An Audition or An Interview Session?
May 15th, 2009 by Alan Yu
Today I went to audition for what sounded like a fun project. It was a silent on camera type of role for a volunteer commercial done mainly for practice it seems. Upon arrival it was interesting as they had no script or direction at all.
All I did was go in-front of the camera and they told me to talk a bit about myself. Essentially, that was their way just to see how one looks on camera and it lasted about 2 minutes. It felt more like an interview than an audition.
Granted they were new, but usually in these situations you are set up in an environment that in some way mimics what you would actually being doing during filming. Example, in this case the scene was supposed to be a bunch of guys sitting in a boardroom and usually they would get you to at least sit down to see some reaction shots. But like in this scenario I just stood up talking to the production people. Very strange audition overall.
