Casting-call...

NEW UPDATED KIA DANCERS CASTING NEW HEIGHT RECASTING

CASTING BREAKDOWN

Casting Director: Mark Summers

Date of Casting: Thursday 17th May 12 London/ 21st May 12 – call-backs London

Production: KIA SOUL Dancing Hamsters

Director Carl Erik Rinsch

Choreographer Natricia Bernard (Florence, 50 cent, Beth Ditto, Justin Timberlake)

Shoot Prague / Coach class travel, Hotel + per diem on top of fees

Dates

9th June – rehearsals London
15th June – KEEP ON HOLD FOR POSSIBLE TRAVEL
16th June – Travel & Fitting
17th June – Down day or further Fitting
18th June – Rehearse
19th June – Rehearse
20th June – 22nd June – SHOOT or Down Day (no shoot schedule yet)
23rd June – KEEP ON HOLD FOR POSSIBLE EXTRA SHOOT DAY
24th June – KEEP ON HOLD FOR TRAVEL

ALL DAYS ARE BASED ON 12 HOURS

ALL FEES ARE + 20% AGENCY ON TOP

Shoot Fee $900 per 12 hour day for Shoot and Rehearsal days. $450 per 12-hour day for travel /down days.

Invoices should be submitted in US dollars. Agency will pay the invoice in dollars and talent will receive British Pounds at the applicable conversion rate at that time, as determined by the receiving banks. Agency will pay talent fees directly through their agents in London. Agency will pay 20% agent fees on top of talent compensation.

Fees above are grand total, inclusive of all taxes and any other fees ( with the exception of Agent fees.)

No additional usage costs will apply since we will not see their faces in the final completed commercials.

Use:

Worldwide, All Media, In Perpetuity. Includes all versions, edits, and lifts.

We may also shoot some B-roll / Behind the Scenes. Talent agrees to grant rights to his/her appearance in B-roll / Behind the Scenes videos of any length (which could include seeing their faces, as during the production they would not be replaced by a hamster head as in the final spot), including stills photography or lifts from videos, and that no additional compensation will be due beyond the compensation outlined above.

We are recasting a Dance spot for KIA that feature Dancing Hamsters

We now can see dancers

These spots are very poplar in the US & all over the Internet.

If you have not seen theses spot click on the following link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zJWA3Vo6TU

This is going to be an amazing spot with lot of live action mixed with CGI shot in a beautiful location in Prague

The dancers will be dancing wearing Hamster body suits so there faces will not be shown so no buy-out is due. But we have a lot of dates so it will be a good earn.

Brief: UPDATED CASTING BREAKDOWN AS OF WEDS 16^TH May 2011

5 HAMSTERS MALE / FEMALE DANCERS ANY RACE 17+

IN ORDER TO FIT THE OUTFITS MUST BE A MAX HEIGHT 5’7 / 170 cm TALL

For the hamsters, we are looking for world-class dancers – the best of the best.

They should be versatile enough to be able to convincingly perform different styles.

They start off doing a contemporary dance then After that they will go into street styles like: Hip-hop, popping and locking, break dance, dub step, classic rave/dance, parkour, Jookin, Robotics, Wave/Mime, power moves (head spins, flips, hand springs, kick-ups, etc) female Whacking, Tutting

We are also after hardcore breakers

ON ALL SUGGESTIONS HEIGHTS MUST BE ENCLOSED. ALSO LET US KNOW IF THE SUGGESTIONS ARE DANCER OR A BREAKERS

NO SUGGESTIONS FORM ANYONE OVER 5’7 TALL

We don’t care what they look like or what they have done in the past as long as they are amazing dancers.

We also want dancers that are great performers to bring theses characters to life.

ALL OF THE DANCERS MUST HAVE PASSPORTS OR ABLE TO GET ONE IN TIME FOR THE SHOOT

IT WOULD GREAT TO HEAR FROM SINGLE DANCERS & CREWS

Please send suggestions

CLOSING DATE TODAY WEDS 16TH MAY 2012 4PM mark@marksummers.com

Don’t forget to put a contact number down on your emails.

Subject line KIA /DANCERS

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PASS THIS BREAKDOWN AROUND