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Hello fellow artists and friends!
All of us here at C&J are sending out well wishes as we rise up to meet the challenge of these new circumstances we are in due to the coronavirus. We know if we can support each other during this time we can ensure a healthy outcome for all. Because it is advisable to have as little social contact as possible we wanted to explore new and affordable ways to offer you opportunities to continue to work on your craft while you’re hunkered down at home with your loved ones.

For the next few months we will be offering “Virtual General Meetings” with the CDs in order to meet new faces and keep in touch with those we already know well. Please refer to the schedule below for available appointment times.

We are also scheduling webinars & private coaching sessions through the C&J Virtual Studio. Click here to see what we are currently offering.

C&J Casting offers standard taping sessions for the following:

• Actors requested to self-tape for projects outside of C&J

• Scenes intended for demo reels

• Coaching Sessions

Pricing is $25 per 15 minute interval. Each package includes the filming and lighting composition of your audition, as well as provides you with a reading partner for your scene(s). This also includes editing and delivery. We accept cash, check or credit/debit card.

The most important aspect of having C&J tape your audition is that you get the experienced eye of a C&J Casting Director or Casting Associate – someone who is dedicated and trained to ensure you are giving your strongest audition possible. We offer basic guidance and notes in all our “Self Taping” sessions.

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1. The most important aspect of having C&J tape your audition is that you get the experienced eye of a C&J Casting Director or Casting Associate – someone who is dedicated and trained to ensure you are giving your strongest audition possible. We offer basic guidance and notes in all our “Self Taping” sessions.
2. C & J Casting CLAIM THIS BUSINESS. 3006 N DAVIDSON ST - CHARLOTTE, NC 28205 Get Directions (704) 374-9400.
3. Raw castings often contain irregularities caused by seams and imperfections in the molds, as well as access ports for pouring material into the molds. The process of cutting, grinding, shaving or sanding away these unwanted bits is called 'fettling'.

We ask that you come as prepared as possible, with scripts, and any special instructions from your agent or casting director as to slates, filming, labeling and/or file size/format/delivery.

We're available 9a-4:30p most weekdays and weekends by appointment, provided that we are not casting. We will however try our best to work within your schedule. And of course, the more notice we receive, the easier we will be able to accommodate you.

To schedule a Taping Session:

Email cjcasting@gmail.com and put “SELF TAPING” in subject line. Be sure to include a few appointment time options when requesting a taping as well as the approximate length of time your taping requires. (i,e. If you have 3 scenes you may want to request a min of 30 mins to 1 hr)

C&J offers workshops throughout the year for both beginner and seasoned actors of all ages. Please click the button below to see workshops we currently have scheduled. We will continue to open our workshop tab as new workshops become available.

If you have a suggestion of a workshop topic and/or would like to be put on our mailing list for future workshops, please email us at cjworkshop@gmail.com.

• HOW DO I FIND AN AGENT?

  • There are a lot of great agencies in the SouthEast. C&J does not make personal recommendations. We suggest you do a Google search for Agents in your area and check out their websites or social media pages to find out their submission policy. We also suggest you talk to your fellow actors to get recommendations from them.

  • On your search remember your agent is your partner, and you should try to interview with several people to see which agency is the correct fit for you.

• DO I REALLY NEED AN AGENT?

  • We highly recommend you have an agent, it is extremely difficult and unlikely for a casting director to reach out to individuals without representation.

• CAN I BE REPRESENTED BY MORE THAN ONE AGENT?

  • It is up to each individual agent whether or not they would allow you to have multiple representation. It has become increasingly rare that you can multiple agents in the same market.

• WHAT SHOULD MY HEADSHOT LOOK LIKE?

  • For Commercials your headshot should be friendly, smiles are a nice way to say “I can sell your product”.

  • For Film your headshot should be more dramatic/serious, more like the characters you would be asked to play.

  • Your primary photo should be a close up, but it is also great to have additional photos on your actors info page that a 3/4 to full body.

  • Everything is about the eyes in a headshot

  • Whether it is landscape or portrait is all personal preference of the Casting Director

  • Ultimately, your agent will have the most say on how they would like your headshot to look, so if you have an agent make sure to consult them first.

• HOW SHOULD I PREPARE MY HEADSHOT FOR A CALLBACK?

  • Your headshot should be current and we should be able to tell it is you from the picture. We prefer your name be on the front of your headshot and your resume attached to the back. If you do not currently look like your headshot (hair color or style change) please attach a current photo to your headshot.

• DO I NEED TO BRING HEADSHOTS TO AUDITIONS?

  • You should always have headshots available, most of the time we do not need headshots for the initial round of commercial casting. However for callbacks, clients will always want a headshot and resume.

