Shooting an audition on the 3rds
Filming Auditions on the “Thirds” Sometimes it’s great to break things up when you’re filming an audition and not stand smack in the center of frame. You can stand on […]
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Auditioning
Sound for self tapes
#TechniqueTuesday – Great Sound for Your Tapes! For actors in today’s world, it’s all about self-tapes. And that means putting your best foot forward no matter where your self-tape is
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Don’t Recite Your Lines, Discover Your Lines
So here’s a dilemma. We have to learn our lines to play our parts. But once we’re playing them it needs to seem like we’ve never said those lines before.
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Dealing with No
The acting industry can be a roller-coaster. The ups are so exhilarating and the downs can be super hard to deal with, heartbreaking even. AND as actors we’re super sensitive
Excited & Scared: Pre-Audition Jitters!
Do you remember in Into the Woods when Little Red Riding Hood sings about her encounter with the Big Bad Wolf? She goes on and on about being scared, well,
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Nailing Those Off Camera Eye lines!
Are you camera savvy? Do you know how to work your eye lines? Not look too far away from the lens but not too close? Knowing how to work the
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Referencing: Creating A 3D World In Auditions
How can you really make your auditions stand out? Is there a secret sauce that will catch the casting directors eye? Set you apart from the sea of actors going
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In Search of Perfect Self-Tape Lighting?
Self-taping your auditions is becoming more and more common for actors. And will probably one day completely eclipse going into the casting office. There are some advantages to that and disadvantages. Meeting one-on-one can be a great way to build relationships with casting directors. But with self-tapes you get more than one try to knock that audition out of the park. Which can be HUGE.
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Lifting Off! [+Post Malone!]
Lifting Off is a fabulous technique that, with a little practice, will help you get your eyes off the page and you out of your script with cold reads! What
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Audition Prep
You get the email from your agent with the sides! Awesome! You’ve got an audition. Tomorrow?! That’s right. Most of us get less than 24 hours to prep an audition. How do you do it? How do you make it your own, make great choices, get off book and be that ever elusive “castable”? Well, in the video below we’ve got a pro that walks you through the blow by blow from the night before when the sides come in to the session in the taping room. If you want to up your audition game, watch this!