 I want to book more commercial auditions. So I hired a commercial acting coach and I happened to have a friend who is a commercial acting coach and he has booked a bunch of stuff. He used to teach at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco at the Studio ACT. I've been trying to book this character for a while and what it is is the deadpan character in a lot of commercials. And I wanted to tell you guys about my first experience with an acting coach during an audition because this is the first time I've ever done it. I'm going to tell you the cost, like how much it would cost you if you wanted to hire Timothy. He's also doing a commercial acting class and just tell you my experience in general. And I just did the audition so I don't know if I booked it. So I will let you guys know in a future video if I did. Regardless I learned a lot from coaching with Timothy. I can start with the pricing and like who I would advise get this in my personal experience. I am not an acting coach. I'm an actress who likes to share my experiences and just tell you about how it went for me and you can see if things are a better fit for you. Like I have done a lot of reviews on casting websites. I've used my paper backdrops and told you guys about it. My tripods, my lights, different things like that. So take this as if we're friends and I'm telling you about my experiences. Timothy Holes is $75 an hour if you want to hire him privately to help you with your commercial auditions, which I would advise you to do if you are somebody who's like intermediate or to advance acting and you've seen that maybe you keep getting called for the specific type of commercial audition and you aren't quite sure what you're doing wrong. I would suggest hiring him or taking his commercial acting class or any other coach that you trust. I'm just telling you he's a good option because I know him and I have experienced working with him as a student. So yeah $75 an hour and then he's doing a commercial acting class starting August 30th that is just under $600. You can choose for your situation what's best if you want to do private coaching or if you want to do a group class. In my experience both are really helpful. A one-on-one coaching through an audition is going to help you in an actual audition. So he might help you book an audition like help you you know actually put a great audition in or you can take an acting course with him and also learn from watching other people and get feedback but that's that's one of the most important things especially if you are a new actor to make sure to get acting experience where you're getting some feedback because you can learn a lot from reading and watching YouTube videos but doing all of these exercises on your own versus doing it in front of somebody who's going to help you improve is just really different. I have now done both getting private acting coaching and been in a group setting and you can learn different things from both and I have been acting for I want to say almost 14-ish years and I still learn stuff because it does take a lot of knowledge and work to really get in a place where you're you're set sometimes roles come to me really easy sometimes they're more hard. So you can decide which one to do if you're a beginner. I as a friend I would suggest if you're a beginner to go into a group setting something that's a little bit more affordable versus getting one-on-one coaching because one-on-one coaching is of course more expensive. In this situation with me and Timothy I wanted help with coaching for this specific type of commercial a deadpan character for a commercial audition so we worked on it quite a bit and now I'm going to be sharing some clips. I did record our session and he did allow me to share some of these so I'm going to be sharing some clips throughout me talking to you about this experience. First Timothy and I went over the sides the script. Let's just read through it together. I'll read the screen directions or and the breakdowns and then you can read the the dialogue and don't worry about we're just going to read through to read through it. Don't worry about like yeah performing yeah yeah so okay she's always going to kind of flat and dry delivery gets a little sarcastic at times female 30s african-american latinx or indian pakistani plays it cool as a contrast to the other two generally deadpan and a little sarcastic. I told him a little bit about it and he asked me questions about the character like what do we know about it because a lot of the time in commercial auditions they just give you like one sheet. Here's the thing about commercial copy which is not always that it's not always that friendly it's not always like telling you who you're saying it to it's kind of which is kind of frustrating right unless so you just have to like collect data and get the clues on make these assumptions. After Timothy helped me warm up then we actually started doing some of the lines like I started recording myself so I had my computer on the side so he could see me and then I was filming on my phone and something that I found really helpful that I feel like I used to do I don't know was that he was giving me feeding me some lines I want to make sure it's conversational and it feels like that one felt good but also like I'll just I'll just feed you some lines yeah that's a good idea so let's move on to the third stage of this meeting okay okay Erin so we're in stage four of the conversation uh yeah good even more it's coming through you don't want the smile to be coming through but it's coming through hold it back all right so Erin now to stage five of the conversation good now it's full sarcastic okay oh that's good uh hey Erin uh we're gonna move on we're gonna talk more about the venue okay yeah that's good even if I wasn't here like you could totally do this on your own right but you would need to get to that point of of focus and connection that does not that does not necessarily need another person like I you know I we need to be so good that we could like literally fall in love with the doorknob and on camera they'd be like oh I didn't realize there was a person there something my commercial acting coach Timothy Holes also helped me realize is that I don't put nearly as much work into my commercial auditions than I do into my theatrical auditions uh I I'm gonna be honest with you I don't think I've ever taken this much time for a commercial audition I I would take this much time I mean you know rehearsing it and such for a theatrical one where I have this character that I'm thinking all of these things about but when it comes to commercials I know that I tend to be like oh I know what they're looking for and like what type of character they're looking for instead of like the actual person what person are they looking for right exactly yeah like I appreciate being so like coachable and wanting to make the adjustments and like of course thank you I think we were coaching for around an hour and a half and I was like I I don't remember the last time I took this much time for a commercial audition unless it was a really long script but usually I just jump right into it because I'm like oh okay I get it I get it I get what kind of character you know what what I need to portray in this so I need to start taking more time I need to slow down maybe if I have eight auditions in one day you know say no to some so that I can really focus or I need to stop obsessing with getting it in immediately because that's not sustainable that day that I had eight auditions well some of them weren't due to like that Monday but I wanted to be one of the first people to send it an audition and now I really have to sit and think about when my audition have been so much better if I just slowed down and turned it in on Monday instead of like Thursday afternoon or Friday afternoon um so I need to find that balance but also don't procrastinate if you're interested in coaching with Timothy or any other acting coach I highly suggest doing more research and for Timothy he is having a commercial acting class our August 30th 2021 but I'm sure he'll do more in the future so if you just want to like follow him on Instagram and see when his next one is um I know he has a YouTube channel as well where you can check out different stuff that he has been in but um yeah thank you Timothy so much I learned so much from this one-on-one acting coaching session and I definitely want to do it again in the future when my budget allows because acting is expensive you have to pay for so many different things and to pay for a coach and classes it's just a lot so I have to like spread out you know whenever I do acting classes and coaching and such so I would love to do it again later on because I I know that I still need more work on that deadpan persona but thank you so much for watching and let me know if you have worked with any other acting coaches in the past if you're an acting coach and um maybe I will coach with other people too just so I can you know venture in other different and other techniques because there's so many different acting techniques and so many different coaches that approach it different ways um in different classes so yeah thank you so much for watching and at the end of every video I feature another channel I'm going to feature Timothy here and so you guys can go check him out 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 tell me something what do you post about on your channel