 Hi, it's Monday and I just got a self-tape audition from Aura Casting and actually didn't just get it, but I was busy this weekend because it was my mom's birthday, so I'm filming it right now. I'm going to change into some sports clothes and then my boyfriend's going to help me film it outside because they want a shot of me running close up and running full body. Originally I was thinking I should do this at my apartment complexes gym, but their cardio machines are still closed because of COVID, so we're going to go do it outside. We're going to change, we're going to look sporty, and we're going to go run. Right now I just need to look for a nice neutral backdrop so that I can film the running in. So I'm going to try and see if in this parking lot that there is something that doesn't look too crazy that I can run around in. I think I have to like stay up with you and keep up with you more. So my glasses are on, so we're going to have to shoot the first thing again, but at least we have a better hang of it. So right now let's do the close up one and then we'll go back and do that one more time. Last one, you cut my head quite a bit, so can you just do it a little bit higher? Okay, so we got a few good shots and I realized I like match the backdrop because there's some purple flowers and obviously greenery around me, but we got a few shots that I think will work and we're actually using a gimbal and that's why the shots are actually very stable for running. Obviously not sponsored, obviously not an ad, but I'm sure I can put a link in the description and an Amazon affiliate link in the description so I would get a percentage of it if you end up buying one. But this thing is so fancy, I'm just learning how to use it, but it just came in handy for this audition, so if I book this job then obviously it's paying for itself. But I didn't put any face makeup on, I had to take my glasses off because I forgot, I'm actually getting a smile surgery on Friday which is why I'm not wearing contacts today and I just gave my skin a little bit of a break from makeup, so in the video you can't see you know some randomness but it's okay, they know they can just cover it with makeup, usually I would prefer to have my makeup done and have it good for the audition, but it's all right. I think what mostly mattered for them this time was like my body type and just seeing how I ran for this specific casting call, this self-tape audition request, they wanted somebody that was athletic but not like a professional, obviously I don't have a like professional athlete's body, so I'm done with this self-tape. So I just reread the casting call or the self-tape audition request and realized that I needed to do a full body shot as well, so now I'm gonna do that. Last night when I was finishing up my self-tape four-ora casting, they emailed me that they had another self-tape four-ora casting and also something that wasn't included in the original like breakdown was that they wanted you to slate but then in the form to submit that says to include your slate in your audition in the same place, so I decided I would get up early today, so today is Tuesday and do this late and I did my makeup and then I'm gonna do the other audition as well, so I'm setting up right now to do my slate and then I'm going to record the other audition and I actually got a new backdrop which is longer than that one, this is an 86 inch, that one is a 53 inch and I'm gonna use the blue one, the new one for my second audition that I got from Ora, okay so let me finish this up because I it's 8 20 in the morning and I have stuff to do I'm actually working at my office job today, okay I think that looks good so now I'm gonna set up something in here, I'm supposed to have some kind of tall desk in front of me, I have one in my living room but it would take me really long to take everything off of it and put it over here it's more like a tall shelf so I might just hold the laptop instead of having it in shelf because really you just want me to look in a certain direction and I can pretend to be like let me switch this backdrop out and change into that other look for it's like a tech, to me it looks like a tech convention, that's what it looks like to me what the image I'm supposed to do so for this one I'm supposed to look out and wander and then the other one is a wide full body obviously full body shot of me on the computer and then one that's like a medium shot of me up on computer so I need to do that I have 36 minutes to film that edit both of them and send them over I did start editing the first one but I need to hurry up immediately tell this is a lot harder to light than the gray one it just looks a little off okay it was just auto white balance cool cool cool okay I'm gonna do my slate is this good lighting um I don't have a laptop so I'm gonna use a notebook so obviously I straightened my hair and I just did the other two shots and I'm gonna do the full body shot and then I'm gonna be done and have like 15 minutes okay I'm so glad I decided on that because that made it look so much better so I'm gonna go at it and then I need to hurry up I was trying to be early for my office job but unfortunately I was still a little late hey so today is uh Wednesday and I'm in Oakland and we are filming an industrial I finally realized uh they didn't give me usage information so this is a non-union industrial and everybody here is super nice I was uncomfortable with the makeup artist using their products for obvious reasons because of the pandemic you know and I'm getting eye surgery on Friday so they were nice enough to let me bring my own stuff so right now we're filming um basically I have a uh non-speaking role but it's like a lot of acting we are speaking but they're only going to be using most of this as b-roll so it's pretty fun everybody's very chill um I'm almost done hi you guys so I wanted to quickly go over my auditions the auditions that I got in April and March because I didn't do one last month I'm waiting for something in my car so I thought let's let's just go ahead and do this so if you've never seen this before I like to I'm trying to do this this is something I started this year but I'm trying to every first Saturday of the month I want to share with you guys what auditions I did which ones I booked where I got them from in case you can also get some opportunities from here um so I am of course is always going to blur out information that I think is appropriate to blur out to be professional to the people that gave me these opportunities um so I like to put the date where I got the casting from so if it was from my agent a self-casting LA casting uh a direct booking from maybe somebody I worked with in the past the name of the job or the company if it's an NDA that's really important to remember the role the pay rate the audition