Wallanet Launches Acting Site TheRightCast.com

TheRightCast wanted to provide a variety of online tools for actors like actor home pages for an actor’s resume and headshot, electronic submissions to casting notices, and an agency interface for a talent agent to mange his roster of actors. They needed an admin interface so they could administer certain aspects of the site as well as a host of admin tools for actors and casting directors so they could get their information online quickly and securely.

The challenge with this project was the fact that no open source solution existed so the entire site had to be written by Wallanet from scratch. Wallanet used Perl/PHP for the front and backend scripting and a MYSQL database.

There were three basic sections of the website.

The actor section needed a portal for actors to log in and upload their resume and headshot. The headshots were going to come in a variety of shapes and sizes so Wallanet used the ImageMagik module to crop images on the fly so the headshots maintained a consistent image quality. TheRightCast also wanted to give actors the ability to print a clean, consistent resume. Wallanet custom wrote some code to convert the actor’s resume in to a PDF document for high quality printing.

The second section was an interface for casting directors to post casting notices and then see the actors who had responded to their notices. This was a pretty straight forward interface with some custom MYSQL tables and Perl code. It also had to tie in with the actors in the database to allow them to electronically submit to the posted casting notices.

The third section of the website was the agent interface. Through this interface an agent needed to manage a whole roster of actors, submitting them to projects, contacting them, and creating custom actor lists for casting directors.

To see the finished website you can go here: http://www.therightcast.com