 Today, I wanted to open up a way that you can practice self-tape auditions, because if you guys didn't see, I recently took a self-tape audition workshop with Ranjeev from the Meisner Center in Burbank, and it just brought up a lot of ideas for me and ways that I could help other people. And the biggest way that I know I could help other people is by helping you practice. So even if you don't get feedback from anybody else, just giving you a task so that you can practice, because I can tell you just go and practice in your room, choose a random monologue from online, or a random question online, and just film this self-tape. You're not going to go do it because nobody's giving you specific instructions. Some of you might, you know, be practicing this already. Some of you guys might actually do this without needing this. But I thought it would be fun for me to do this as a practice for you. So I don't know how many people are going to enter, but just in case, I'm going to put a deadline to when I'm going to give you feedback. And I want to give you the disclaimer that I am not a professional acting coach. I'm not an acting coach, period. But let's treat this as if you were my friend in real life. And if you are my friend in real life, feel free to send it in as well. But when somebody, let's say my best friend Jasmine, let's say she has an audition, and she asked me to take a look at something, I am of course going to give her genuine feedback. And I'll tell her, you know, oh, maybe if you, you know, did this differently during this part, or when I was watching yourself tape, it seemed like you were thinking about something else for a second, maybe try that again, but make sure you're really connected in that moment. Technically, you know, if she has like a bunch of space above her, or she's framed weird, her lighting sound, I'm going to give you feedback as if you were my friend, not as a professional. So you can take this advice if you want, or you cannot if you don't want to, I just want to give you a way that you can practice a self tape. This one, I'm going to make really easy because it's not going to be something that you're going to quote unquote perform, you're not going to have to memorize anything. So I want you to treat this as if it was a real audition so that you can actually practice for what an audition might look like a self tape audition. Not all auditions are the same. In most auditions, they will send you a very specific set of instructions. And I'm going to tell you which ones, what are the instructions for this video. And I'm also going to put them in the description. And I'm going to put my playlist on self tapes, because I do have a playlist that with this video will be 25 video songs. So there's just there's so many videos on that playlist, because there's a lot that goes into self tapes. But once you really practice and you have it down, and you have a setup that you can just, you know, go and turn on the lights and put your phone where it's supposed to go your camera, it's really easy to do once you have a setup and once you have practice, as far as the technical side, that gets so easy. Then what you focus most of your time on is the actual text, what you're actually auditioning for with. So for this one, I'm going to give feedback to the first 25 people and they have to be turned in by February 17th, 2021. If I receive anything after that, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be able to reply. Just because I want this to be for this video, I want to give you feedback around this time, because I don't know if I have a bunch of auditions that come up, or if I have, you know, if I'm busy, I don't want to have you think that I am going to give you feedback. But with these videos, I hope that I am helping you and that you are learning through these videos and there are going to be more opportunities in the future. I'm working on a really fun collaboration with a subscriber of mine that is now, you know, my online friend and I'm really excited to bring that to you guys soon. But this is going to be a practice of self tapes. So for this audition, it has to be 90 seconds or less. And I want you to start by slating in a full body shot so that you can learn how to do a full body shot. And I want you to say your name, first and last name and the city or country that you're from in case you're not comfortable with the city, you can just say the country that you're from. And then after that, you're going to answer two different questions. What is your favorite non-alcoholic beverage and why? And of course for the section where you are telling me what your favorite non-alcoholic drink is and why you want it to be horizontal like this, because this is how self tape auditions are shot unless otherwise noted. So for the practice audition, it is very, very simple. You're not going to have to memorize anything. This is something that you would get if for some reason a set wants to get to know your personality. Very, very likely this would be something that you would get for a commercial audition. I'm just going to give you the tiniest bit of acting feedback, but mostly I'm going to give you feedback on your setup. How's your sound, your the lighting, the framing, that kind of thing. So in hopes that you can improve the technical side of your self tape audition and be able to more successfully do future auditions. In case you've never done a self tape audition, I wanted to give you a quick description and show you what it should look like in general. So starting off with the slate, I did ask for a full body slate. So this is going to be vertical because it's pretty hard to get a good full body shot horizontally, especially because you're filming this on home at home. And I wanted you to practice full body shots because they can be tricky if the camera is at a weird angle, your body will be distorted and you want to give the best representation of what your body actually looks like when you are submitting an audition. And I do have a whole video on full body slates. If you want to see that, make sure your background is also a solid color or something that's not distracting. Just try and find a wall that is clear and you can film your audition in front of I'm using a gray savage paper. You absolutely do not have to go out and get paper. That's an option that you can consider for the future if you want to make, you know, your backdrop a little bit nicer. Then for answering the questions, you're going to flip the camera so that it is horizontal and your framing should be around your waist to mid chest area as a bottom of the shot. And then above your head, you just want to leave a tiny bit of space. Again, you can be distorted and look strange. And this is just the best and most common framing I have seen. As far as editing this self-departition, you can use any free software that is out there. A lot of phones already allow you to edit within your phone. If you're an Apple user like a laptop or a desktop, iMovie usually comes free with that or you can purchase it for $15, but please don't spend any money in doing this practice audition. I really want you guys to be able to practice this with whatever you have and work out the kinks in your self-departition process so that when you do get an audition, you are better prepared and have worked out through all of the, how can I edit this? How do I upload it to YouTube as an unlisted link? All of that. And this should go without saying, but make sure you are lit well. Natural light is the best and that I can actually hear you and look straight into the camera when you are answering the questions. Try and put as much personality as you can in both the slate and answering the question. This is still something I struggle with because sometimes I'm in my head too much or you do too many takes and I just don't have as much me in this as possible. So it's something else that I'm trying to practice, trying to do a little dance before I do this or sing, some kind of show tunes. But in this particular example, I am not looking at the camera because it was for a scene, a scene audition. Anybody can do this if you're an absolute beginner, if you're advanced, if you just want feedback from me. And of course, if you are under 18, please make sure your parents know that you are doing this and have them either submitted or having and writing that you did get permission from your parents to be able to submit to this. Thank you so much for watching. At the end of every video, I feature another channel. This is today's feature. If you would like to be featured on my next video, make sure you're subscribed, like this video and leave me a comment.