 I'm logging on right now to a callback for an agency that represents in San Francisco and LA, particularly the LA location. I told you guys a little bit about it last week, but I'm gonna do a really quick 10-minute Zoom call. They said they had some questions, and I do too. Let's see how it goes. Yes, Benjika. As far as LA, I'm really hoping for more TV. I'm really striving for co-star roles this year. I'm non-union, yeah. The meeting just ended, and I wasn't really able to ask any questions, and I had questions about how long they've been representing people in LA. I did ask two questions, and they pretty much said, look on our website, otherwise that's likely to, that's going to be covered at our orientation meeting, but there's just some other really specific things that I want to know about the agency before I go ahead and go with them. They said they would send me an email either way, whether they want to offer me representation or not. I feel like it's been a while since I've worn not makeup. That's not true. I often wear no makeup in my vlog. You know, sometimes you just feel really like ugly, and then sometimes you feel really attractive. You just gotta just look at yourself without any grooming sometimes. I didn't really get to talk about my interview with the agency yesterday because I had my day job after, and I was in a hurry. So basically, I have to wait for them to let me know if they want to offer me to be represented by them, but the meeting did not go like I thought. It was 10 minutes, and they had most of their team there because there were some people missing from the people that they have on their website. They asked me questions that they had already asked me in the questionnaire, like it's a know me questionnaire that they gave us. Just confirming those things. Like in my head, I was like, okay, 10 minutes. I'm sure they're gonna leave half of it for me to ask questions, because this is a conversation. It's like a meeting. They were really, really nice. They seemed really fun and enthusiastic and just a nice people. So at the end, I was like, hey, I actually did have some questions for you guys. And she was like, oh, we're gonna cover everything in the intro meeting. So it was like, okay, but some of these questions that I had, I need to know the answers to before I accept. Therefore, I wouldn't even get to the meeting if some of the answers to these questions weren't what I was looking for. So I was like, okay, can I email you some questions if I don't find the information on your website? Cause they also said the contract length will be on the website and it wasn't. It was just a really short, frequently asked questions on their website. So it just seems to me, like they represent a lot of new talent. Like people who are just starting out, people who have never had agents before. I mean, I do understand that they don't only hire green talent and like newer talent, but it just seems like that's what they're used to in earlier interviews. So I sent them an email. And actually I'll show you guys the email that I sent them with all of my questions because like different agencies will request different things. So I sent them that email this morning and let's see if they get back to me. So I wanted to update you on what happened with that agency because next week I'll probably just forget and move on to a bunch of other things. But before I start, I do want to like, is it weird that I'm not saying the name of the agencies? Tell me if you think it's weird. I just want to be able to openly, really talk about my experience. And of course I don't ever mean to be disrespectful or rude. And I hope I'm not coming across that way. If I ever am, please tell me because I'm really just trying to be as honest as possible and give you my experience and tell you what's going on with how I'm experiencing these things. So I sent them the email that morning and then I didn't hear back about those answers. So then they emailed me saying they weren't interested in signing me, which is absolutely fine. That's how these things work. Not everybody's going to want to sign you. And they didn't answer all of the questions, which I think is good. So they're not wasting their time telling me all of the information since I'm not even going to sign with them. All of those questions, I really, those were really important to me. So if they had said we want to sign with you, the intro session meeting is this day, I would say, okay, but before that meeting, I need these answers because I want to make sure that you're the right agency for me. And I want to keep really good relationships with all of these people because I just really like people and I like being friends. So of course I just want to keep a good relationship with everybody. So I am still looking for LA representations. So if you got any recommendations, let me know. It's Friday right now. I'm about to film the audition that I, that's in Spanish that I held off for. And oh my gosh, it's Friday. It's due tomorrow evening, like five o'clock. And usually I try to turn them in a lot earlier than this, but I had my day job. I did film it pretty much immediately after I got it, but it just was not nearly as good as I know it can be. I was really tired. And then the last couple of days, I've had way too much to do to be able to take time to do my makeup and get all this stuff ready. And I was able to put my big backdrop up. So it's gonna be blue on blue. I think it'll be fine though once I get the lighting right. I'm trying to get not shiny right now, but I just went over the lines and I have the instructions right here on my laptop. So I can refer to it in case I forget like the order or something. But for the specific casting company, they ask us to do the slate like this in the instructions. It literally says, come close up to your neck and head. So I just have to get the lighting right for this close up, but against the blue. So I need to fix a couple of things. Getting this shadow right here. And I'm also going to be using my teleprompter on my phone, which is really okay for this because the job itself is to use a teleprompter. So let me take this off. And then I know they wanted me to use my hands a lot last time. So I'm gonna do that again. Let me watch this back. I feel like something is a little bit off. Take one. Whoops. Esto no es una señal buena, positiva. Okay. I think I got it. They want two takes. The first take needs to be friendly, like you're talking to a friend. And then the second take needs to be more educational and a little bit more serious, confident. I was able to do them pretty fast, I think, because I've practiced them a bit and I recorded them a million times the other day. Let me watch them really quick and see what I think. Okay, I'm gonna do the friendly one one more time because there was like a word that I, that I just, the rhythm was funny. It did not seem natural. El algorismo, los alios. Darn. Lord have mercy. I got it. I think I got it. Now let's do the full body shot. Since I never know where the cheeseboard is, I just put that right in the middle in the front. I'm gonna put some shoes on. I'm gonna have to cut that off. Lost a few feet, but it's okay. Cause look, it was brand new. As in, I haven't cut any of it off. I finally finished and I need to go edit this. And then when I'm done with this, I'm actually gonna be spending this weekend with my family. So I'm really excited for that cause I haven't seen my side of the family since Thanksgiving, but it is the first Saturday of the month. So I need to give you a recap of all of the auditions that I did for January. So here you go. I'm gonna show you a little clip of each audition so you can see what I wore. And then I'm gonna put a description of if it was commercial theatrical what. And of course I use my audition tracker. You need to be keeping track of your auditions even if you're just starting out. So you can learn about what's going good and what's not going so good. And you can book more auditions. Trust me, you will be grateful that you have all of this information in years to come. So check out this video to see how I created my audition tracker.