type so did I send in my reel a self-tape audition which one of the ones I booked uh this week I it was just from submitting a reel and I'll tell you about that in a second um and then did I get a call back was I booked yes or no and then I have notes miles traveled the day I got paid on if I did book it a link to the video or headshot that I submitted just to know which one I submitted and then some notes just to know you know what else is in there so let me scroll down to March and April March and April were definitely slower than I thought they were going to be at moments I felt like March and April were gonna start picking up maybe not I did recently reactivate my SF casting and LA casting account so that I can start self-submitting again because I was vaccinated um almost three weeks ago so I am self-submitting now um it looks like in March I got I only got six auditions but one of them I actually created myself so this list is audition slash slash projects because I do want to keep track of all my projects the first one is from Facebook because I met Havi on Facebook a few years ago when he was casting for a commercial he was doing so we actually co-wrote and produced and um created a short called the lease which he's currently finishing up editing we still have to do a little bit of a voiceover to put in there but that's what we created of course I didn't make any money from it and I cast myself so yes I was booked for it sometimes I forget all of the things that I did so I thought this would be a good way to even when it's short films or you know things I do with friends to put them in here as well so that I can remember and also so you know that you can just go and look for some creative people near you and get some stuff done the next one is the academy of art I originally found out about them through SF casting but I did get an invitation to do a zoom audition from the casting director there directly and then I booked it it was a student piece that they wrote I think they take turns it's like a group of students in the class there's different groups and one student will take turns of being the director the writer the editor I think that's it but they'll they'll take turns and do all of that and I booked that one and I had to use a green screen I have I'm pretty sure a whole vlog about it yeah from back in March and then the next audition was a voiceover audition for my agents I did not book that and then another audition for my agents a commercial audition self-tape I did not book that and then or a casting which I did do a video about them recently it's an a hundred percent it's a hundred percent online casting company and it was some kind of tech spot commercial audition I never heard back from that did not uh did not book that and my last audition for March which was really weird it was March 15th so that's the last audition I got for March which was crazy but I was working on other stuff like the short film and my videos and stuff so didn't really feel that slow but I got a voiceover audition for my agency and did not book it and then the first audition in April wasn't until April 15th and it was for a voiceover from my agents did not book it then uh let's go down to April then in the middle of April I reactivated my SF casting and LA castings account and immediately got um a self-tape audition request from Kristen Beck and then I also submitted my um my reel for another one and I did book it so let's go through the list um this is what I'm talking about on April 16th I sent in a voiceover I know they haven't filmed it it's an NDA they just put social media and did a NDA did not put any information on what it was um I haven't heard back from them and it's supposed to be shooting May 7th or 8th or something like that like it hasn't been shot yet so still maybe who knows haven't gotten any call or email from them so probably not but that was for a commercial project then on April 20th I got a voiceover audition for my agents my agents have been getting me so many voiceover auditions um and I didn't book that and then the academy of art again I did book it because it's a direct booking um they've used me before for another class it's a directing class and I did that and then um on casting networks I submitted my reel so if you guys saw the video of the reel that I created myself from self-tape auditions that I've done in the past I actually got booked for that it's for it was for an industrial job and you guys saw earlier in the vlog that I already did it I filmed it yesterday and that I just submitted that it was not speaking but they were using the b-roll so we still had to act out scenes and improvise scenes but they weren't going to be using our voices so it was like a featured background almost like I don't really know the category because you're acting but they're not going to use your voice so um and you the camera is looking you know right into your face and then the last two auditions that I did this month April 25th and 26th were both with aura casting with both four commercials um they both sounded like some kind of uh tech job um so yeah and you guys saw me film some of those earlier this week and I haven't heard back from those which was just a couple of days ago like I mentioned I'm going to get uh eye surgery tomorrow it's smile eye surgery and it's I'm pretty sure they're a big company because I know they have offices both in NorCal and SoCal and um I'm going to get smile surgery so I'm not going to have to wear glasses anymore that's why I have in more contacts this week because you're not allowed to but um that means that if I get an audition today like I'll add it to the vlog and I'll do it but if they I get anything sent tomorrow or really the next day I might not be able to do it just because I know for sure tomorrow I'm just going to sleep all day um so that's it those are all of the auditions that I got for March and April and that's it for this week thank you guys so much for watching I just looked at the subscriber count which it doesn't like really matter but it's cool to get like round numbers right and it's cool to know that there's actually people watching um I'm almost at 10,000 subscribers which is crazy um I think I need like 50 something and then I'll have 10,000 which is crazy because um I've been doing YouTube since 2017 and it's it's hard to like you know give people enough value so that they think that they should subscribe but regardless I really appreciate you for watching especially if you are all the way here at the end of the vlog thank you so much I appreciate it reminder that um May 1st is the last day today is the last day if you're watching this Saturday May 1st today is the last day to submit to the monologue competition so as long as I have your link in my email by May 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