 Good morning you guys! It is Tuesday and I'm about to help a friend with a self-tape audition that they have and then after that we are going to film another commercial filmed at home because I told you guys about that. I got cast for that audition that I sent in last week and I also have still been working on doing a bunch of research on my agencies in LA. It has taken me so much longer than I thought it was going to take me so I'm definitely going to work on that spreadsheet today but I'll see you guys in a sec when I am done helping Joey. Okay I am done helping my friend with the self-tape and I'm trying to see where I'm going to film now so I have this space that I have used in the past, this space here and they do want me to do a shot of my closet as well so I also need to shoot a little bit in here. This company sent me very detailed information as to what they want me to say. I have the script right here and the shot list very specific a lot more specific than the last one. For now let's figure out what we're going to do for the shots. Maybe these plants in the backdrop will be good except for like you know the mirror reflection so I can just move that around. Oh maybe if you can see my closet from the mirror maybe right here. I do really like this. I think I might do this again but from a little bit further so you can see more. Oh but it's going to be it's going to be portrait again so it's going to be like this. Oh yeah I think that looks good. You can get some books in the background. Okay I'm going to do it this way. I'm going to need some props too so let me grab the props and then I was going to try and memorize the lines before I started filming but the lines are really short so I'm just going to grab my props and then bring them here and then I'll shoot one line because that's what they want. They want B roll and then lines by themselves so I'll shoot each line and then I'll just quickly memorize each line before I start shooting because the lines are really really short so one of the things I need is money and luckily I have big money on this board like vision board and then I need leggings. I think they're in the dryer actually. And the last thing I need is a bike helmet. This shouldn't take me more than I'm gonna say 45 minutes. It's about 245 right now. I have my props sitting next to me and I have my shot list slash script and then I brought a pen because I'm just gonna check each thing as I'm going. I'm gonna go over all of the things they gave me first. They're like these are some general guidelines for you to be able to take the best footage as possible so the framing instructions is to shoot vertically. Okay oh I also need shoes that's what I was missing so I need to choose a pair of shoes. Why don't these look on camera? These don't look too bad. I just don't have any like new-ish looking shoes. These are the new-ish shoes I have. Okay I'm just gonna use these and then once I get to that B roll if it looks really bad I'll just change it to something else. To make it easier on myself I am going to and for them really I'm going to start and stop each video so that I can label it appropriately once I send it to them so I'm gonna shoot the B roll first. I'm done. Okay what time is it? 350. Okay it took me about an hour not terrible but I think it's because the B roll was quite a bit moving around but even then it didn't take me that long. I'm just gonna double check that I got everything. Oh I just realized that one of the lines that I did I thought it that was the end of it but there was a continuation I thought that one was a different one so I'm gonna do that one really quick. It's 4.30 now and I just finished. I just finished organizing all of the shots but I'm pretty tired I'm gonna take a little bit of a break actually and it's around dinner time so I might eat as well. Oh and I also need to go and upload these because when they give me the information the script for what I'm filming I have to turn it in within 24 to 48 hours and today would be 48 hours so I need to upload that and just from previous experiences it does take quite a while to upload all of this footage because it's pretty good quality so I think last time it was like 20 gigs of footage that I did. While the footage is uploading I'm going to clean up in my room a little bit because I got another audition so I actually have two self tapes that I got that they aren't asking me specifically to self tape just anybody whoever self tapes you know by the time they take down the posting then they will accept those so this one I'm just gonna do now even though I just want to stop working and take a break and go have dinner. I'm gonna shoot this one right now because it's one of those where they just ask you a question like tell us something about yourself and show us your space because it is yet another commercial at home like film your commercial uh the commercial at home and it is also paying better than the first company but I'm gonna clean up my room really quick. Okay I looked at the email again to really see what it was all about and I have my light set up here and in the closet again just like last time and you know what's funny just like last week I'm wearing this shirt I don't know I just I'm liking this shirt right now um so I looked I read the email again to see if they wanted me to also film it horizontally or vertically or horizontally or vertically portrait or landscape it doesn't say but I did read the the casting call again and it's not actually another company that does this uh you know a bunch of commercials it's a specific brand it doesn't show the brand but it's a specific brand it sounds like so it's an unboxing style video and then if it really doesn't say it like even when I try to submit it if they don't update the posting or anything I'm just gonna submit the landscape one because that's how I prefer to film I think it looks better so let's come over here and I'm I think I'm gonna just shoot it pretty much what I did last time because again they want me to they want to see the space a little too bright. Yeah the lighting is pretty terrible. Hi my name is Veljika Rodriguez and I am a whoa no okay I was really hoping to do it in one take but because of the lighting I think this is a take four okay I'm just gonna call it that's that's good if I if I get selected awesome I think the take was good the lighting was okay but it's sun is setting and I want to get this done today I don't want to submit it tomorrow because I would have to wait basically till tomorrow like 2 or 3 p.m for the lighting to be great in here now let's take a little dinner break for real like I just need to relax for a couple of hours and then get back to work because it's exactly 5 30 I still have so much work to do just take a little bit of a break and then we'll go and edit stuff and send stuff over it's almost 11 p.m and I've been working on editing that audition and just submitting to a bunch of casting calls for maybe an hour maybe a little bit more and then I'll see you guys tomorrow good