Short Independent Film

Okay, so I submitted for a short film that decided to have auditions over Thanksgiving weekend.  I, however, was in Phoenix visiting my brother so I couldn't make it.  When I got back to Cali on Sunday, I got an email saying that they were still having auditions that day.  So I emailed back and they told me to head down but I had to be there by 6:30.  It was 4:45 and we had just finished a 6 hour drive.  Not so pretty.  So I rapidly changed and downloaded the script and headed out.  Fortunately, the director called me and warned me of a little traffic due to a parade going on right near the audition so to avoid a couple of exits off the highway.

A little?  I passed two exits that were closed, skipped the next one which was backed up because of traffic and took the following exit.  Unfortunately that ramp goes below the highway and I couldn't see that it was backed up as well.  It took me 25 minutes just to get off the ramp.  Ack!  Once I got through that, I had to back track to the streets from those other exits and unfortunately, that is exactly where the parade route was.  Every street going that direction or leading anywhere towards that direction was blocked off and surrounded by police.  And every other street was cramped with people looking for parking.  The people who actually had houses in that area were charging people to park on their lawns and were selling things out of their garages.  Craziness!  So I finally make it over to the location, which thankfully I've been to a hundred times before, and now I have to find parking.  Usually, this location is a pain in the butt for parking, but tonight it was horrendous and actually impossible.  So now its 6:45pm and I've been letting the director know the whole time what's going on.  He wants to reschedule but I'm already there and I'm the only one he's waiting for.  I did not spend all this time in traffic for nothing just to come back possibly tomorrow.  So he agrees to meet me across the street at Jack in the Box.  But I get there and miscommunication, he wanted me to park there and walk over which I couldn't do anyways because there was a traffic officer right at that intersection watching the parking situation.  But thankfully, he checked out of the audition location and walked over to meet me.  We read through 2 parts of the script once and that was it.  The second part we read through I hadn't even read before so it was an ice cold read.  It was ridiculous.  And on top of that, I still had another 45 minute drive back home.  Ugh!    It took me 2 hours to go 4 miles round trip and have a 10 minute ice cold audition in a Jack in the Box.  There are no words...

I've lived here for a couple of years and I've never even heard of this parade! 

National Commercial!

Awesome National Commercial audition today!  They told us we'd be reading the sides from a teleprompter so I promptly freaked out an researched tips online about doing just that.  So glad I did that.  I never realized that there was someone scrolling the teleprompter so you can speak as slowly as you like and they'll follow you.  I'm used to that because that's what you do with the pianist at a vocal audition.  Anywho, so I get there and (awesome!) I'm the only girl and there are a bunch of guys.  So I get to audition multiple times with different guys and get extra takes.  The best part was, the teleprompter they were using had the camera inside it.  So you literally read the lines and no can tell!  The weird part was that my partner was sittting next to me, and for audition purposes we had to look at the camera as if it was the person sitting next to us becaus of the teleprompter.  But it was fun!  So then, I find out there's another script that has two girls my age and look so I get to audition for BOTH of those parts too!  Cross your finger cause that seriously ups my chances of booking!  And lastly, the audition was all the way down in south orange county so probably half the amount of people that would normally be there were there.  Yep, it was good.  :)

Product Promotion

So I had a commercial audition today.  Yay!  Well, it was more of an industrial commercial to raise money and get support for the advertising of this new product.  It was odd cause we just had to read these single lines that a bunch of different people would be reading in the commercial.  And at the end, we had to make up our own.  I even ended up putting down the script and improving whatever I wanted about the project for a good minute.  It was fun!  Too bad we didn't get to try the product.  It looked yummy! 

Oh, the funny thing was that they were looking for Obama type young people.  So not me!  They asked what we thought of when we thought of peace and all I could think of was Support the Troups and Recycling!  Everyone else was like - gay rights, africa, and the Katrina support.  God I'm such a Republican sometimes!

The Callback

So that short film audition that I did in front of that huge group of people?  Well, I got a callback for it.  People amaze me.  Its like Hollywood is always in a bad mood.  The director of the short was in such a bad mood.  She barely even said hi to me.  It was like she didn't even want me at the call back.  I guess they only called two of us back and then invited about 20 new people in as well.  The call back went well, crying, and all cause the scene was so scary..yada yada, but I just wasn't excited about the project anymore. Since I wasn't getting paid I didn't feel that the project was worth my time to deal with bad attitudes.  I walked out of there kinda hoping that I wouldn't get it.