working with talent for the most part is fairly simple unless they are pushed into the situation of being the star. Most of the time the talent are there because they want to be and they want to be the star.

It really does not matter who they are, family friends, or someone off of the street. If you have a project and they fit the scene you make it work. If it's a modeling composite for a new actress, you may then want to see what clothing she or he has and think of locations or props to use to accent the model. I generally have the art department, makeup and producers help in picking out matching clothing as I work with the person in what they are going to do. What is the scene, how shall they approach the scene and what might there goal be.

There's a big difference between models and actors. for still photography people can be a little stiff and not have much experience, but for on-camera sound up motion, there's a big difference. That's my look at it, but many models cannot act for screen as in motion. I find more people can move somewhat in modeling for stills but when the motion camera is on they freeze up especially with sound up and lines to say.

If you work with professional talent it's actually very easy to get just about anything you need. un-professional talent is where you have to really perform as a director. Sometimes you cannot get what you need from the talent and have to live with what you have, other times it just takes patience and time, something you usually don't have on a shoot. But in all if they the talent are there because they want to be and are not forced into it (as in using your own people like in car spots) they will tend to give you a good performance to their ability.

Then there are the people who are just extremely good at it and those who are just bad. I prefer casting sessions for anything to make sure the talent fits the role, but many times the client has the talent in their mind or already picked for the production. Then, everyone expects you and the talent to do what they see in their mind.

Shooting theme parks we sometimes have hundreds of extras milling through the shots blending in with our key talent. In theme parks its really the fun times that we need to see most of the time. And in say so the talent generally has to just have a lot of fun and enjoy themselves. Although one time we had to shoot the roller coaster at Busch Gardens multiple times for different camera angles. So the park people kept running the talent around the track and eventually half of them had to get off. It's not always like that but in this case we should have stopped the coaster but they had them timed out running two of them and just kept the main talent in one coaster going on all the time.