 If you're an actor, you might have also experienced this that in December, there's a lot less auditions and a lot less gigs because it's just not a really popular time for people to film stuff. So I decided every day until Christmas, I am doing a scene or a monologue from a Christmas movie or TV show that has a Christmas themed episode and I put it behind these doors. So now we're going to pick out whatever is in door number seven. And do I have a reader today? I don't. If it's a scene, what I've been doing is I'm recording the other lines of the other character so that I can still say mine. My routine has been that I just select the scene or monologue, I set a 15 minute timer and during those 15 minutes, that's the only time that I have to actually prepare this. I typed up most of the scenes so I am a little familiar with them because I typed them out once. But other than that, I'm trying to keep it super simple so I actually finished this. Okay, let's see what's in door number seven. I have the script here and it's the scene where they are packing in cup and comes in. It's like, Uncle Frank won't let me watch this movie and she's like, well, if it's him, it's gonna be bad. And then I just tell my husband, grow a grow tea and that's it, a nice little clip from one of my absolute favorite movies. Let me record the lines of the other characters and then set a timer to prepare this scene and we'll do a couple takes. In this scene, she's on a phone so I grabbed my prop phone and I actually ended up with three phones almost for free. This is a very old phone that AT&T was like, hey girl, this phone's not gonna work anymore. Like it's like 3G, I don't know what it is. It's an old phone. AT&T sent me a phone for free and then I cracked the screen recently so then I bought another phone. So I'm actually filming on the one that has a crack screen because I like that camera the best and it was gonna be almost as expensive to fix the screen than to get a new phone. So I just got a new phone, it's an older model so it was reasonably priced and now this is the phone that I use on a day to day basis. This is the phone that I use to film and then this is the phone that I use as a prop. If you're an actor, especially for commercials, you know you're gonna use a phone and it's nice to actually have a phone. I see a lot of people use just the cases but it can be a bit awkward especially when you're pretending to type and you're just clearly, you're just not. So let me use this cause she's on the phone while she's like packing and stuff. Let's get up and do a couple of takes. The first one I'm gonna do a mom that like obviously loves her kids but just has a lot of them so it's a little over it and then maybe I'll do one like inspired by Mexican moms and what I've experienced Mexican moms to be and probably what I will be like if I ever am a mom. Okay, that was all over the place and I still have something in my eye. Take three. You know what I've also noticed with self-tapping practice and sometimes I also notice it during my actual self-tapes that I send in is that the lighting like it like changes. Is it not doing it right now? See how it like glows and then it goes darker. I think that is less when I self-tape during the day and there's a lot of sunlight or maybe you know what it's probably a setting on my phone that I can fix. I'm gonna try and fix it for tomorrow but meanwhile, I think I can do it without the script now. What is this? Take five? I need to think, who am I talking to? Okay, let's try it again. I'm realizing also my eye line is crazy because I'm using this as my eye line and then over there. I think what I should do is do this and this maybe or opposite. I'll do this and then this. Yeah, okay. Take seven. We'll grow go tea. Huh? I skipped the lines. I jumped over all the lines. Take seven. Because I recorded the lines, I kept feeling rushed during the longer part of my line so I added a few seconds. Let's see if that helps because I keep having to restart. I think this is like take seven or something. I can guarantee you if I had a reader, it would be much better because I wouldn't feel in a hurry because other lines are about to come on but we're doing self-tape practice in whatever way we can. Okay, that one was more fun. Let me try it again. Take nine. Now I'm gonna do one where I have almost no patience and I'm gonna try and just do this in one take because at this point, I've been doing takes for 20 minutes. Let's try and just mom energy the moms that I grew up with and then the patients that I have which is like zero, especially around children. I know I just said one take but we're gonna do another one. Okay, that's it. I'm not letting myself do any more takes. Here are the best two takes that I think I took from today and I'll see you tomorrow. Kevin, I'm on the phone. When do you get back? Not till then? Hold on. If Uncle Frank says it's bad then it must be really bad. No, no, no, we're not taking the dogs. We put the dogs in the kennel for the, hey, get off the bed. Kevin, just get out of the room please. This kid. Oh, no, I didn't have time for that. Grow a goatee or something. What? Hi, Uncle Frank won't let me watch the movie. But the big kids care. Well, I can't lie. Kevin, I'm on the phone. When do you get back? Oh, you don't know? Not till then. Hold on. Kevin, if Uncle Frank says it's bad then it must be really, really bad. Okay? Hey? Oh, no, we put the dogs in the kennel. Yeah, for the holidays. Hey, get off. Get out of the room, Kevin. Why don't you? Yes, then, Nino. Do you mind if I just pick up a voltage adapter? No, I didn't have time for that. Why am I supposed to shave in front? I don't know. Grow a goatee. Get this, yes?