  • For Film we always want a headshot, whether it is the initial round or a callback.

Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify. The solidified part is also known as a casting, which is ejected or broken out of the mold to complete the process. Casting materials are usually metals or various time setting materials that cure after mixing two or more components together; examples are epoxy, concrete, plaster and clay. Casting is most often used for making complex shapes that would be otherwise difficult or uneconomical to make by other methods. Heavy equipment like machine tool beds, ships' propellers, etc. can be cast easily in the required size, rather than fabricating by joining several small pieces.^[1]

Casting is a 7,000-year-old process. The oldest surviving casting is a copper frog from 3200 BC.^[2]

History[edit]

Throughout history, metal casting has been used to make tools, weapons, and religious objects. Metal casting history and development can be traced back to Southern Asia (China, India, Pakistan, etc). ^[3] Southern Asia traditions and religions relied heavily on statue and relic castings.^[4] These items were frequently made from a copper alloy laced with lead.^[5] Since the beginning of metallurgy the majority of castings were simple one to two piece molds fashioned from either stone or ceramics. However, there is evidence of lost wax castings in numerous ancient civilizations.^[4]

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Early civilizations discovered lead aided in the fluidity of molten copper, allowing them to cast more intricate designs. For example, the dancing girl of Mohenjo-daro is a copper alloy casting that most likely utilizes the lost wax technique.^[4] Lost wax casting can be dated back to 4000 BC or the Chalcolithic period.^[4] One of the oldest studied examples of this technique is a 6,000-year old amulet from Indus valley civilization.^[6]

India is attributed as one of the first civilizations to use casting methods to mass produce coins. Around the middle of the first millennium BC (1000 BC - 1 BC), coins used were made from silver but as the millennium progressed the coins shifted to a cast copper alloy.^[4] New technology was developed to mass produce the new copper coins. Introduced was a multi piece stackable coin template mold. Multiple molds were placed on top of one another into a clay cylinder so molten metal could be poured down the center, filling and solidifying in the open spaces.^[4] This process allowed one hundred coins to be produced simultaneously.^[4]

In the Middle East and West Africa the lost wax technique was used very early in their metallurgy traditions while China adopted it much later. In Western Europe lost wax techniques are considered to have been hardly used especially in comparison to that of the Indus valley civilization.^[4] There were no pieces of lost wax found in the capital of Anyang during the Shane dynasty (1600-1040 BC) while a large amount (100,000 pieces) of piece-mould fragments were found. This led to the conclusion that lost wax was not performed in the capital during this dynasty. However, the discovery of a mask made using the investment moulding dated at around 1300 BC indicated that the lost wax technique may have influenced other regions in China.^[7]

Historians debate the origin of the development of the cannon but most evidence points to Turkey and Central Asia in the 18th and 19th century. The casting process of a cannon is a bit more complex with the use of a clay core, a template which has clay moulded around it and then broken out followed by an assembly in a casting pit that involves binding the casting with iron bands.^[4]

Types[edit]

Metal[edit]

In metalworking, metal is heated until it becomes liquid and is then poured into a mold. The mold is a hollow cavity that includes the desired shape, but the mold also includes runners and risers that enable the metal to fill the mold. The mold and the metal are then cooled until the metal solidifies. The solidified part (the casting) is then recovered from the mold. Subsequent operations remove excess material caused by the casting process (such as the runners and risers).

Plaster, concrete, or plastic resin[edit]

Plaster and other chemical curing materials such as concrete and plastic resin may be cast using single-use waste molds as noted above, multiple-use 'piece' molds, or molds made of small rigid pieces or of flexible material such as latex rubber (which is in turn supported by an exterior mold). When casting plaster or concrete, the material surface is flat and lacks transparency. Often topical treatments are applied to the surface. For example, painting and etching can be used in a way that give the appearance of metal or stone. Alternatively, the material is altered in its initial casting process and may contain colored sand so as to give an appearance of stone. By casting concrete, rather than plaster, it is possible to create sculptures, fountains, or seating for outdoor use. A simulation of high-quality marble may be made using certain chemically-set plastic resins (for example epoxy or polyester which are thermosetting polymers) with powdered stone added for coloration, often with multiple colors worked in. The latter is a common means of making washstands, washstand tops and shower stalls, with the skilled working of multiple colors resulting in simulated staining patterns as is often found in natural marble or travertine.

