Cinecast is an application that will bring a solution to cinema school students in Lebanon in order to help them create meaningful connections to recruit talents for their film projects.

How are film/cinema school students searching & applying to casting calls ?How efficient are the followed methods ?

“The idea of searching for compatible actors for your film story is not easy, especially when you are in hurry and have a tight deadline. You will need to contact a lot of people or share your post on social media ,this method presents a lot of disadvantages”

Whether you're an actor, sound mixer/recordist/,cinematographer/videographer, writer, editor, art director/makeup artist/costume designer or work in production, you will be able to list your contact information and preferred field of work so that people could get in touch with you.

In addition Cinecast will support showing your work , managing deadlines ,searching for shooting locations , contacting the team members and borrowing tools from the users of the app based on shooting dates.

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I gathered some important information and findings related to casting calls.

1-University students have to film school projects 1 to 3 times per year depending on their curriculum. Some students find the casting process a stressful and difficult task especially when they have a tight deadline students postponed their shooting in order to find the right cast after several trials of searching for the right person

2-Answering the question what are the disadvantages of using Facebook groups for casting calls .The major problems are :

 "Applications are not controllable and filtered” "used by a certain age group more than the other" and "anyone can apply to the call"

More evidence quotes:

“People don’t take it seriously and don’t answer or answer too late”

“Everyone shows up even people that are not serious, Random people with not seeing previous work properly”

“I can’t get all ages”

The sequence of steps the user takes to complete each task.