 Hi, my name is Berkika and I am an actress based out of California and today I'm at the Soundwave Studios in Oakland because I'm a part of a short indie film. I'm actually playing a cult leader in this. I talked about this in a previous video in a blog and a few videos actually that I auditioned for a short and I got cast in it. So that's what we're doing today. Today is day two so we're actually going to be here all day. Right now it's around 12 o'clock and we're going to be here until 11 p.m. at the latest. Hopefully everything goes smoothly. We have so many shots to film but we have I think 20-21 people because that's the COVID maximum right now. We're wearing masks, social distancing, we have a COVID person that's in charge of taking temperatures and you know we did a questionnaire and such but everybody is either hanging out out here or inside of the venue and yeah so we're going to be shooting today and I'm going to try my best to blog a little bit here and there but if you guys want to check out this short I will make sure to link the page that you can follow. They have a page on Instagram and then whenever a link comes out if it gets published online I will make sure to share it in the description of this video. Hopefully you can hear me. Hold on before we continue with this video this behind the scenes video I was able to do while I was on set I wanted to share with you guys how I got this gig because I know 99% of my audience are also actors so you would like to know how to also book a job like this. This of course was you know an independent low budget film I did get paid for it and I did audition for it and it wasn't really through anybody I know we did end up having some people in common that we knew but I wanted to tell you quickly about this and how you can maybe in the future also audition for them. So how I was able to get cast in this film and asked to audition was simply by being one of the followers on their Instagram page for a film that Isaac had previously done called Bob Frank. When they were looking for actors to audition they simply went to their followers of that Instagram page and then saw which of them were actors and invited them to audition. So if you want to maybe one day audition for Isaac and Paul I highly suggest following the circle of 13 Instagram page which I will leave a link in the description for and just make sure your bio on your Instagram page says that you're an actor or that you're open to you know acting auditions and same goes with any other creatives around you any other filmmakers casting directors agents anything like that I highly suggest that you follow them on Instagram if their pages are public and then you know they will eventually look on their followers to see who are actors and ask them to audition because that's pretty much a no-brainer to you know look at actors that are online and then they can click on your links if you have links to your acting reel or other samples of your work. Okay let's let's get back to the vlog. So right now we just went over the whole rest of the film that we're going to shoot today and then the extras learned the choreography and even the band actually because the band is also pretty much everybody's doing the choreography except for me so right now everybody's setting up and we're gonna shoot a big master shot and then go shot by shot with different angles and different lenses and stuff but um right now we're in a five minute break so it's time to pee and get everything together and then um some people are going over the choreography over there but um it's pretty chill what organized I think we're I think we're running good on time um Isaac is a very good leader and everybody's just in good moods so far I mean hopefully we'll stay in good moods. Okay so we just finished doing maybe the first I don't know 15 seconds of what we're shooting today and we did a wide shot and then now they're setting up another shot that's only going to be shooting that same scene essentially but in the direction of the bar where we're filming and right now we're in a big outdoor space and there's a kitty sleeping on that bed but it's a nice big outdoor space where we can all relax for a little bit um and just hang out outside. So now we have our taking another break and um we got through a little bit more and the special effects person got here because there's a part where there's um but I'm taking a little break I came outside to take a drink some water there's like nobody around me but the cat I was talking about is right there I think we're on schedule ish a little bit earlier I heard that we were like 15 minutes behind schedule which in filming world is amazing don't know it'll be like hours behind schedule they're setting up a special effects table right outside then I know that we're gonna do after dinner because they have to do a bunch of setting up and um it's almost dinner time it's almost five o'clock now. Can we pull the tubing last fall? Yeah. We're gonna get the fall so we don't need any of the effect they're just kind of falling into this blood pile. I'm not sure if it's immediately obvious that it's the door but there's already um Alex. Let's see what we're gonna be doing. You might actually get the bomb. We are all done I just um left the set and I am exhausted um it's now 11 p.m and I got there at 11 30 a.m 11 15 actually um it was so much fun super positive attitude even though we were all there for a very long time it was just a great experience to work with Isaac and Paul and Jason and Brendan and so so many people um I had a lot of fun and Maggie shout out to Maggie um yeah it was so much fun and I am exhausted but um I hope you like this vlog and I will link whatever I can in the description so you guys can go check this out and 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