Fettling[edit]

Raw castings often contain irregularities caused by seams and imperfections in the molds,^[7] as well as access ports for pouring material into the molds.^[8] The process of cutting, grinding, shaving or sanding away these unwanted bits is called 'fettling'.^[9][10] In modern times robotic processes have been developed to perform some of the more repetitive parts of the fettling process,^[11] but historically fettlers carried out this arduous work manually,^[5] and often in conditions dangerous to their health.^[12]

Fettling can add significantly to the cost of the resulting product, and designers of molds seek to minimize it through the shape of the mold, the material being cast, and sometimes by including decorative elements.^[13][7]

Casting process simulation[edit]

Casting process simulation uses numerical methods to calculate cast component quality considering mold filling, solidification and cooling, and provides a quantitative prediction of casting mechanical properties, thermal stresses and distortion. Simulation accurately describes a cast component's quality up-front before production starts. The casting rigging can be designed with respect to the required component properties. This has benefits beyond a reduction in pre-production sampling, as the precise layout of the complete casting system also leads to energy, material, and tooling savings.

The software supports the user in component design, the determination of melting practice and casting methoding through to pattern and mold making, heat treatment, and finishing. This saves costs along the entire casting manufacturing route.

Casting process simulation was initially developed at universities starting from the early '70s, mainly in Europe and in the U.S., and is regarded as the most important innovation in casting technology over the last 50 years. Since the late '80s, commercial programs (such as AutoCAST and MAGMA) are available which make it possible for foundries to gain new insight into what is happening inside the mold or die during the casting process.

See also[edit]

• Centrifugal casting (industrial) – A casting technique that is typically used to cast thin-walled cylinders
• Core plug – Closure for sand casting core holes on water-cooled internal combustion engine blocks
• Die casting – Metal casting process that is characterized by forcing molten metal under high pressure into a mould cavity
• Glass casting – Process in which glass objects are cast by directing molten glass into a mould where it solidifies
• Investment casting – industrial process based on lost-wax casting
• Lost-foam casting – Type of evaporative-pattern casting process
• Lost-wax casting – Process by which a duplicate metal sculpture is cast from an original sculpture
• Molding (process) – Shaping a liquid or plastic material by making it conform to a more rigid mold
• Plaster Casting (Processs) ^[14] - Sand casting process with use of Plaster to fill gaps
• Permanent mold casting – A metal casting process that employs reusable molds
• Rapid casting – Use of 3-d printing to create disposable patterns
• Sand casting – Metal casting process using sand as the mold material
• Slipcasting – A forming technique in pottery

References[edit]

1. ^Degarmo, E. Paul; Black, J T.; Kohser, Ronald A. (2003), Materials and Processes in Manufacturing (9th ed.), Wiley, p. 277, ISBN0-471-65653-4
2. ^Ravi, B. (2005), Metal Casting: Computer-Aided Design and Analysis (1st ed.), PHI, ISBN81-203-2726-8
3. ^Davey, Christopher J. (2009). J. Mei; Th. Rehren (eds.). The early history of lost-wax casting. Metallurgy and Civilisation: Eurasia and Beyond. London. pp. 147–154.
4. ^ ^abcdefghiCraddock, Paul T (October 8, 2014). 'The Metal Casting Traditions of South Asia: Continuity and Innovation'. Indian Journal of History of Science. 50.1: 55–82.
5. ^ ^abJane L. Bassett; Peggy Fogelman; David A. Scott; Ronald C. Schmidtling (2008). The Craftsman Revealed: Adriaen de Vries, Sculptor in Bronze. Getty Publications. pp. 269–. ISBN978-0-89236-919-5.
6. ^Thoury, M.; et al. (2016). 'High spatial dynamics-photoluminescence imaging reveals the metallurgy of the earliest lost-wax cast object'. Nature Communications. 7. doi:10.1038/ncomms13356.
7. ^ ^abcGordon Elliott (2006). Aspects of Ceramic History: A Series of Papers Focusing on the Ceramic Artifact As Evidence of Cultural and Technical Development. Gordon Elliott. pp. 52–. ISBN978-0-9557690-0-9.
8. ^B. Ravi (1 January 2005). Metal Casting: Computer-Aided Design and Analysis. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. pp. 92–. ISBN978-81-203-2726-9.
9. ^T F Waters (11 September 2002). Fundamentals of Manufacturing For Engineers. CRC Press. pp. 17–. ISBN978-0-203-50018-7.
10. ^James T. Frane (1994). Craftsman's Illustrated Dictionary of Construction Terms. Craftsman Book Company. pp. 126–. ISBN978-1-57218-008-6.
11. ^The British Foundryman. 1986. p. 80.
12. ^Sidney Pollard (1993). A History of Labour in Sheffield. Gregg Revivals. pp. 284–285. ISBN978-0-7512-0215-1.
13. ^Iron and Steel. Louis Cassier. 1971. p. 80.
14. ^'Plaster Casting process'.

Further reading[edit]

• Campbell, John (2003), Casting (2nd ed.), Butterworth-Heinemann, ISBN0-7506-4790-6.

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