Audition Tips: 5 Powerful Things Casting Directors Wish Actors Understood About Auditioning

here are five things that casting directors truly wish actors understood about auditioning number one your slates won't make or break your audition here's an audition fact no actor has ever gotten the part because of their great slate stop obsessing over it now that doesn't mean it's not important it has a function it also shows them you're a professional it lets them see you can take simple Direction by following the instructions that they just gave you if any and most of all it allows them a teeny tiny little glimpse of what you're like is you not the character because about to see that in the audition anyway so that's it don't overthink it the second thing casting directors wish you understood is this yes casting directors judge you it's literally their job so if judgment feels icky to you it's because you decided it was icky because the literal definition of judgment is this the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions so my point is there's no ick in that definition casting directors have to judge you when they watch your audition so they can cast you so judgment is neither good nor bad it's just a tool to help them do their job so you can get the part so the more you relax about being judged the less power judgment has over you and the more power you have over everything the third thing casting directors wish you understood is this casting directors don't need to be your BFF to cast you while networking and connecting and creating relationships are absolutely a vital part of every successful actor's career that doesn't mean you have to be buddies with a casting director to get cast yay right and most casting directors love actors it's one of the reasons why they do what they do but they also value and respect professionalism and boundaries so when it comes to Casting you the most important thing to a casting director is just watching your Rich delicious unique creative standout work that's it learning how to do that that's how you create a powerful audition Advantage that'll get you brought in again and again without ever having to be friends with a casting director every actor who auditions has done this and here's what casting directors really wish you understood about it do you ever mess up in an audition okay so has every single actor who ever existed you won't get banned by a casting director for one audition screw up casting directors understand that sometimes stuff happens they don't hold that against you from that moment forward until the end of time relax breathe the best thing you can do when this happens is to understand what you could do to prevent it from happening again so you could blow them away next time and then you work on that thing whatever that is consistently remember casting directors are rooting for you if something didn't work out as planned in one audition let it go because they already did number five casting directors can tell if you're a crunchtime audition prepper in other words an actor who waits till an audition or self tape request comes in to work on the craft of auditioning crunch time audition Preppers they cram all the audition craft work that they should have been doing consistently dayto day to master their audition skills into the hours just before the audition or before the self- tape deadline then they struggle to knock it out of the park bark and they wonder why or they kick themselves when it doesn't go their way the truth is you can't cram the creative process it's not like a test in high school learning and practicing and honing and fine-tuning your audition skills consistently in between auditions is what consistently booking actors do so if you want to book more you need to create a practice of working on your audition craft consistently whether it's in a class or a group coaching or one-on-one coaching or just grabbing a set of sides and a buddy on Zoom to work out your audition stay creatively limber and you'll be ready to book when the next audition or self tape request comes which one of these five things helped you the most tell me in the comments and while you're in there tap the like button and also hit the Subscribe button I have a lot of cool videos coming your way and you don't want to miss a thing I'll see you on the next video