Actor Growth

As mentioned yesterday, today was the day that I got to see how one would tackle an audition that has character voice overs. Funny enough, what happened at first was that we were told the top section of the sides would be omitted. Afterwards, we did indeed run through the scene with the remaining voiceover dialogue.

Basically, we just had to do the audition as if the thought bubble voice over part was the main scene while ignoring the action where the present form character is in motion. I tell ya, this was super confusing at first for me in trying to determine exactly what was going on logistically.

It was so confusing for me that when I did it the first time around I thought that the two characters were actively in a corridor while having a small argument with each other as they were waiting for a security system to go down. Hence, I was playing it like they were next to each other and that the character was actively looking at the camera in the ceiling while waiting fir it to turn off.

The funny thing? I did the audition very well where in the scene I gave a lot of good reactions while establishing my environment. The thing is though, apparently that whole part was all a bubble memory still and the character was actually all by himself. So, I did the scene again with the coach’s notes. He expressed how I nailed it and that it’s so great that I can easily take direction.

He then suggested that every time I get an audition that I should call him up first so that I can talk it over as it seems like it’s usually just the interpretation of the audition sides that I get confused with at times. But once I know what it is all about I have no problems. I guess again that comes from having studied mostly in a scene study oriented program where you always go through the scenes extensively with the director.

After class I did talk to the coach about my career direction to try and create some goals to advance to the next step. Because at this point it is pretty stagnant professionally speaking. Here was the interesting thing. He was commenting how I have the skills, I can take direction very well where I am easy to work with and that there is this energy about my work where I don’t even need to try too hard to make an impact in a scene. He then said that I just needed someone who can get my foot in the door, so to speak.

Afterwards, he said that he was going to help me with it. Yeah, I was kind of shocked. Basically, he was fully willing to help guide me in my career path, give me advice and doing things such as checking out my demo reel and making sure that my representation is working for me. So, the first thing is that he will be taking a look at my demo reel to see what needs changing and if I should include different scenes.

What a great gesture I thought. It’s like having a mentor and a manager in some ways. Talk about going above and beyond. Looking forward to see what happens next.