 I'm taking a break from my day job, which is a little scary, but with all of this time I want to create an actor routine and within that I want to get really good at memorizing, practice acting every day, and submit to LA agencies because I've been dropping the ball on that. I still don't have an LA agent so let's make it happen. It's 9 a.m. right now and I've noticed that my brain really likes to memorize in the morning. I try to memorize in the evening, I'm just distracted by so many thoughts, but in the morning my brain is able to focus so that's what we're going to do first. We are going to memorize for 30 minutes. My lines for the scene I'm memorizing right now are pretty short so what I like to do is write them out three times and then go line by line and memorize the first one and then the first and second one and so on and I mark how long it took me to memorize that, like how long did it take me for me to be able to go from top to bottom at least three times. I have been doing this memorizing practice for three days in a row and just having the consistency I can already tell that my brain is like so much more calm and I'm able to memorize quicker. I memorized this much in 15 minutes. This is a habit that I know works. I've done it before and I need to keep so I can get extremely good at memorizing like 10 pages. So now I'm going to put a timer for one hour and I'm going to research LA agents. Right now I have a spreadsheet where I'm keeping a bunch of information from each agency. Some notes if there's an actor that I have worked with before or is my friend that is represented by that agency and I'm primarily looking on IMDB Pro and their website to see how they prefer for actors to submit to be represented by them. Okay now let's get some actual acting practice in and how I'm doing that is by either doing a scene with somebody like a friend or going on an app and being a reader or having somebody be a reader for me. One that I know of that is free is actor trade. I'm just going to hop onto the app and then be a reader for whatever anybody needs me for and I find that this is fun because you get to find out what other people are auditioning for, rehearsing for and you get to look at scripts that are being used right now. No problem, bye. Just finished being a reader on actor trade and I have to say that everybody there is so nice. I helped two people today and they were just really grateful. One of them was a little bit longer like a rehearsal and then the other one was a quick self-tape for a commercial but I definitely recommend it as a great way to practice acting. Okay, let's film this practice scene on Customer Laney. It's 1pm now so I want to take a break, go on a walk, eat some lunch and then in the afternoon chung from 2 to 5 I wanted to dedicate that on whatever else I need to work on so YouTube, other self-tape auditions and then creating any of my own work. Right now I'm actually working on a short film called Pizza Monster so Javi, the writer, creator of the short is coming over and we're going to be working on that so I'll see you guys after lunch. This gives me like some ESPN reporting vibes right here, you know? Reporting directly from the pizza store. Pizza headquarters, we out here. Hi, I'm Javi, creator, writer of Pizza Monster. And we also have another little extra creative thing for you. You can enter this monologue competition because Javi wrote a monologue. It's called Revenge Pizza and it's inspired by Day in the Life of a Pizza Monster. So to enter this monologue competition you're going to subscribe to my channel, go follow Pizza Monster on Instagram and then the link is in the description to fill out the form and get the script and everything but that is due by July 24th so you're going to be able to practice your memorizing, you're going to be able to practice your self-tape and if you want feedback, I'm also going to be giving you feedback. As fellow actors, I'm not an acting coach but if you want feedback on your self-tape setup, on your monologue itself, I really, really encourage you to do this because it's a great opportunity to practice and to get a little bit of feedback and if you've never done a self-tape audition before, I'm going to give you like super quick tips. First of all, make sure that you're filming horizontally, try and memorize it best you can. With time you will get better at memorizing. Look around your home and see if there's a blank wall or if there's stuff on it see if you can take it down easily so that you can have a blank wall as your backdrop and then for lighting, just make sure that we see you well if you have natural, indirect sunlight that's going to be the best and of course have fun because if you're an actor you're going to be doing self-tape auditions all of the time so you need to learn to just enjoy it, have fun, play around with it. The winner will get a ticket to the Pizza Monster Premier Party and $25 gift card to their favorite pizza spot. So here's a little preview into that monologue. You know what kind of pizza this is? Revenge pizza. Yep, I'm going to tell you why. Today was the last day of work, right? So the principal brought a ton of pizza for the students and you know it's a lot because kids were getting doubles. It's not like they finished and they got second. No, they're getting two at a time. Doubles. We're going to get back to work on Pizza Monster so I'll see you guys later. I'm back home now and it's dinner time so I'm going to go get some dinner and skate but I just wanted to also say that if you are an actor looking to be more productive, dedicate more time to auditioning, memorizing, whatever. Let me know in the comments and we can keep each other accountable. Check in with each other every Saturday during my weekly vlogs and we can celebrate the things we did and then plan for next week what we can do better. At the end of every video I also feature another channel and today I'm going to feature bless stress because you can go check out Javi's work over there as well as work that we have done together and if you're brand new to acting, here's a video on five acting exercises that you can do at home.