 I'm doing my own hair and makeup today for an acting gig because often in non-union jobs, you're asked to come to set camera ready, which means you're doing your hair, you're doing your own makeup, and you're arriving to set in the outfit that you will be filming in. For the wardrobe instructions, they said business casual, jeans and a nice shirt or a sweater. So I'm going to bring a few different options as well as wear this to set because I think they're going to go for this. It's pretty neutral, a nice green color, jeans makes it casual, and then the top, I don't necessarily have to tuck it in, but I can. And hopefully not everybody brings green because usually a lot of people will bring blue to set. So I try to bring blue because production usually likes it as well as a few other colors. I just arrived to set and today is actually considered a half day even though I'm only here for about two hours. My call time is 12.30. I'm released by 2.30, so I'm taking all of my wardrobe and my hair and makeup stuff and my computer in case there's downtime. I got this job through my agency, but also through Aura Casting, which if you are in the United States in general really, it's an online casting company and they get jobs for all over. I've seen some in Colorado, I think last month they had one in Florida and most of them I've seen are in the Bay Area in LA and I believe that's because Aura started out in the Bay. Just got released from set. I wasn't able to film very much because it was an extremely small crew and we were running a little late at the beginning. It was great. One scene, easy. It's 2.05, so I actually got released early, right? I got here, my call time was 12.30. I think they just, they said that I would be here for two hours just in case, but we filmed my scene in less than an hour because we got called onto set one o'clock and then we did a wide and then a close-up of each person. Pretty good day. Oh my gosh, I basically got paid to work for like an hour, which is amazing. And this is a training video, so it would only be used internally. And so I got a flat rate. It was a buyout because it's going to be used internally. But now I have a bunch of time so we can do today's scene. Maybe I can go Christmas shopping, but I have stuff in my car and I don't want to leave it in the car and get broken into. So I have the rest of the day off because I took off the entire day to do this gig from my day job because you never know. Even if they say it's going to be half a day or you're only going to be there two hours, they can be running late, something can be wrong with the set, whatever. I just always take the entire day off. Before I do today's self-tape practice, I'm going to take a picture in this shirt because my agents in Arizona, I have new representation in Arizona and they would like me to get headshots. So my agents are helping me pick out outfits for my headshots. I'm doing three looks and they want to see if this is going to be one of them. I don't think they're going to like it with this undershirt, but if I don't wear an undershirt, you can see a lot. But I get with the vibe that they're going for because they did send me a lot of options that had a puffy sleeve and was very feminine. I believe I know the look they're going for. It's like puffy sleeve, feminine, delicate-esque. And this shirt I think might work as long as I'm photographed like this because if we get any lower, it just gets a little exposed. So I'm going to send them a picture of this one too. I don't like how the pictures are coming out in my bathrooms. So I moved into my office. These pictures are going to look so much better with backdrops. Not that it really matters because these are just photos of my clothes for my headshots, but still, I don't want to send in like bad photos. I'm going to email these to myself and then edit them into one canva so that they can see all of the images in one photo versus having to download each image and compare it. And I want to show you what they asked me to send because it was such a good idea. When I've worked with agents or photographers on figuring out what I'm going to wear for headshots, they will ask me to send in some wardrobe options. And what I usually do is put it on so that they know what I look like. But at this time, this agency asked me to send pictures of my clothes flat on the ground. And so they see all of the color pants and length that I have and all of the shirts and the sweaters. So here are pants, shirts. These are like fun personality shirts, I would say, for fun, for like commercial shots. And then all my sweaters and jackets that I have. This is more businessy, business casual. And you can see this pink shirt right here. And I told them, I'm happy to buy more things if you think whatever I have is not right. And the links that they sent me were almost all like puffy shirts, which is why I ended up taking a picture with this shirt because I think at the right angle, it can definitely be used for fun commercial shots. Here are the pictures that I was taking in the bathroom. And then here are the pictures I took in my office with the seamless backdrop. And this is what I sent over for my agents to approve for headshots, which I know they're not going to like the pink one now that I put it on, because I also haven't found the right shirt to wear under it. That'll actually make the shirt look good. The white one, I think they'll go for. I'm doing work on my computer. Typically I would self submit, but because of the holidays, there's not too much work. I usually self submit for LA. And then my agents in San Francisco submit me for there and my agents in Arizona submit me for there. So it's a bit slow because it's December and typically a lot of things are already coming out or