morning guys it's June 16th Wednesday and I ended up falling asleep like at 11.50 last night I just fell asleep on the couch and I woke up with my makeup on which is terrible anyway I am about to select the winner of the um savage paper backdrop I told you guys in a past vlog that at the first Saturday of the month in June July and August I'm going to be giving away a paper backdrop a 53 inch savage paper backdrop not sponsored but savage was kind enough to be like sure you want to give away let's do it so I am screen recording right now so that I can show you guys the um when I select the winner yay Kawaii Dio 1 2 3 you won I'm just going to make sure that they actually live in the United States because for this giveaway um you do have to be in the USA but um the last show they watch was Corella which I've been wanting to go watch it's been out for maybe a little over a week but I'm definitely going to go watch it Kawaii Dio 1 2 3 I'm going to comment right now I'm going to pin the comment I'm going to reply to your comment so that you can email me and I can send you a backdrop yay okay I'm going to go shower and get this makeup off my face and take off my retainers bye hey it's uh Thursday today and I just got done um filming a video that will come out Monday I interviewed a couple of casting directors which I'm really excited to do and keep doing you know have a conversation between casting directors and actors I think that's really helpful um but something that I don't film almost ever is me submitting to casting websites and um right now I am doing casting networks um I'm submitting to a bunch of casting networks I just get email notifications and I go through all of them a few times a day as they come in if I'm able to I will submit to them if they apply to me and something that I wanted to do today that I um I'm also going to do is get an actor's access paid account and whip that together see what new hat shots I have put in there so that's what I'm doing right now I have my computer right in front of me and I am just submitting to a bunch of casting calls I don't know how much time I spend every day submitting to things on weekends usually you get less emails but during the week you get tons and tons of emails right now I have 50 unread emails from casting networks about different things it would be pretty boring to watch I can't really show you exactly the information that's on there because of course it's private unless they are explicitly saying please share this so that's what I'm gonna about that's what I'm about to do for the next 30 minutes or so just try and clear out this inbox and then work on some actors access I'm glad I ended up trying to clear these out because I actually have a media request from um who is this from Boba no casting in San Francisco so let me see what this is about I know I submitted to this because I remember submitting to this so this is due by tomorrow night and they actually sent this yesterday but I I had such a busy day yesterday and when I got home the last thing I wanted to do was be on my computer so um I just rested um so that's what I'm gonna do now then this is actually a super super easy audition so I'm gonna stop what I'm doing and do this it's one of those auditions where they don't ask you to say any lines but they just ask you to do an action so I'm gonna do that should take me maybe 20 minutes to set up and film it and then edit it send it over so hopefully right now it is 2 o 1 p.m. hopefully by 2 30 it's already sent to them so let's clean up because I was filming that other video it's a little bit messy in here and let's set up my self tape because this is the soft tape while I use but the paperback drop drops are not up so let's let's film the self tape for this self tape the actual the action that I need to do and no lines is pretty simple but I do have to do the whole shebang as far as the this late so my name height city the role I'm playing hands profiles full body shot I need to do all of that so um I'm gonna do all of the horizontal or landscape ones and then once I go to the vertical to take the full body shot in the video then I will do that but I'm gonna start here but I need to choose pants I really don't want to do black because the chair I'm gonna sit in for the audition is black but those are really the only ones that fit me and you to go get like all blue jeans I have blue jeans that are ripped but I need all blue jeans but this is a shirt I'm gonna wear I think I'm just gonna wear the black jeans done with this late now for the actual audition part I'm going to use a chair because this is actually um this person is actually gonna be in an office like in a medical office a doctor's office I got the shot so let's turn off these lines edit it and send it over the computer's actually right here so I don't have to go far to edit hey it's Friday evening and I was checking my email and I saw that I got a media request from a self tape I sent earlier another film at home but it's a specific company instead of a company that just produces a bunch of work um you know a bunch of film at homework I have that and then there was another casting call where again they're asking for a self tape immediately rather than inviting people to do self tapes so I'm going to do both of those self tapes I don't have any um makeup on my skin am I I'm debating if it's okay like I think my skin looks pretty good today I haven't straightened my hair and it's almost six o'clock I think what time is it yeah it's six o'clock and I really don't want to do my makeup yeah I think my skin looks good plus with the lights it'll be good and then the second one I'll just be doing right here I still need to add a light um that one's supposed to be somebody that works at an office so maybe I'll put my hair up since it's not you know too well groomed right now and then put some office attire on but that's what we're gonna do and the film from home is just some questions about myself plan something and then elaborate from there and then for the other one it does have uh one lines one line each for each scenario so pretty easy okay I'm gonna do the self tape first that requires me to just talk I took notes about the things they want me to talk about I'm gonna put them right here next to the camera in case I forget the order and this brand is an athletics clothing like a athleisure wear so I put on the sports bra and I think it's better that I don't have makeup one actually for this one as far as skin makeup and then my hair is natural and I'm gonna show some examples of the clothing that I wear so yeah I need to prepare a couple of outfits my god it's getting hot in here I'm done I'm done with these auditions I'm gonna go edit these self tapes and send them over right now and then maybe relax for the rest of the weekend unless I get another self tape but this week was pretty good decent amount of self tapes and a media request was it two I think it was two media requests thank you so much 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