Acting 101 Audition Horror Stories | JND
Real audition scams and unsafe locations from a working actor, and the specific questions that would have caught each...
Audition Videos for Actors
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Where The $&#* Am I?
How to build the specific physical world of an audition scene so your eye lines, reactions and body come from the room...
Stop Writing on Your Script
Why highlighting and margin notes tie you to the page, and how to do the same beat work out loud instead.
The Best Time For Actors To Submit To Casting Sites
How to work out when breakdowns land on your casting sites, and a three-times-a-day schedule for submitting inside 12...
DON'T do these things at an AUDITION! Noooooo!
A run of audition don'ts, from perfume and props to handshakes, chatty small talk and how early is too early.
Interruption and Conflict
A short, practical method for breaking down an audition scene by finding where you were headed, what interrupted you...
Should I Improvise in an Audition?
When adding your own lines to an audition helps and when it costs you the role, told through two recurring TV bookings.
How to Frame a Self-Tape
What close-up, medium and standard framing actually mean for a self-tape, and how to adjust light and distance when you...
The Best Memorization Tool
Why sleeping on fully drilled lines is the fastest route to effortless recall, and the speed-run test that tells you...
LIVE Video Broadcast With LA Acting Image Guru - Sam Christensen!
Casting director turned image coach Sam Christensen on decoding the note "just be yourself," using the slate, and...
The Business: Prepping for Pilot Season - Audition Technique
Four coaches who disagree with each other about memorizing, nerves and preparation, and the places they all land in the...
Henry Thomas audition för E.T. "Ok kid, you got the job".
Henry Thomas booked Elliott on an improvised scene with no script. What the recording actually shows about playing one...
Casting Director Marci Liroff on Filmnut
Marci Liroff on booking the room instead of the part, why the breakdown is cliff notes, and what she thinks of paid...
What NOT to do on an audition - Filmnut
A casting director on the ways well trained actors lose the room before they have read a line.
How Seinfeld Experience Influenced Actor Ken Davitian's Role in Borat, all Revealed on Filmnut
Ken Davitian on booking Borat by convincing the room he had no business being there.
How to Memorize Lines
Six practical tricks for getting lines down, including two that have nothing to do with repetition.