 Hi, my name is Beljika Rodriguez and I'm an actress based out of California and I'm doing a self-tape challenge where I'm doing a self-tape every day and each week is themed differently. Today's template is another question. Tell us something about you 30 seconds to one minute. I am putting myself a timeframe because when I get self-tape auditions that require me to just talk, it's really hard for me to put it in a concise way in 30 seconds. That's not a lot of time. I mean, I've already been filming here for a minute and a half and I haven't even gotten started with the video. That's the timeframe and then for the slate, it's going to be name, height, agency, close-up smiling and then full body shot and something that I've been thinking about for the longest time about full body shot is that I have these awesome savage backdrops which I am doing a giveaway during this self-tape audition challenge or what I'm challenging myself to do and inviting you to do if you want it to. I'm giving these away so I'll put the information for that also so I don't have to repeat it in every video. I'll put it in the description and in the comments. But I have these paper backdrops but I can't unroll it because I have carpet here. I mean, I could but then it's going to get really crunchy and today I thought what if I get something that's flat, weights and then maybe I can be able to do it. So I have a cheese board here that I'm going to put right in the middle and I have some weights that I'm going to use for the paper and I just tested it out. I think it's going to work. You guys will see in the self-tape audition if it ends up working. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to step right in the middle and then hopefully it doesn't crunch up. I think it'll work. So it's going to be a full body shot. I'm going to turn the phone vertically but right now I'm stepping on it and I can of course pull it forward more so that you're not able to see the weights if needed. But I don't think it will be needed. Yay! I think I figured out how to do my slate in my bedroom with the entire backdrop because I would have to take it to my living room and it's a lot more echoey over there because here I have carpet. Over there there's hardwood floors. So I'm excited to hopefully get a really good looking slate. For today's question of tell us something about you, I want to share that I like making costumes. It's just something that I really like doing. And also that I have recently started going to music festivals and a lot of people wear costumes to music festivals so it gives me more inspiration to do that. So here's the self-tape I filmed for today. Wait, before I show you the self-tape that I am filming for this time, I have filmed this in the past and I did get cast in something for sharing the same story. So I filmed this back in I think 2017. I look quite a bit different because I weighed a lot less and also my teeth. I don't think I was done or I had just started my Invisalign so let me show you first what I did back in 2017 and I'm realizing wow my full body slate was really bad even though the room that I have now is a lot smaller than that one. Let me just show you what I turned in that time. Hi, my name is Veljika. I am 5'10 and I'm with Marla Dell Talent. And one of my hobbies is to make costumes and I recently went to my first music festival ever and I made some fun hats to wear and this is one of them. I call it To the Jungle. It had a bunch of animals on it because I only hot glued them on. They fell off on the way home but this is one of them. It's the giraffe and it has a little floral crown and it was really fun to wear. A lot of people would come up to me during the festival and just start talking to me about the hat which I thought was really funny. I didn't realize people were going to like this silly hat so much but I had a great time. So you can see the lighting wasn't the best and for the full body shot and the audition was okay but let me give you an updated one with 2021 Me. Essentially the same story. I'm adding a little bit to it but let me show you. Now let me show you today's self-tape. Hi, my name is Veljika Rodriguez. I'm 5'10 with MDT. One of my favorite things to do is make costumes and usually I only have that opportunity around Halloween time. But in 2019 I finally went to my first music festival and I decided to make some costumes for it and this is one of the hats I made. I call it Into the Jungle. You can see there's a lion up there and there's other animals crawling around over here. And this hat was really fun to make and really easy to make but the funnest thing about it is that so many people wanted to come up and take photos of it, ask me about it and I just got to meet even more people during that music festival because of this fun hat that I created. Let me know what you thought about that self-tape and if you were able to see the board during this late, let me know or let me know if it looked good. And if you ended up doing today's template, let me know the details on submitting to the giveaway are in the description and in the comments. And at the end of every video I feature another channel and today I wanted to feature somebody who subscribed to me who leaves a lot of comments and is super super supportive Julian, go check out his channel. He also has some content about acting so go check him out and thank you so much for watching. If you would like to be featured on my next video, make sure you're subscribed, like this video and leave me a comment.