making casting suggestions. View DOODs, assign tasks, and leave comments. Choose a talent from the database of actors, or create new entries for individuals that are not listed in the database. Learn to make multiple suggestions, reject suggestions, rate talents and show the casting department why the individual is suited for the role or recast the role altogether.

  • 0:35 Group of characters

  • 1:00 Avoid/make role suggestions

  • 1:40 Rate suggestions

  • 2:01 Fix actor to cast

  • 2:33 Recast role

How to Create and Manage the Cast in Yamdu

In this video you learn how to enter new actors or actresses into the talents database and how to manage the cast in Yamdu. Create an actor and fill in all the necessary information, and additional material like shows reels, headshots, as well as, details like their appearance and measurements for the costume and makeup department. Make further edits to the actor’s profile and limit sensitive information to the users with the right to do so. Upload contracts and manage the cast under the files and documents section.

  • 0:10 Create a cast member

  • 2:05 Edit actors' profiles

  • 2:39 Edit user access rights

  • 2:55 Add/remove additional material

  • 3:18 Contracts

  • 3:53 Files and documents for the cast

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