Lead, Follow or Get The Hell Out of The Way!
I didn’t coin the expression that I titled this post with, but I’ve heard it said lots during my lifetime. There are times when you’ve been cast in a project and you need to follow as the director brings your performance to a fine pitch. I know, sometimes you’re not blessed with that kind of […]
Volume in a Loop Session
Want to know the easiest way to tell if you’ve never looped before? In my opinion it’s your volume. Most people that have never looped (or very seldom looped) will be “very mousy” when it’s their turn to speak. Better to be too loud and told to “turn it down” than too soft I always […]
The First Two Seconds
Place yourself in the mind/ears of a buyer who is combing through oodles of auditions. Usually your agent is the first in a long line of people to listen to your audition. Your agent hears all of the auditions that their clients send in for a particular role. Let’s say they hear 50 people for […]
Have Quarters, Will Audition
Commercial casting happens all over town. You can have auditions in Santa Monica, the Valley, East LA—all in one day, if you are really lucky. But no matter where the audition is, I can pretty much guarantee that parking will be an issue. When I first moved to town I learned the hard way the […]
Top 5 Most Watched Webisodes in September 2010
WARNING! May read this and feel incredibly discouraged about the state of art in this world! This may be a tough pill to swallow for those of us who put an incredible amount time and energy into making creative quality projects to put out there to the entertainment industry… BUT it IS important to understand […]
Top 5 Best Sites to Post Your Videos On…
1. YouTube (www.youtube.com) Has anyone heard of this site? Easy to use, upload, navigate. A lot of user features and places to comment. And of course, a lot of traffic… maybe too much. It’s easy to get lost in the loads of kitten home videos.
How To Say “No”: part 2
So, as we were discussing in part 1: when someone has made a request of you that you don’t want to do, you need a sincere yet definitive way to nicely say “no” that lets the person down easy but doesn’t give them any room to wiggle around your answer. Here are two suggestions – […]
What I Love About This Business (Hint: Voice Over and New Media)
I am a huge believer in the mantra, “do what you love and the money will follow.” The inaccessibility of so many areas of the entertainment industry has been made null and void by the advances of new media and the wide availability of affordable equipment and software. If you wanna be creative, then go […]
Commit to Your Material
Hi everybody, I know I’m in the middle of a blog series about self-producing, but I just had to break out to tell you briefly about a solo performance train wreck I recently saw and the important lessons it offered.
Cheat sheets aren’t just for high school, anymore.
You have been doing as I’ve suggested: you read the trades on a daily basis; you’ve been watching TV to see what types of new shows are getting made, which old shows are getting canceled and which are getting picked-up, again. Additionally, you’re developing your own ideas in hopes of getting pitch meetings, selling the […]