I have an audition this afternoon (a real one this time, I checked.) for a role in a television pilot.
It’s my first real audition.
(Cross an item off the bucket list.)
I’m off to break legs. (Metaphorically.)
Acting
The Cake Is A Lie
The audition turned out to not actually be a real thing.
Which. okay, yeah, kind of sucks. (Apparently it was a scam to get people to pay money for headshots. Just another reminder that I somehow always manage to have THE MOST AWESOME FRIENDS EVAR.)
I kind of had a feeling it might be, (partly because I got it off Gumtree, (the Australian equivalent of Craigslist) so many things found there are sketchy) but also because I have amazing relatives, one of whom does actually make a living in the business of acting, who was incredible about giving pointers. I mentioned something that had been sent to me in one of the emails about the gig, and she was all like “hmmm. I don’t know about that. You should send me the company name and I’ll look into them for you.”
and then I did my own search, didn’t come up with anything that actually looked real, and thought “eh, to hell with it. I just won’t spend any money pursuing it, so if it’s fake…it’ll be bummer, but I won’t really be out anything.”
(However, I didn’t find enough evidence to be confident enough to send the name of the agency to my relative, which is pretty much one of the biggest red flags in existence. (I guess my ego could handle getting conned, but not having an older, wiser person on the other side of the planet explain to me that I was getting conned (which is probably why a lot of cons actually work, now that I think about it.)))
It was also kind of a nice excuse to get my shit together, get some photos taken (and, now I have the name of some actual legit places to go find auditions and things, so good things did come of this venture.)
Also, I broke a heel. 😦
But not *me*, so actually, I’ll count that one as a win too. 😀
Headshots
I have an audition this afternoon for a part in a mini-series, so we’ll see how that goes. (*KNOCK ON WOOD*)
I was using this awesome black-and-white shot from my cousin’s wedding last summer
and I’ve been using that, but then I actually starting booking auditions and stuff, and I realized that black and white is not really accepted in the industry anymore.
So, I called up one of my amazing friends, and we did a photoshoot. Yay!
Now I’ve got some colour shots in hand for my audition tonight.
Wish me luck!
Stay on Target…
Today, I filmed my Star Wars audition tape.
Seriously. The script is *so* bad. The character descriptions sound like they were written from Cliché Bingo cards. I called up the only number I knew that belonged to a man, and asked if he would come over and read the lines for the character called “Thomas” for the purpose of the audition. Luckily for me, he used to be super into acting!
It was so much fun.
It took us pretty much the first hour to be able to get through the script without cracking up and the sheer cheese factor of it all. Then we did the whole “AC-TORE” thing where we over-analyzed the crap out of the twenty lines we were given, in an attempt to have them make any sense whatsoever.
All in all, I think we were quite successful.
It was my first audition tape, so I hope that it’s alright. (really, really, *REALLY* hope it’s alright, because, for real. It’s Star Wars. There are a lot of things that I would do to get into a Star Wars film. (Some of them are even legal.))
So, tonight I shall do my final edit, and send off my attempt at acting chops into a galaxy far, far away.
Wish me luck!
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