 Every first Saturday of the month, I give you an audition recap so that you can see where I get my auditions and then maybe you'll be able to also do it the same way. And I am based out of San Francisco and LA. So if you're somewhere else, it might not be the same, but at least you know somebody is actually using these casting websites. This month, I got 14 auditions. Usually for my audition recaps, I just tell you, these are the auditions that I did. Maybe I show you a little clip, but I thought it would be fun to actually look at some of the full things. Some of these are pretty boring and very, very basic, so we'll only watch a couple of seconds. I had 14 auditions this month and nine of them were self-tapes like this. Out of the 14 auditions I did this month, eight were commercial auditions. One was a voiceover audition. One was a UGC, which is user-generated content. One was an industrial. I love doing student projects if I'm not already booked on something because it's essentially me going back into class and also being able to teach new directors and writers how to work with actors. And yes, I do get paid for those student projects. I did have a Zoom audition and that was for a student project. I did not book that one, but I did get two direct bookings for that university becasting director has just hired me a bunch of times because she likes the way I act and the way I work with students. But let's stop being so boring and just talking to you here and let's start judging some of my auditions. This first audition was for Christmas commercial and I know it was for a car commercial and I have not seen this since I turned it in on October 2nd. OK, the directions were that I got into a car and I think one of the scenes is I'm waiting for my husband and then the other one is we're singing Christmas songs and I do remember I was singing and I was very excited and happy to be singing this. Oh, in that part, I'm reacting to my son clicking on the center console to put like the location, the North Pole or something like that. Hola, Felicia de los Reyes. Hi, my name is Belgica Rodriguez and I do have a driver's license. For the full body shot, I did do it vertically because I just have to. If I was to do it horizontally, like I'm filming right now, you would see so much other junk and I would probably have to leave my apartment in order to get like a clean shot like that. Maybe do it outside. I've never heard somebody say, oh, my God, please don't send me that again. A vertical shot of just your full body shot. I thought that audition was fine. It was for a non speaking role. They just wanted us to speak. They wanted to see what we actually look like when we're talking and singing and interacting instead of having to pantomime singing like. That was me singing. I want to wish you a Merry Christmas, which I could not resist. And I did sing it along with myself. So that was for a mom, non speaking role for a car commercial. This next one is a Samsung commercial and it was also for a mom. I audition a lot for a mom. I do not feel like a mom because I am not a mom. But this was also a Christmas commercial, which is why I put on this sweater. I think this is just the most holiday sweater I own. Even though I love Christmas, this is just what I would wear to a Christmas party without being like ugly Christmas sweater. So it looks like I start with the sleep first. OK, I'm going to fast forward this part because the directions were very specific and they said, take a couple of seconds before you say anything so we can just see your face. And then also give us five seconds of your hands. So I tried to count in my head and then, of course, a full body shot vertical. Oh, I'm not worried either. He's a good boy. But maybe I should just call and check in still ringing. Oh, hi, honey. I must have dialed by accident. Weird. So how's everything? I do not love this audition. I think my performance was I should have taken a little bit more time. But you can see in the sides of the shot, it's my wall is exposed. And that's because I couldn't get a shot with me texting and it being really close up so that you wouldn't see the sides. And this is before I had my wider 86 inch and thunder gray, which I thought this blue was really cute and gave a touch of Christmas season because of like that blue ice that is in ice rinks. But that doesn't really matter. What really matters is my performance and my performance here was because I was supposed to be a worried mom checking in on a babysitter and my kid. And I just I don't love it. This one is a political audition. This does not represent how I voted, but I was on hold for this project and then eventually released. But this was an audition through my agency and it was through or a casting, which is an online based casting office. And they also have an event coming up that I'm going to be at. And they ended up casting me later this month. I care about my children's health and I care about the environment. So let's prevent wildfires, cut emissions and clean our air. I'm voting yes on 30. Hi, I'm Veljika Rodriguez, 5'10 with MDT agency. I thought this one was pretty good. There was a little white thing in my hair that maybe I should have done my slate again, but it's okay. It's not a deal breaker. What's really important, obviously, is your acting and how I feel about it. And I think it's a good idea to do that. And I think it's a good idea to do that. And I think it's a good idea to do that. And I think it's a good idea to do that. And I think it's a good idea to do that. I think it's a good idea to do that. And I think it's a good idea to do that. I just wanted to say that I was a reallyה in my home and I was not in a super fun acting. And how I prepared for this one was watch a bunch of prop, whatever number, real commercials, and in some of them, the people just seem so fake. Like it's really scripted. And then for some of them, they seem natural. And so I was trying to do as natural acting as I could similar to the commercials that I saw. with the mother. Oh my gosh. My mom. Another one from my agency and this one is for a bank. It's a bank commercial. Hi, my name is Belki Karol. I don't do origami but I am a very very crafty person and these are the couple of things that I am highly proficient at and it is knitting and something I'm working on right now for myself is a sewing project because first