You've Got An Audition: Part Six
THE HOBBIT BOOKS THE JOB (YOU GOT THE JOB: NOW YOU CAN CHILL) First of all, you got the job. Congratulations. Do a victory lap and give yourself a big psychic hug. Share with friends and loved ones. Take in your moment – you’ve worked hard for this and so enjoy the victorious sensation for a while, before you start worrying about your day or days on set. Remember the following: 1/ They believe in you! They picked YOU over many others (sometimes 100+ people,) and YOU were the one they chose. 2/ They believe that you fit into the...
You've Got An Audition: Part Five
THE UPS AND DOWNS – LIFE’S JOURNEY “If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” Carl Jung If you are going to stay in this business for the long haul one has to learn how to see life as a continuum or a wave not as a stock market graph. The tide comes in, the tide goes out. Beware the fate of Smeagol (Gollum) and your desire for the shiny object. In this blog I’d like to explore a few exit strategies to find your way out of this intricate web we weave for ourselves. We...
You've Got An Audition: Part Four
THE HOBBIT ENTERS THE ROOM(S) PART 2: THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL PAUSE! Have you read Part One of this series? Click HEREYou have? Great! Have you read Part Two of this series? Click HEREAnd how about Part Three? Click HERESo glad you’re caught up - let’s go! Not so fast! NEWS FLASH!!! There is a 4th room coming. In fact it is already here. Just as the tiresome phrase "the new normal" became a knee jerk reaction to say we now have "Hybrid". At LB Studio's and Casting Central we are experimenting with a format for a class and Casting Session...
You've Got An Audition: Part Three
THE HOBBIT ENTERS THE ROOM- AH BUT WHICH ROOM? PAUSE! Have you read Part One of this series? Click HEREYou have? Great! Have you read Part Two of this series? Click HERESo glad you’re caught up - let’s continue….Once upon a time, there was only one room to enter: It was called an audition room. There was no need for the qualifier - “live” audition, “virtual” audition, “self-tape” audition etc. Michael Shurtleff’s golden rule withstood the test of time that “the purpose of an audition was to make a human connection.” I stand by this statement and my own humble...
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