Yesterday's Audition
Jun. 5th, 2012 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenWhile it wasn't Broadway, a movie, a TV show or a commercial, it will apparently be a short film, festival piece, or festival submission. This was my first "cold read" ever. I had no copy of the script. When I arrived, there were no copies of the script. When the guy walked out of the room - The Red Room (and, well, it was behind a red door) - and did a double-take at me, THAT's when I got a copy of three pages of the script. And I got to size up my competition right then - about the same build but looked a little doughier, different features, and didn't look quite as professional (IMHO). Not sure if that matters anyway. What does matter is that THAT guy had received the whole script like two days earlier via email. I got an email response for the audition, but no attachment. They had that guy run through the full script - 10 minutes or so - twice.
It was an interesting experience and I look forward to more of these. Matt gets the information from Craigslist and other places and goes. He's got some parts in upcoming festival pieces already! There was a part that he really wanted to audition for last week, but he was just too sick to go, which was unfortunate. But, there will be more.
I had to read through the ethereal, surreal script twice. It's basically a 3-person script; my part was the support actor to the lead. One read-through was with the first reader, who looked a lot like Zach Braff. The second read-through was with the other selected opposite to my role. That guy - long, brown, curly hair, smelled faintly that he'd gone through a day - a little street-worn, yet actually wasn't all that hard on the eyes. Both of these guys were very thin. The second guy seemed to understand his role better.
The great thing is, during the entire experience, I didn't have time to get nervous at all. My life doesn't depend on any level of acting or gigs. All that sort of weight is lifted off my shoulders already. It felt good to be there going through the process of learning lines off the page enough to emote something. THAT was cool.
Oh, and here's my head shot I'm using (Matt made it slightly more "head shot worthy"):
Edits: Changed "art films" to festival piece and/or festival film, since the directors will be submitting these pieces to festivals. Also, "art films" tend to be code for porn, which these are not.
It was an interesting experience and I look forward to more of these. Matt gets the information from Craigslist and other places and goes. He's got some parts in upcoming festival pieces already! There was a part that he really wanted to audition for last week, but he was just too sick to go, which was unfortunate. But, there will be more.
I had to read through the ethereal, surreal script twice. It's basically a 3-person script; my part was the support actor to the lead. One read-through was with the first reader, who looked a lot like Zach Braff. The second read-through was with the other selected opposite to my role. That guy - long, brown, curly hair, smelled faintly that he'd gone through a day - a little street-worn, yet actually wasn't all that hard on the eyes. Both of these guys were very thin. The second guy seemed to understand his role better.
The great thing is, during the entire experience, I didn't have time to get nervous at all. My life doesn't depend on any level of acting or gigs. All that sort of weight is lifted off my shoulders already. It felt good to be there going through the process of learning lines off the page enough to emote something. THAT was cool.
Oh, and here's my head shot I'm using (Matt made it slightly more "head shot worthy"):
Edits: Changed "art films" to festival piece and/or festival film, since the directors will be submitting these pieces to festivals. Also, "art films" tend to be code for porn, which these are not.
