I know it's been forever since I updated this thing. So many times I started writing posts about things I wanted to post about but never finished. I'll try to give the abbreviated versions of stuff.
My advanced class. Never got around to writing about this and I'm now seven classes into the second round. First round started off, uh, rather slowly? I went in expecting to start off with hard-core scenes, etc. but no...the first three or four classes were basic acting exercises. Huh, what? Now, I do have to say I DID get a lot out of this class...it just wasn't as advanced as me and some other people expected. I didn't want to sign up for a second round and have to start over from scratch but then found out we were doing different things so decided to take another round. This round was a lot more advanced - harder scenes, homework to prepare outside of class, etc. Now this round is coming to an end but don't think I'm going to do another round for various reasons - mostly because starting in September I may have something else going on the same night of class.
Voice over classes. I started them and have now had 3 sessions. Wow. Much harder, and MUCH more work than I expected. Also not going quite as smoothly as I hoped. Oh well. I'm not going to write much more about this because I do want to start writing separate posts for my VO stuff. This I promise I will do!
Auditions. Had four in July - just not for projects I'm not sure I want to get involved with. One was for a film version of a play. I think it was a full-length film, not a short. I found out about this the same day of the audition, couldn't make the time, sent a message to re-schedule for later in the day, never heard back, decided to go later in the day anyway. Had a somewhat upsetting experience before the audition, manged to keep it together to go to the audition, got the sides, it was a short monologue, did it best I could, no re-direction or anything, then was asked if I've seen the play version. I've heard of it but have never seen it. They give me a free pass to see the show that weekend. Ugh, was this a ploy to get people to the show? Was not up for going that weekend. IF it SEEMED like I was going to be actually CAST in this film, at least know I have a call back, I would go. But last time something like this happened I went to the callback, went to the show, talked with everyone, etc, and NEVER heard back, grrrr. (That actually turned out to be a blessing in disguise because 2 months later I got cast in a play I had been WANTING to do for a long time and wouldn't have been able to do it if I got cast in the other show).
Another audition was for some sort of interactive dinner-theater show type thing. I had gotten a message through Actors Access that I had submitted on something else but they wanted to bring me in for this. Okay...don't know if I want to get wrapped up in play rehearsals right now, but I'll go to the audition, and it's nearby in the Valley. The message said to come to the audition ready to improvise. Okay, easy enough, nothing to prepare so it's not like I'm spending hours preparing for an audition for something I'm not sure I even want to do. I get there. I see someone I know...who I think is a little odd...someone who claims they have TONS of auditions every month. Okay, good to know it's for smaller stuff and not paying, union gigs. One of the dudes auditioning us talks to us a little bit before we go in. I overhear him asking another person if they have a monologue. What! Okay, don't panic. I have a monologue I can pull out when I'm in a pinch like this. It's a decent monologue, and I like it, but don't know if it's completely right for me - the character is, but it's really written for someone about 15 years older than me. I've tried to make it more age-appropriate but something about it just doesn't feel right. But it'll do. I start running it in my head. Okay, I'm good. But I do wish they had MENTIONED this in the e-mail so I could've PREPARED a bit more! Ugh. But when the dude asks me if I have a monologue I can confidently say yes. Whew. Feels good to be prepared! When it's my turn to go in to audition dude #2 chats with me for awhile, then I do the monologue and he tells me to stick around to improv a scene with someone. I'm paired up with another girl and I think it goes well. Not perfect - I think I didn't follow a few improv rules and got stuck on one thing, but they said we listened well. Afterwards we were saying how that was an odd audition and wish we had been warned about the monologue. Oh, the other thing was two actors there did NOT have headshots with them. That's bad. Someone even said something to one of them. I understand it happens - I forgot to bring my headshot once, oop! how embarrasing! - but TWO people in a small group didn't have them. I'm glad I'm prepared!
I also went to audition to possibly be a part of one of those 48 hour film project things. It was in the South Bay the day before 4th of July weekend. Ugh, 2 hours to get there! They asked for something prepared too, and neglected to tell me I needed to prepare anything. They also had sides and I opted for the sides. Maybe I should've done a monologue. Didn't get cast in whatever they decided to do. Maybe it was because I pointed out that it was the day before the long weekend and asked a bunch of questions. These were young comic-book geek type dudes and, sorry, but I had questions. LEGITIMATE questions that NEED to be asked before getting involved with something. Is this their first film? What are they shooting on? What are they editing on, etc. I tried to keep it light and conversational like I was just curious but in reality was fishing for info. Hmm, they seemed to have it together but they were young. Also didn't know if I would mesh with them well - have a feeling they would want to make some weird-sci-fi-fantasy type film that doesn't interest me.
The fourth audition was for a play. It's actually a series of monologues - man, I love those abstract monologue shows, lol. It went GREAT. I'm not saying anything else right now because I *think* I got cast in it and don't want to jinx it because everything else seems to be falling apart right now.
I also finished my French class. It was more fun and got easier as the weeks went by. I signed up for level 2 but it got cancelled due to low enrollment. Oh well, I can take it in the fall, or at another community college.
Other than that I've been trying to get out more, do more. Went to a few networking things, hopefully will do some CD workshops this month. Had a few CDs come to my class. The usual.
But I think it's time for a change.
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