 Good morning. So today, I need to go find a white lab coat. And yes, it's morning, but my apartment is just very dark I need to find a white lab coat because I'm currently taking a self-tape class and We are doing a bunch of self tapes of course as part of the course and I need to play a doctor today So I need a lab coat and it is so cheap Online, but I have to film the self-tape audition as soon as possible So I'm gonna go see if I can go to an actual store because if I get it on Amazon, which it would be only $18 It'll arrive tomorrow and my goal is to send in that self-tape by tonight and not have to wait till tomorrow Because the deadline is tomorrow at 1 p.m. So I need to memorize the scene. I need to get a lab coat and then Yeah, rehearse it But if you're an actor go get a lab coat or order a lab coat You're eventually gonna need it for an audition. So go get one So this doesn't happen to you because I feel like I'm gonna waste so much time today just trying to find one It's Monday and because I've had this class. I haven't had so much time to pre-film So I'm actually going to film a video today about Carla Hall She's a casting director by the time you're watching this the video is up And I basically want to talk more about casting directors on my website on my YouTube channel because I want to learn more about Casting directors and directors and filmmakers in general. So That's what I'm going to do. So I am going to first take 15 minutes to memorize the scene because it is a pretty short scene and It'll take me about 15 minutes to memorize it and by 15 minutes I mean that I can memorize this in 15 minutes But it's not going to be word perfect yet and I'll still pause to think about wait Did I say that right? Did I say you are or you're so I'm going to assume that this is gonna take me about An hour and a half maybe two hours to memorize and really Have it in my brain absolutely perfect where I get it perfect every time So this is going to take me a while Which is why I thought it would be a good idea to start memorizing it now so that while I'm out shopping I can do a bunch of repetitions in the car and Maybe I'll even take headphones and listen to it in the store I was gonna go to a different thrift store because there's a different one That's a lot further for me, but it's huge and I thought well They should have some kind of scrub sections and in this dresser that I went It's probably the smallest one around me and I looked Through the blazers. I thought maybe if there's a white blazer. I looked through the guys White collared shirts in case they accidentally put it there and Then I even asked somebody do you guys have a medical uniform section and they're like no It's just spread out everywhere and then I was about to leave, but I saw the long sleeve section had a little bit maybe like 10 15 long sleeve white shirts for women and Then in between just the normal white shirts for women. I found a white lab coat and it's Marvella white cross and It was $5 and 29 cents with taxes and then you can round up at Goodwill and donate So I think it was $7 and I'm so happy that I found it in the first place and it is material that is not wrinkly at all Okay, I'm gonna wash it. I'm gonna Hopefully get this clean. Oh, and it's a medium which is perfect for me. I'm so excited I'm so glad I didn't have to waste so much time in Finding the lab coat since I'm already out and I didn't take that long to find this I'm gonna go to party city because it's my boyfriend's birthday on Sunday, and I want to decorate I want to decorate like Kelly Kapoor's birthday when they forget it's her birthday and then they do like a makeup birthday for her and It's the sign is like it is your birthday and the balloons are black white and brown and the streamers are white And then she has a choice between sleeping for 30 minutes or watching TV for 30 minutes So I want to decorate like that so I'm gonna go to party city city and see if they have balloons that are the right color Well, it looks like the dollar store has the white ones and the black ones and streamers So I got that so now I just need the brown balloons. I Was wrong about the lab coat by the way It was only six dollars after tax and everything and then after that I ended up going to the dollar store instead of party city because It was closer and of course, it's a lot cheaper So I got everything except for the brown balloons and I got a clipboard for a dollar So now I have an extra prop for a doctor I'm gonna go work on the video for today though and do my hair and then later When my boyfriend gets home from work We're going to film the self-tape and then I'll edit it and send it over. Let me slip into something more comfortable I'm going to change into my My doctor outfit. It's almost 10 p.m But I have been editing the other video and then I had a call that I I didn't forget about because I had a Reminder on my phone, but I had forgotten that I had to do that Anyways, so now I'm going to change and my boyfriend's going to help me read I'm a little bit nervous about this audition or this self-tape homework Which is essentially an audition. It's you know, it has the same importance But I'm nervous about it because it's a very dramatic scene And I know I would perform it better if there was an actor reading the other lines, but There's no actor that I am comfortable with coming into my home and I would love to do it in person so I'm gonna have to experiment with other readers on zoom or on the actor trade in the future for dramatic films like this But for today, we're going to do our very best that we can and I'm gonna change into a doctor outfit I'm too hyper for my own good right now. I need to get sad. This is the scene. It's sad It was a really good thing that I didn't end up going to an actual oh shoot I was thinking that it's a really good thing I found this at a thrift store because not only did it only cost six dollars including tax and everything But it's going to look more used It's not gonna look so crisp and so clean and so new it doesn't have any stains or anything distracting But oh, okay, that's just the buzz Okay, there's like a tiny the tiniest, but you can't see it. Can you? Yeah, so it's gonna look used like I'm a doctor. So that's a good thing, okay I need to get the rest of my outfit his pockets I Let's see. I moved myself tape set up a little bit more towards this corner because my bed is Right here, so the paper used to be a little bit more that way But it wouldn't allow me to do a full-body shot here So I actually moved it a little bit more towards the wall, which Doesn't let us open the door all the way But we don't need to open the door all the way we can get there anyway But um Tell me I don't look like a doctor for some reason whenever I think of a doctor I think of like clean and dainty jewelry, especially in TV shows like crazed anatomy, but I put these on and then he slipped my hair in a little bit I don't get the idea of doctors having their hair down But I see that a lot so I'm just gonna go ahead and do that today So then this way I can do a full body slate because that's what we need to do for this one So here's my entire outfit Hi, my name is Benjika Rodriguez Oh my god, I need to think about something sad You