Virtual Casting Sessions — Live Remote Auditions With Real Camera Control

How it works with CLOS

CLOS keeps a remote casting as close to an in-person callback as possible: you brief and invite talent, bring their phone online as the camera, then direct and capture, with every take landing in the cloud as you go.

01

Open a casting room and invite talent

Create a session and send talent, agents and producers a single join link — no app to install for anyone watching. Batch candidates into short blocks so an open call moves quickly.

02

Bring the talent's camera online

The actor or model joins from their phone and props it on a stand. You see the live feed instantly and can set the frame, focus and exposure before the read begins.

03

Direct, capture and share selects

Give notes, run the read, then trigger full-resolution frames or roll audition video the instant a take works. Every capture uploads to your cloud dashboard in real time, so you shortlist and share selects with clients the moment the session wraps.

Running live castings and open calls

A virtual casting session replaces the casting suite, not the casting director. You still run the read, coach the performance and make the call — you just do it over a browser room while the talent stays in their own city. Because you hold the camera on their phone through remote camera control, you can reframe a slate, pull focus for a close-up, or fix a blown-out window before the take instead of squinting at whatever a webcam happens to give you.

The same room scales up into a virtual open call. Send one link to a long list of hopefuls, group them into short back-to-back slots, and move from one person to the next without resetting a physical room or checking anyone into a lobby. Each candidate gets the same brief and the same setup, so the twentieth read is captured to the same standard as the first. Live direction is the difference between a real casting and a pile of self-tapes: you can push a second take, adjust a pose, or steer a line reading in the moment, and you walk away with usable selects rather than footage you have to re-request.

Directed reads, captured like for like

The point of a live casting is that you direct every read — and that direction carries straight into the capture. Because you hold the camera on each candidate’s phone, you set the slate framing, pull focus and lock exposure yourself, take after take. No one is judged against the quirks of their own handset: every hopeful is directed and shot under one set of controls, so a callback weighs the performance and the look rather than the lighting.

When a client wants retouch-grade reference, Pro adds RAW and Apple ProRaw and lets you switch between the telephoto and ultra-wide lenses. The payoff is a uniform grid a producer can shortlist from with confidence, and stand behind when someone asks why one read advanced and another did not.

Client and producer attendance, same-day selects

The people who approve a cast are rarely in the room, and that is usually where remote castings fall apart. In CLOS they simply join the browser virtual room by link — no install, no account juggling — and watch the live feed alongside you. A producer can react to a read as it happens, an agent can confirm their talent is comfortable, and a brand can weigh in before the slot ends, all in an access-controlled, encrypted session.

Because every frame and clip streams to the cloud the moment it is captured, there is nothing to export and email afterward. You favorite the keepers during the session, then share a single select, a curated selection, or the whole block as a ZIP through real-time cloud delivery — often before the talent has left their room. Same-day selects keep a casting moving at the speed a production needs, instead of stalling for a day while tapes are collected, transcoded and chased down.

Who uses this

• Casting directors running film, TV and commercial auditions who need live direction and usable selects, not a folder of self-tapes.
• Modeling and talent agencies scouting and reviewing talent worldwide — see how CLOS fits an agency workflow on the modeling agencies persona page.
• Advertising and brand producers casting faces for a campaign before booking the shoot in the same room.
• Film and commercial productions running remote callbacks across cities without flying anyone in.
• UGC and spokesperson casting screening creators on camera before handing them a video brief.