Auditions For Current And Future Opportunities
Mar 26th, 2009 by Alan Yu
Today I got an interesting e-mail as a person that I auditioned for a few months back contacted me and was interesting in having me on his film. While it was a volunteer film and sounded fun, unfortunately I couldn’t accept it in the end as something came up that conflicted with my schedule.
But the thing to take away about this one though was that although I didn’t get the part when I audition for his other film, because I auditioned for it he remembered me for future roles. That can be the case many times too where when you audition for a part that you don’t end up getting it can still open up new opportunities.
The important thing is that you get your name and face out there while portraying yourself professionally so that people remember you for other potential opportunities.
Jenna Fischer from the Office got her job there for the exact same reason. Casting director remembered her from previous auditions.
It’s all chronicled here: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=27753303&blogID=141657788
Just keep at it!
Yep, you hit the nail on the head. When I started out as an actor, I would attend many meetings. Meetings being the operative word. They were not auditions but simply meetings. In many cases there wasn’t even a script in place and the casting directors were not even sure what they were looking for!
All they wanted to do was meet you and see what you were like.
In nearly all cases, I would get some sort of call back or link to a job from that initial meeting. It’s all about getting your name out and face remembered.
Kirk