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Jon Boyes
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Joined: Jul. 10 2003
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 RE: Missed it! (in reply to Jim Opfer)
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ORIGINAL: Jim Opfer
I got this e-mail from a guy in London asking if I wanted to play flamenco guitar in an advert. I said yes, but I was in Glasgow.
So did I - I had an email from the casting agency itself. I had a chat with their casting director, and she sent me the full brief.
A few concerns - the player will be filmed walking along a beach, and they will superimpose Alan Wicker's (not Whittaker) head on top. So that's the first problem -WALKING along whilst playing.
Secondly, the agency has hired a musical director/composer. Now at this stage it is unclear what exactly the musician will be required to play in the advert, but it sounded to me like this composer would be composing something for the musician to play. The brief just says someone who can play all styles of Spanish guitar (ie including classical).
The music for the advert will be something breathtaking - very virtuosic, very fast and the agency wre very keen to stress that they are looking for an absolute virtuoso.
Oh, you also have to have the same dimensions as Alan Wicker, give or take the odd inch  .
I doubt very much that the team making the advert have anyone on board that appreciates the problems here: that flamenco and classical guitar are both played seated, that the majority of flamencos can't read music and wouldn't be able to play from a score, and that they don't play composed music anyway, etc, etc.
The fee if you were selected, by the way, is £3k, plus of course a few days in Thailand filming. and a session in a London studio at standard rates (which would come to another £200 odd.) The agency of course buys out your rights and you would not be identified in any way.
Last I heard they had about 15 people lined up, the audition is only 15 mins.
Jon
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Date Oct. 15 2004 9:36:28
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Jamey
Posts: 187
Joined: Jul. 7 2004
From: Winnipeg, Canada
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RE: Missed it! (in reply to Jim Opfer)
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8 hours isn't so bad. You could be a lot more isolated.
If I drive 8 hours east, I hit a town called Thunder Bay in the Canadian Shield (small place built around the lumber, pulp and paper industry so places leading up to it and after it have a rotten egg sulphur smell).
If I drive 8 hours west, I hit Regina, which is essentially the exact same place as where I am albeit a little more agriculture based and not as ethnically diverse (and just as flat).
If I drive 8 hours north (not something anyone here should do), I hit Thompson, a city that grew from a mining town and 8 hours north from here means polar bears and - 55 or -65 C winters (bears as big as SUVs are bad enough).
If I drive 8 hours south, I end up just outside of Minneapolis-St. Paul (the twin cities). A great city to hang out in but that's 8 hours one way, not round trip. By then I'll have been pulled over three times by state troupers for speeding. I saw Prince (sorry Prince, there's no key on my keyboard for whatever the hell you're calling yourself these days) there in a swanky club once. He was in a semi private part of the club with a giant yeti pretending to be a body guard.
If I shorten it to 8 hours round trip:
4 hours east = rocks and pine trees
4 hours west = wheat fields to the horizon
4 hours north = bush, bugs and our own brand of "hill billies" living in the "interlake" region.
4 hours south = Fargo North Dakota (see above for "4 hours west")
If London was 4 hours away, I'd go in a heart beat.
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Date Oct. 19 2004 15:15:40
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Jim Opfer
Posts: 1876
Joined: Jul. 19 2003
From: Glasgow, Scotland.
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RE: Missed it! (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
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I keep forgetting that all you British people are scattered over a somewhat sizeable country!
The thing is Glasgow to London should only be about 5hrs drive at 80mph. The journey from Scotland down to top top part of England's a doddle, good roads most of the way and relatively free of traffic.
When I hit Liverpool, it all changes, all of a sudden the roads are jammed, but still not too bad. When I get to Birmingham it's traffic jams and crawling along for about 50 miles or so, but still not tooooo! bad.
London however, is a total different thing. traffic just stops and it's nose to tail for hours.
I guess this last section adds about 3hrs on to the journey. 8 hours at least.
Anyway, anyway, I was invited the day before the interview and was up for it without knowing any detail, I said I'd go. But reply was not to bother, they said it was impractical.
Only found out in this thread from Jon that they were hunting down lots of other players.
So not to worry, who is this guy Whittiker anyway?
Jim.
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Date Oct. 19 2004 19:19:44
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Jamey
Posts: 187
Joined: Jul. 7 2004
From: Winnipeg, Canada
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RE: Missed it! (in reply to Jim Opfer)
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Canada is bigger than the U.S. of A.
Texas doesn't like to hear that Alberta is a much bigger Texas with Montana thrown in for the hell of it. With all this extreme vastness, you can't really live in most of it. Most of Canada is truely wilderness and unless you're a moose, bear, caribou, wolf, sasquatch, deer or some type of water fowl, most of it is off limits (i.e. you couldn't really get there unless you had a plane, boat, sherpa, and hunting rifle). Some places up north have to wait until winter so that the lakes freeze up and they can build temporary roads on all of the frozen lakes (Minnesota claims 10,000 lakes, Manitoba has some ridiculous number like 100,000 lakes). It's actually a little unnerving to see a semi (lory to you Brits) drive on a frozen lake.
I live right in the center on Canada. This unfortunately means that I'm really far from everywhere. I remember back when I was going to school in Montreal, a flight to Paris was cheaper than one back to Winnipeg (damn, should have grabbed the one to Paris).
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Date Oct. 20 2004 7:41:40
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