want to know something funny that's what I was thinking about before Not good enough non-verbal like like So I'll see you in a few weeks Well, that's what I just did we do that so I need to with my face be like as if I'm trying to tell you something Yeah, I feel like that's too comedic, but let's see. Let's try it. I'll see you in a few weeks Why were you making me laugh? Well, I'm trying to not be funny. I'm trying to affect you in like a escape here way So it's obviously not working Hi, it's Tuesday and I just filmed one part one of two of my homework today for my self-tape Because this one's a two-parter Yeah, so now I'm gonna put makeup on because for the second one. It's a dramatically different scene and Class is gonna start soon as well. It's 30 minutes before class. So I don't think I'll have time to Finish my makeup and do the self-tape Before class I think I'll have to wait till Later and then the second part of the homework. There's one line that somebody else is supposed to say So I do need my boyfriend to say that line for me. I have a few minutes before class. So I think I'm gonna I'm gonna film some or write some video ideas while I wait for class to start Line is I'm talking to a couple of guys over there and I say and then in the other one You're going to be my boss at the gym at the bar and you're in your tux is gonna be anything You need to stand there. I don't have any lines for this one. I just need a good eye line They tried different wait for your drinks That was the same, huh? Because okay, let me tell you what's happening. Those were like some gangster guys And you told me you're like my boss at the bar and you told me go check on them I think they're like some mafia guys and then I scare them away By saying I'm gonna take their jackets and then I come back I just finished my homework for my self-tape audition class and We did the class today and I think my scene was okay I was nervous because like I said, it was it's a dramatic scene, but it ended up being fine So I just filmed today's homework which today's homework was a lot of fun because I didn't have to spend a bunch of time memorizing it So now I'm gonna edit it and send it over good morning. It's Friday I hope and I want to continue vlogging because I I don't know what what I was doing, but I looked at a vlog from a couple of years ago when I first started my channel my channel was just about Everything whatever I felt like like doing I did it, but I always vlogged I had a weekly vlog where I talked about what I was doing acting wise and a little bit in my life in general I thought I would do that again if I don't put up a vlog on a Saturday It's because I didn't have much going on that week I'm gonna do my best to upload a vlog on Saturday if it's not a vlog It'll be something else But I thought I would share with you guys everything that I'm doing acting wise and I finally got back to tracking my auditions Because in 2020 I've been tracking my auditions since I think 2018 I made a video about creating an Excel sheet if you guys want an audition tracker I am sharing that in that video. So I have been keeping track of my auditions and in January I did one two three eight. I did eight auditions So I wanted to tell you guys how that went which ones I got booked in which ones I didn't so I only had in eight auditions Which is pretty low, but still I mean it feels like it's ramping up again acting It feels like it's starting to get a little bit more active and I'm starting to finally submit myself again So in January I got five auditions from my agency in San Francisco Marlendale talent Three of them were voiced over one of them was internal usage and one of them was for a commercial Audition and I did not book any of them unfortunately two of them were NDAs, but the other ones usually tech for commercials in San Francisco some kind of tech like LinkedIn or Facebook or Salesforce is really popular of course I've auditioned for Salesforce so many times and then on Instagram Somebody reached out to me and I talked about it in the video before this but in Instagram Somebody reached out to me about a short film They're a horror film that they're making and I actually did a live audition for that one Well a video a live video audition for that one everything else was self-taped and I got a callback for that so they sent me the script and they're asked me to Read it and see what I think about the role And so I should be hearing back from them today Friday And then I got one from Facebook for another short film I'm a part of a bunch of different Facebook groups and in one of them. They were like we have this film. It's filming here You know send your headshot resume links to this email and I did and I send in the self-tape I didn't book that either the only thing that I got a callback slash booked Was that the other short film? I'm not sure if I've booked it yet, but based off of the email We just have to talk about the role and if I'm able to do what they want me to do Then we'll do it because I think I'm supposed to play an instrument and then Of course the video I made about how to be on Netflix and the three different ways I auditioned for him if I'd season 2 through cast it talent so this month Didn't do very many self-submissions I just did those three through Instagram Facebook and cast it talent and then my agency got me the other five auditions and Yeah, I didn't I essentially didn't book anything right because I don't even know about that short film yet So I still have to hear about that, but I'm I'm okay with it. Honestly, I'm not upset I'm enjoying myself making YouTube videos and doing these auditions and also this week I've been doing that self-tape class which tomorrow is the last day of that class and I need to do my last assignment today It's pretty simple, but I do need a reader for that. It has the other person has maybe three lines So I'm gonna wait until My boyfriend's home so you can help me out with that, but After that, that's it the the self-tape class has been really helpful in my vlogs I hope to share with you what I'm up to and also it'll give me a chance to Just talk because I'm just home at the first Saturday of every month I'll share with you all of the auditions that I got and where I got them from If it's something really exciting, of course that you can be a part of I'll of course share the links with you to go And audition for that and I'll make also be making all the other videos on Mondays and Thursdays but for now I wanted to Vlog and they might not come every Saturday like I said because I might not have much to share with you But I'll still have a video on Saturdays. Thank you so much for watching today I wanted to feature a subscriber of mine because I Look through my subscribers usually to feature somebody and I saw that she was subscribed to me Super talented you guys need to go check out her channel She has done a really fun web series through the pandemic And she also recently shared a video on how to create your own work how she created her own work So you guys should go check out UBT. I also became a patreon of hers So go check out her channel and if you would like to be featured on my next video Make sure you're subscribed like this video and leave me a comment