 The earliest memory I have of self-tape auditions was in the specific apartment and I know I used to film a lot in my bedroom and in my kitchen and this was in 2017. I don't know if I've I self-taped before then but for sure I did a self-tape for a few commercials and even a theater in 2017 because back then when you couldn't go to an actual theater audition you could ask and maybe they would say yes if they were interested in you of hey can I just put a monologue on tape and that was pretty strange back in the day and now that's like the normal thing to do and pretty recently I found an old self-tape. This is from May 18th 2017 and I thought it would be fun to look at this audition with you and give myself feedback of what I would do in order to make this audition better. Hi my name is Beljika and I'm an actress based out of California and let's watch my self-tape from May 2017. So based off what I labeled it as this is not the original label I just labeled it when I downloaded it from Fimeo. Novulam it sounds like a medicine so maybe it was like a commercial audition. First let's just take a look at the setup here my head let me see is it going to show my forehead once I press play. My name is Beljika. No okay why am I talking like a baby my voice sounds like a child um okay so I would not want to show the outlet I'm sure that's where my ring light was plugged into which shout out to this ring light because I don't know that was from that that cord looks a little bit more janky that cord looks like my umbrella lights so those were when I was using umbrella lights I would not want to show this outlet just because it's a distraction it doesn't look too professional and then over here on the right side you can see my carpet and the border of the door which I don't mind so much but like let's just do a clean slate or a clean backdrop a clean backdrop and then the top of my head uh yeah I would want to just keep like a little bit of space at least like I'm doing now uh when I'm recording of course I look super different this was only four years ago from filming this video but I was definitely a lot thinner I still have that shirt I still wear that shirt that I used to audition with that shirt all of the time and I still do whenever it's for a tech commercial um because it's just a nice color and it's easy to wear easy to clean my hair was a lot shorter and that makeup do you guys remember when we used to put white in our eyes that comes in and out of trends all the time fashion trends all the time I am clearly looking at myself let's see okay I sound and look a little bit dead it looks like I'm staring at myself on my camera like this you know I'm looking at myself now but instead of looking at the camera when you do a slate you should look at the camera and then my voice is just like hi my name is belgica rodriguez it just sounds I'm sure I still do this in slates where I sound dead when I'm not careful but why do I sound like that it's not even that long ago I said I'm 26 yes what's four years ago procedimiento genérico la prioridad de su médico es hacerlo sentir cómodo informado acerca de sus opciones de tratamiento okay so my makeup's not very good I hate my eyebrows I'm still working on getting something good for my eyebrows but my eyebrows done I really don't like them and it clearly looks like I did not memorize the lines but in this occasion I give myself a pass because these words I'm remembering in Spanish were very hard they're just words that I don't use I came to the US when I was four and I went back and forth and did some schooling in Mexico but basically like I have elementary school knowledge as far as Spanish elementary level Spanish so there's a lot of words that I never used in Spanish so I don't know so that's why I'm looking down a lot Torio para someterse a un tratamiento de cirugía oral okay oral surgery that's what this is about and there's no transitions between the slate and the rest of the audition I just did one which me back then I'm sure wasn't as good as slates I mean the slate wasn't very good but you know having a slate separate from the audition usually allows you a little bit more flexibility of being able to choose the best take versus the best slate you know like you can choose the best one of each and there's no title cards no lower thirds of my name because my name isn't so common now since I took the workshop with Ranjeev in the Meisner Center online and he was like yeah you should just leave your name on the screen because you know your name's not so common I thought oh that's actually a really good idea and it also helps casting directors if they just want to immediately know who is this person the name's right there instead of having to even look at what the file name is or whatever make their life super easy yeah so this just sounds like a voiceover to me instead of an audition of where I want to look friendly and I don't know my personality and this one is just dead to me and the lines are a little bit more voiceovery like if I close my eyes let's hear yeah if I listen to it with my eyes closed it sounds better so this was an industrial then because it sounds like you know if you have any questions this is what's going to happen this would be for an industrial something that they would show internally and not for like commercial commercial usage or anything like that again my face is like dead and I'm looking oh my face isn't that dead but my eyes are dead I'm just looking at myself the whole time oh that was it okay let's look at the ending okay that wasn't so bad that that wasn't so bad but just hearing my voice I mean that was hilarious I do wish I would have tried to memorize it a little bit more because that definitely would have allowed me to connect more with the camera at this stage of my self tapes definitely I wish I would have flipped the phone over because I was clearly just staring at myself the whole time where now I feel like I'm pretty good at not looking at myself when I'm recording like right now I'm recording with the front camera and I don't really look at myself much unless I really want to check on something but um yeah and this one I'm clearly just like staring at myself the whole time and my eyes are not giving anything um yeah I give her for where she is in her career uh seven out of ten but definitely you know a few little mistakes but in general I mean my hair looks good I want to cut my hair again anyway I thought that was fun and a little bit hilarious thank you so much for watching 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