time out of the continent. Tips from my wallet for your wallet. Let's go baby. Let's go baby. So awkward. I hate saying let's go baby. This is so bad. I don't even want to show you but I am cutting this down a bit because this audition was a total of two minutes and 16 seconds and that last take I thought it was so funny. I just left it blurry because it was just like somebody who's not enthusiastic at all and was like yeah let's go baby you know so the fact that it was out of focus I thought was funny. I think this audition was fine at the beginning. They did want somebody who either made origami or something else with their hands so watching these back and of course just like editing and stuff I noticed that I say some words really funny or like air and in one of the auditions I said air funny and in this one I said something else a little funny but I'm just like I need to maybe do more of a warm up before I start filming these and really articulate all my words. Here's another one from my agency and I did not get on hold or booked but I do remember that they sent me basically a callback because they asked me to do the audition again but in Spanish because they did like the English one and they were like hmm we might be able to use you for both the English and the Spanish. This one was for an industrial and for any of these slates that you see I do them exactly as they have requested me to and takes issues like this very seriously. Yeah I thought this audition was fine. I had my fiance be my reader and I'm gonna cut out a lot of it just because this is an industrial and I don't want to expose their script. None of these are NDA by the way. This one is a hair audition. It's for a commercial for hair products and I got this from casting networks and let's take a look. I didn't have a tube top so I used a scarf. A lot of people do that. Hi my name is Beljika Rodriguez and an unexpected fact about me is that all of this beautiful long hair is going to get chopped. I'm getting married and I do want this long beautiful hair for the wedding for the photos to see what I can do with it and have fun but right after I'm going to do a bob because I've had it before. Okay I'm gonna fast forward this audition because they did give me a limit of three minutes and I sent them an audition that was exactly three minutes but it's just too long to watch right now and then they gave me some actions to do as well. I do love this product. It gives me so much volume. I am not wearing it right now but I only use it for like auditions or filming jobs because it is expensive. Did not get booked for this. I don't know why because I absolutely f***ing love my hair right now. I'm not the kind of person who spends a bunch of money. Okay I wasn't the kind of person who spent that much money on their hair but I recently got this haircut and I absolutely love it. The stylist is amazing but by far the most expensive haircut I've ever had and then the hair products that she recommended. I went ahead and bought because I just really loved the way she styled my hair and I do love the products that I bought. They're just really expensive so how many times have I said expensive? They're very costly so I use them carefully. This was a UGC which is user generated content. It's basically when you film some content at home and sell it to them I try to be careful about these. I'll tell you more about it in the future because I'm making like a video about it. It's been so hard to eat healthy lately and the cooking takes so much time not to mention the cleaning that comes after. My doctor recommended the Mediterranean diet and it was totally overwhelming at first. I thought the suggestion was fine you can hear some typing in the background as well as a big fan outside of the window but it's UGC so maybe I could have done it a little bit better. I didn't get hired for this. These lines or lines that they gave me they also gave me the note of be flexible with it be as natural as you can so that was my attempt at that and they did get tell me to do it vertically which is why it is vertical. This one is another one from my agency or almost done. Something that I would do if I knew I could not fail is have kids because that sounds like the most difficult thing that you could ever do. I'm very afraid of not being a good enough parent or not taking care of them properly giving them too much and then they become spoiled people so that's what I would do because in my life I'm pretty adventurous. I go for things that I really want without being too afraid of failing and that's the one thing that I truly would do if I knew I would be a good parent. I would have kids maybe two or four. I forgot about this one. I feel super vulnerable for saying that and I'm usually okay with being vulnerable but that makes me feel really uncomfortable. I didn't book that one and I'm realizing now that I'm watching these that I got a lot of like personality auditions of just like talk and be yourself. This is the job that I booked and I did show this audition in my last vlog last week and I took you guys through the whole thing so if you haven't watched that you can go and do that but I took it from getting a notification that I was cast and then every little thing I did replying to specific emails sending in photos on set I showed it all so we can watch some of this but this is um or we'll go ahead and just watch the entire thing. This audition booked me a commercial. The directions for this by the way is that you have a broken ankle you're in bed and then that you see and then you see that your daughter brought you breakfast in bed for the first time. Again mom did I audition for anything that wasn't a mom? Thank you. Hi my name is Benjika Rodriguez. I wanted them to see my um like my figure and since I have PJs on I was like let me do a different outfit that maybe is like mom at work or something um so that's why I put this full body shot in there but I thought it was pretty good. There was a little bit of background noise but it wasn't you know terrible it's just something that I can improve in the future by maybe using a better mic even though I was already using a mic I can maybe use a better one um but aside from booking that one I did have a direct booking for two student projects so I booked a total of three auditions and there's the fan. 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