people are on vacation for the holidays. So because of that, I am doing a self tape every day. It's an either a TV show where the episode is Christmas themed or it's a Christmas movie. And what I'm doing with that is that I'm doing self tape practice every day. So if I don't get a lot of auditions, like I typically don't in December, then I can still have some practice and have some fun. And I set myself up for success because I'm putting a 15 minute timer and then preparing the scene or monologue. And when that timers up, it's time to film something. Before I do that, I'm just checking my email. And I got an email from a filmmaker that I actually met in the summer at a film festival at the Brave Maker Film Festival in Redwood City. And we were on a workshop together. So we actually got to work together and she got to see me act. And so she was like, hey, I would love to do a short film with you. And she sent me the script. And so now we are setting up a meeting for like a week and a half from now to go over the details and see how we can do this. This production is going to be pretty small because it's about a page. I'm the only actor in the film and the settings are a car and a bar. So it's time to do the self tape. I don't have a reader today. If whatever is in door number four is a scene, but I had a couple people reach out to me because they watch the vlog saying, hey, if you want a reader, I'm here. Thank you so much. You are so sweet. I'm going to try and get organized so I can actually take you guys up on it because right now it's like, I don't even know what time I'm going to film it because I was doing so many random things. So I'm going to try and organize it so I can like plan it with one of you guys and actually do a self tape instead of being like, hey, I'm ready. Are you ready? And you're like in the middle of dinner. Let's see what's in door number four. Bad Santa. I love this movie. This movie is so fun. The script for this is a monologue. It's a monologue. So this is the monologue where I don't know the character names, even though I watch it like once a year. They're at the mall. The guy that hired bad Santa is telling maybe like the mall manager or something that he caught the Santa doing it in the dressing room. But this monologue is a bit, I mean, not super lengthy, but definitely the longest that I've done so far. I'm really excited to prefer this one. I'm going to do a timer on my phone today. I put a six 15 minute timer. So let's go. I'm going to keep this shirt on. I feel like maybe somebody would wear this to their office job. I have 24 seconds on my timer. So I didn't even get a chance to get up and play with it standing. But here are my two takes that I want to do. Do one take where the character is religious and worried about the kids and the innocence of the kids and they shouldn't even be around somebody like that. And then the other take is going to be like a raunchy person talking to their friend who also works at the mall and they're trying to conspire against this nasty guy to try and get him fired. But maybe she's a little nasty too. Maybe she's a little gross. Maybe she's a little jealous that she's not the one. So let's try it. I actually almost have it memorized. I think I mixed up like two or three lines. But I basically have it memorized. I have it right here on my phone. Take two. Okay. I think I almost got it. One more. Take five for this version. Oh my gosh. That's so close. It just feels so close. I'm going to try and do it again and not try to be word perfect or look at the script. Okay. Let's do the other one. Let's do the one where I'm like a gross girl. Okay. That one was fun. But I need to remember that maybe I'm into him. Which part? Take seven or eight. You know, they have a sensitive sense of tender sensibility. Let's do it again. Okay. One more. One last one. I keep wanting to do just one more. Okay. Let's just do one more. That was really fun. And I almost memorized it word perfect just by playing around with it. So that made it even more fun. I'm realizing that having the script gets me out of it a little bit. But anyways, that was super fun. Here are the two best takes and I'll see you tomorrow. A couple of days ago, I was in the woman's big and tall and I heard these, the woman screaming and she was like, oh yeah. And then I heard his voice and he was like, you ain't gonna SAJT right for a month. Oh, but don't get me wrong. I was against the Clinton impeachment. Whatever a man does with his penis, you know, it's not for the American people to say. But when you're dealing with children, they have a tender sensibility. And you're in the position of trust. I just, I don't feel that, you know, a person who has screaming orgasms with a large woman should, anyways. But of course I can't fire him for that. But I just can't help it. Something about the guy just makes me feel uneasy. So maybe there's something I could fire him for. Do you think you can find something? Oh my God. The other day I was in the woman's big and tall and I heard these, you know, these noises. I heard a woman, she was screaming and she was like, oh yeah. And he was like, that's right. You ain't gonna SAJT right for a month. I mean, don't get me wrong. I was against the Clinton impeachment. Whatever a man does with his own penis, oval office, woman's big and tall, it's not for the American people to say. But when you're dealing with children, they have a tender sensibility. And you're in the position of trust. You know, I just don't think that men who have screaming orgasms with large women should. But of course I can't fire him for that. But I just can't help it. There's something about the guy that makes me feel uneasy. So maybe there's something I could fire him for. Maybe you can find something?