How it works
Put your location scouts and castings in a private gallery. Your client opens a link on their phone, taps what they like, and you see the answer as it happens. Nobody installs anything.
Give it a name and choose a location scout or a casting.
Drag them in. Folders are made for you.
PrePro Selects creates the login and writes the message for you.
Votes, likes and comments arrive as they happen.
Step by step
Sign up at preproselects.com with Start free: your company, your name, your email and a password, then tick to accept the terms. Free, with no card and no time limit. Then:
Why the wrap date? Client logins switch off by themselves 30 days after it, so nothing stays open by accident. A casting is deleted 60 days after you create it, with an email 14, 7 and 1 day before.
Everything sits in categories and folders: a category such as Coast, and inside it one folder for each option.
Faster: drag a whole folder from your computer and PrePro Selects creates it for you. Keep the page open until it says Upload complete. Videos often show up first as a quick preview, and the full quality follows by itself.
A whole team on one login? No problem. Each person types their own name when they open the gallery, so everyone's selects stay separate.
For casting directors
The people you cast send their own photos, tapes and answers through a link. You go through them, then show your client the ones you choose.
Create a project with the type Casting. Open Casting links, click New casting, name it, and tick what it runs: Street casting, In studio, Self-tape, or any mix.
Type each role and click Add role. It gets its street-casting and self-tape links at once, for whichever of the two the casting runs. In studio has one link shared by all roles.
People answer on their phone, with no account and nothing to install. Each person lands in their own folder with their photos, tapes and answers.
Open Submissions on the link and see everyone as Cards or a List. New people appear on their own.
Everyone who fills in a link’s form is team only: no client login sees them until you press Approve and show.
They vote in the gallery, and you get the Selects report (PDF).
Only on the casting accounts: casting links, upload links and the uploader role come with Casting Director Essential, Casting Director and Casting Director Personalized. On Free, Solo, Studio and Production, only the owner and admins upload.
On a casting project: client logins stop working 30 days after the wrap date, and the project is deleted with its files 60 days after you create it. You get an email 14, 7 and 1 day before, and you can keep it 14 more days once. A casting you add later shares the project's date.
Casting links
A casting can run one kind of link or all three. Each starts from a ready form, and you can add your own questions to any of them.
Example: a supermarket film needs real shoppers, so you set up outside a market.
Example: a car commercial needs a lead, and tapes are due on Friday at 18:00.
Example: a two-day casting at your studio, with three roles.
There is no Yes, Maybe or No here, and each person has one role.
Example: a beer commercial with a street casting for the regulars, self-tapes from agents for the lead, then a recall in studio.
Example: a photographer or an agent has files to hand over, with no form to fill in.
Casting Director Essential has one seat, so it has upload links but no room for an uploader.
There is no separate kids form. A child can apply on any link, with a parent or guardian.
After the links
Already have the tapes? A project of the type Casting works without links, on every plan.
Then add a client login and open a round, as above.
What your client sees
No account and no app. Your client opens the link, signs in with the username and password you sent, and types their name.
See the answers
No chasing: when your client clicks Finished reviewing, you get an email.
Your team and your scouts
The workspace's owner and admins upload: when a scout sends their photos, drag the folder in and it keeps its folders. Links that let people outside the team upload, for a scout or for talent on a street casting or a self-tape, come with the casting accounts.
Click your initials (top right), then Workspace settings → Team. Add their email and click Send invite. Copy the link that appears and send it to them: they choose their own password. Owners can do everything and admins everything except billing. On Casting Director and Casting Director Personalized you can also invite uploaders, who only add files.
Prefer to read?
Seven PDF guides with the workflows, the templates and the messages to send your client, including two for the Casting Director account.
Questions
No. They need the link, the username and the password you sent. It works on any phone, tablet or computer.
Yes. Each person types their name when they open the gallery, so their votes and comments stay separate and you can see who said what.
Yes. In People, click Edit on their login and untick Can download. You can also limit a login to certain categories or folders.
In People, click Edit → Reset password, and send them the new one.
PrePro Selects doesn't email the login itself: it gives you a ready-made message to paste into WhatsApp or your own email. Clients are emailed when you open a round, send a reminder or tell them about new files, but only if we have an email address for them.
On the sign-in page, click Forgot password and we email you a link to choose a new one. No email? Write to hello@preproselects.com from the address you signed up with.
Yes. Every gallery sits behind a login and nothing is listed publicly. You decide who gets a login, which folders it opens and whether it can download. Castings are watermarked on every plan.
Not with a client login. Everyone who fills in a casting link’s form stays team only until you press Approve and show. Two things your team makes can show them sooner: a view-only link to that person, and the Client list of an In studio link.
Yes, on street-casting and self-tape links. Click each role on their card on Submissions: their folder is copied into each role's category, and the copies share the files. In studio, each person has one role.
Free, the no-cost plan: one project, one client login and 1 GB of storage. No card, and no time limit. A casting with self-tapes runs to about 7.4 GB, so when a real job goes on it, open Billing and plan from the menu under your initials, or see Pricing, and upgrade by card.
Put a real shortlist on it and send it to one real client. Stuck? Write to hello@preproselects.com, and a person will answer.