 Having production know you a little bit about your personality Having that advantage. I think is really important I believe is really important because people want to work with people that they trust and that they're excited to have on set But how do you have production know who you are before auditioning for them? Like how do you even meet these people industry events? So let's go to some mixers together Let's go to this aura casting event. I've talked about aura before It's an online casting company 100% online if you're an actor in the US go ahead and submit yourself You just put your photos your information if you do have a rep They will send their information to them when they have casting calls If not, they'll send them directly to you You can do a self-tape and then you can get bugged as far as I know mostly in California although I have seen some stuff in Colorado for them. Let's go to this aura casting event Here so I am doing a raffle. I'm doing two fifty three inch paper backdrops just like this one You all have to do subscribe to my channel, and then I'm going to be giving away two Later today This could be a bunch of entertainment I'm after a YouTube content creator and today I'm here with Amity Taylor And I'm just showing you guys who I am. I'm an actor and I like to share about myself on YouTube And how to do self-tape auditions and actually just my experience as an actor So my self-tape audition set up is over there today If you're busy already, you pay attention now because now's the time And sure, yeah, and I feel like not enough people saw it yet So I'm doing a contact Savage Universal which is who provided the backdrops and asked them for one more So if you haven't Entered come back after and I'm gonna have you like enter the rest of you I emailed Savage I haven't heard back. So I'm pretty sure they're gonna say yes, but if they say no Guess who's gonna use her credit card So let's choose a winner for the third paper backdrop. Look at all the people that enter. Whoa, okay I did take out already the two people that won at the event, but I'm doing a third one because I wanted to Oh, this one's blank No way Lorena Flores. Um, she is a subscriber. So maybe you aren't watching this Lorena She told me her last name was Flores and I was like, wait, you know my last name is Flores too So I was like we're cousins. So my cousin won this. We're not actual cousins Lorena DM me Give me actually I'll DM you because I just started following you on instagram too. You won I'm gonna send you this video and you better watch this. I'm not gonna tell you you won I'm just gonna send you this video and once you watch it, you're gonna know you won But you on a 53 inch paper backdrop So what you're gonna do Is you're gonna send me your email and then I'm gonna put you in touch with Savage and you can choose Whatever 53 inch paper backdrop you want whatever color or I'm just gonna use my credit card and I'll send it to you via amazon Maybe it's not the case But is it because like do they have these vendors in part to warm people up? You know, if you're coming by yourself and you don't really know who to talk to Somebody easy to approach is somebody who's selling things Warm up conversations with the vendors first and then you can Continue and talk to more people and you can be like, hey, did you visit the candle place? They had some pretty cool names on their candles Conversation starters. Is that why there's funders networking wise for me? I met so many actors A lot of people actually came up to my booth like my self-tape setup thinking it was for photos And they were asking me like, oh, could I take a photo here? You know, of course I could but I would also tell them like, oh, this is actually my self-tape audition setup I'm an actor and I would ask them what they use for their backdrops A few of them said the wall or that they used a pop-up one Or I showed them how a full body shot would look like with a seamless paper Because it's nice and clean. You don't see the edges of the pop-up backdrop or anything I want to say I met around 30 actors. I only filmed a portion of The people that I actually met I said hello to an owner of a production company that I've worked with before He's also director the DP for that production company I met another owner two more owners of production companies one in Sacramento and one in the bay area I met a few agents. One of them was Dina from Sacramento who also reps people in the bay area 350 people it really felt like so many more But because there were vendors and circus performers There's a dj really good music Photo booths like there were so many things where everybody was like walking around So it's not like you stayed in the same circle at least I didn't see that You really got to move around and talk to people and people were introducing people and throughout the event People would just ask me like hey, do you know this or that or when I said hello to my friend who owns a production company I was like, do you want to meet some actors or like sure? So I like grabbed my friend Justin and I was like Justin meet max and you know just like I just the energy was really good. And I think it's all because of taylor and emily They have such a friendly open energy Sometimes casting directors can get very Overwhelmed and overworked or agents But I think taylor and emily do a really good job of keeping a positive Light energy and this event I believe was definitely a success If you were at the event, please leave me a comment Tell me that you're here because I was so excited to meet some people that actually watch my videos Thank you so much to aura. Please go check them out on instagram and you can submit yourself On their website and thank you so much to savage universal for gifting these paper backdrops Again, not sponsored at all There's a lot more mixers in december that i'm going to go to la and san francisco area So let me know if you know of any that I should go to that you enjoy Tell me what your questions are around mixers I'm not an expert, but I can tell you my experience as somebody who actually enjoys going to these things I went to another huge mixer in arizona this summer. It's this one right here with casting director bella hybs Highly recommend checking her out too. She gives out a lot of really helpful information