"The casting" is a short film we produced in our third year of the degree. We had a condition: at some point, someone has to say "I never thought it would be you". We, as a group, thought that following the atmosphere that this sentence needs would lead us to a very over-dramatic and tragic short, so we decided to go to the extreme and turn it around into a comedy.
We are the generation that when we were kids we used to see during our cartoons breaks the long commercials about (apparently) useful house appliances and services that would make the life easier and more comfortable. This ads used to take around four or five minutes where people exaggeratedly complain about a daily habit, and how that new product "saved their life".
Honoring our childhood memories, we decided to shoot the casting for those commercials. Without anyone knowing what the casting is for, when you see the outcome, it turns everything into comedy. It creates a feeling of repulsion seeing those people overact and the casting manager being so half-hearted, but seeing at the end what it was for, everything makes sense and it frees the atmosphere with the bad advertisement. It's one of those shorts when in the credits, everything changes the perspective.