 I'm doing self-tape practice every day until Christmas because in December, historically, I don't get a lot of self-tape audition requests or acting jobs, but I still wanna do some practice. Do I have 24 scripts yet? I still don't. I spent a good amount of time today on my scripts and I have one, two, 11 scripts. And I haven't printed them out yet, but I'm just hoping that either one of the monologues or one of the easy scenes is indoor number two. Okay, let's see what's indoor number two. A Bride for Christmas. I don't have this printed out, but in my 15 minutes, I know that I can memorize it because it is pretty short. This is how long that scene is. And so as I'm playing with it and practicing it, I'm pretty sure I can memorize it. The only problem is that I don't have a reader. I just got a really good idea. What I've been doing is scrolling through the movies if I've never seen it and then being like, okay, this seems like a good scene to do self-tape practice in. So I don't recommend this if you're an actor and you're actually gonna send in the self-tape, but I'm going to record the actual movie and then I'm gonna edit it so that the spacing in between each line is the pace that I wanna do it at. And so I'm not gonna have a reader here with me. I'm not gonna have a reader online. I'm going to record it on my phone. What do you think of Christmas decor? I think this is gonna work. What I'm gonna do next is edit this audio so that I can actually rehearse it and then I'm gonna set a 15 minute timer and I'm gonna be able to prep for this self-tape for 15 minutes. And as soon as the timer's over, I'll do a few takes of it. I like how my plan was to make this really simple and not even try to memorize it, but now because I don't have the scripts printed, I'm having to memorize it in order to do this, but I think I got it. Oh my gosh, I only have 10 minutes and 31 seconds left. I'm gonna try and see how I can play around with this now what comes to me first, and it is to me a very realistic thing is that this is extremely unprofessional. Here we go. She drills pressure to go out to dinner with him so she can finally finish this project and get paid. And then on the other hand, what I can do is start realizing that I can be myself around him and maybe I haven't heard Christmas music for a while because I'm always working. Try those two. Okay, so one is annoyed and then maybe I'm gonna like him. You know what? I'm gonna like him in both because in a Hallmark movie, the business girl's gonna fall in love with the small town guy, right? Two minutes and 45 seconds left to play with it. So let's start getting up and do it over here. Sound, I have always had a thing for Christmas carols. Oh my God, that scared me. Timer is up. It is time to do my takes. Let's do the sweet one first. I don't know. Let's do the sweet one first. Let's do the sweet one first. Okay, let's do one more take. I'm gonna look through the scenes now and I'll show you which ones I think are the best out of the takes that I took. I roughly took maybe like six or seven takes this time. A few of those I did have to restart because I recorded it and sometimes my pace would be slower or faster. So it's just be like, oh darn, I made it awkward. So I need to redo it. So definitely a live person, whether it's on Zoom or in person is a lot better. But I hope I can have one of my friends come tomorrow to help me be a reader. So here's the best take of each one. Is there a Christmas or something like that? Mm-hmm. What do you think of Christmas decor? I mean, from a design perspective. Oh. I think it's corny and over the top for the most part. But I don't know. I think when it's done right, I actually like Christmas time but it's my favorite for it. It's actually the music. Yeah. As corny as it may sound, I've always had a thing for Christmas carols. Is that funny to you? Mm-hmm. What do you think of Christmas decor? I mean, from a design perspective? I think it's corny and over the top for the most part. But I don't know. I think when it's done right, I actually like Christmas time but it's not the decor that I, that's my favorite. I like the music. Yeah. As corny as it may sound, I've always had a thing for Christmas carols. Is that funny to you?