hey everybody! here is my second installment of the video blog. yesterday i had a callback for a taco bell commercial. i can't say who, but there's a pretty big athlete in the spot, which is neat. to shoot this video, i just used my point and shoot canon, and the sound quality is terrible, i apologize. but, i just bought this little digital video recorder and maybe that will be better for future installments. this was really fun to make...i dicked around with imovie for the first time....hehe...dork. i love this shit. so...watch it! i hope you like it!
Showing posts with label auditioning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label auditioning. Show all posts
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Maybe I Jinxed Myself
Gah, I got released from the Verizon spot damnit!! haha! But you see, people, this is what actors go through. You almost get the job, you don't the job. Sometimes you get the job, but the spot doesn't ever make it on the air. And then sometimes you REALLY get the job, and the spot airs a ton and you make lots of $$$$$.
THANKFULLY, my Pizza Hut spot is AIRING! Fuck yeah! This means residual earnings for yours truly. Excellent. If you watch sports much, I think it will mostly be airing during the games. So, you win some, you lose some. Onto the the next!!
TONIGHT: Workshop with a casting director named Kari Kurto who used to work on the shows Weeds and My Name is Earl. She was an associate on those shows, but left to start her own office, which tells me this is a great time to meet her. Should be fun!
THANKFULLY, my Pizza Hut spot is AIRING! Fuck yeah! This means residual earnings for yours truly. Excellent. If you watch sports much, I think it will mostly be airing during the games. So, you win some, you lose some. Onto the the next!!
TONIGHT: Workshop with a casting director named Kari Kurto who used to work on the shows Weeds and My Name is Earl. She was an associate on those shows, but left to start her own office, which tells me this is a great time to meet her. Should be fun!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
The Slim Reaper
I had an audition today for the show "Reaper" on the CW network. This year, I've had on average about one audition per month. Ideally, I should be going out once a week, but with the writer's strike earlier this year and the impending SAG strike, most actors have been experiencing "The Great Depression" of acting work this year.
However, this drought has been a prime opportunity for me to work out some of my acting issues. These are all very much internal issues (and probably ego too), that have made my acting laughable in the first few years of my time in Los Angeles. I am not too proud to admit that i was peddling shit to the various casting directors around town my first two years of going on big, intimidating, super-legitimate auditions.
Oh man, if ONLY i could go back and do all those auditions again. I sucked. I mean REALLY REALLY SUCKED.
Part of the problem was that I thought that I could get away with never acting outside of the times I was auditioning. BAD IDEA. Not acting outside of auditioning is probably the worst thing anyone can do for their acting career. Especially once we become "grown-ups," whatever that means, it becomes harder and harder to get out of your goddamn huge-ass head. All those thoughts you're having--did I read that line right, or can the casting director can see my huge zit, or am i bloated from that pizza i ate stoned last night--these are all poison in the audition room.
When you're all drugged out on insecurity, you're gonna blow your audition unless it's for some ridiculously insecure and neurotic character. So yeah, you can either wait for the universe to align in exactly that way and book one gig, or you can work your shit out and start booking lots of gigs.
In my acting class, my teacher would say that your problems in acting are usually your problems in life. This is soooooo true. So...now i just try to make my life better. It's working so far, and my acting is coming back. It's like I came out of a coma. Now if the auditions would just start pouring in...I'm more ready than I've ever been.
However, this drought has been a prime opportunity for me to work out some of my acting issues. These are all very much internal issues (and probably ego too), that have made my acting laughable in the first few years of my time in Los Angeles. I am not too proud to admit that i was peddling shit to the various casting directors around town my first two years of going on big, intimidating, super-legitimate auditions.
Oh man, if ONLY i could go back and do all those auditions again. I sucked. I mean REALLY REALLY SUCKED.
Part of the problem was that I thought that I could get away with never acting outside of the times I was auditioning. BAD IDEA. Not acting outside of auditioning is probably the worst thing anyone can do for their acting career. Especially once we become "grown-ups," whatever that means, it becomes harder and harder to get out of your goddamn huge-ass head. All those thoughts you're having--did I read that line right, or can the casting director can see my huge zit, or am i bloated from that pizza i ate stoned last night--these are all poison in the audition room.
When you're all drugged out on insecurity, you're gonna blow your audition unless it's for some ridiculously insecure and neurotic character. So yeah, you can either wait for the universe to align in exactly that way and book one gig, or you can work your shit out and start booking lots of gigs.
In my acting class, my teacher would say that your problems in acting are usually your problems in life. This is soooooo true. So...now i just try to make my life better. It's working so far, and my acting is coming back. It's like I came out of a coma. Now if the auditions would just start pouring in...I'm more ready than I've ever been.
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