Self-tapes include a stills-style hold and a short movement. We do not cast from a single smiling headshot.
Wardrobe tests on camera, in the key we intend to use. Fabric that photographs well in a phone snap can fail under HMI.
Agencies get selects with notes on motion, not only beauty. The person who ‘looks like the deck’ still has to walk.
Background talent is scheduled, not hoped for. A documentary-looking office still needs people who can ignore the camera.
Releases are signed before wrap, including stills usage. A film release that forgets print is a lawyer’s letter in month four.
Seacount Film sits on Rue de la Corraterie, a quiet room off the lake. Clients are watch ateliers, the institutions that borrow objects, and the hotels that need a plain record of a hall. Days are short and plotted. Macro on the bench in the morning, a portrait by the lake window after lunch, grade before the courier.