 It's Wednesday. And I actually very last minute last night got booked by a film school. It's the art Academy in San Francisco They're doing online classes, of course, and they needed actors They used to me in the past so they basically were like we need an actor for tomorrow and next Wednesday Do you want to do it? And I was like sure of course like getting paid for acting. I can do it at home I love that so My desk is actually over here and I set up a little ring light and my backdrop so right now They're not using me. They're using other actors So I'm just waiting around but of course I'm more than happy to you know have this opportunity to act and to Be with student directors and student writers because they are going to eventually, you know work on real or this is real But work on professional projects So that's what I'm doing right now. We have a few scenes I just got this yesterday. So it's not my rice. I'm just reading it off the The page the instructor in this course. I've worked with before Because I've done this in person years and years ago And it was really fun. She's super sweet and she definitely recognized me She's like hey, it's been like six years and I was like it's actually been three years, but it feels like six years It's Friday and Yesterday I got a voiceover audition request and I've had this voiceover set up I got it for Christmas very excited I've had it for a couple of months and I've been using it at my desk But I've been wanting to set it up in my closet and I moved my desk that used to be right there to my living room because I just wanted to be in the living room and I realized oh shoot now I don't have somewhere to record my voiceovers because it's too echoey over there and I just connected it to my phone right now because it's a USB-C to a USB-C and it actually works So I'm gonna test it out today. I'm about to record that voiceover audition Using this phone. So my phone is powering all of this and I have that little USB What is this called this little box? I keep forgetting what it's called. Jesus There's a lot of wires and I still need to clean everything up to make it Work in here. So I don't have to take it down every time, but I'm going to record that it is a little bit later I did my hair and my makeup. I mean my hair was pretty much already done, but written out The script my lines are this much for memorizing. I like to write it out and then say it a few times This is pretty easy nothing too crazy. It's very conversational I also printed it out because I am going to be holding my sides during the zoom call So if I forget about something I can just look down I'm going to work on this for a little bit longer because I do think I can memorize it before it's the audition time I have just over an hour So I'm going to work on it a little bit on and off so I can memorize this And then also start to memorize the other scenes for the art Academy because the next and final rehearsal is Wednesday So it's you know about a week away, but because I am a little busy right now during the week I'm actually doing an office job right now. So I was helping for a little bit and then they need more help So basically I'm helping Monday Tuesday Wednesday at an office unless I get an acting thing It's temporary. I don't really know how long But because I know I'm a little bit busy during the beginning of the week I'm just going to go ahead and start memorizing the scripts I'm realizing I didn't really tell you guys about how I got in contact with the art academy This one in particular is based out of San Francisco. I first heard of them through San Francisco casting So it's casting networks in San Francisco. I used to do a lot of work for them You would go to their open auditions at the beginning of their semester They would have auditions and then you would go in and audition for that entire class or whatever you might fit for And one year I think I got or for one of the classes I think I got cast in like four or five of them. There was just like so many scenes I'll show you guys a little clip of one of the things I did with them. Thank you and why I'll be straight with you in three years. You've never impressed a single person in this agency I've asked everyone about your performance Right down to the night cleaning crew They all think you're worthless So then after that I didn't have to submit anymore because the person that's in charge of casting at that academy would just send me emails whenever they were going to have open calls and She would just invite me because you know, she's seen me a few times. So She's really good at just remembering, you know people that she wants to come back and then she invited me to do the mfa auditions Well the the auditions for the mfa films, which is what I'm doing Today at 340 and those ones are actually not paid But you're getting footage for your reel, which is exactly what I want to do because I haven't been working very much In 2020 or 2021 I do want to get things that are more current because my hair is Significantly longer than in the past. My hair grows really fast. And now I'm Transitioning to you know, having my hair long. So I don't have I don't think any footage in a professional setting Good quality, which these mfa programs should be I've never done an mfa program shoot But I've done the other ones and even the other ones are usually really great quality well edited where good sound Good lighting all of that but I would love to do this because it's going to give me good footage And then I'm going to be in that other short film that I got cast in a few weeks ago The one I have a reading for tonight So I'll have at least those two things to add to my reel for 2020 And then hopefully I'll continue to do things. Um, one of my friends who is in a band They are doing a music video and he also invited me to be in that and although that isn't going to be so Acting related it's going to be more of, you know, visual It's like modeling or acting without words, which I wouldn't really want to put that in my reel Just because I want to put things in my reel where I'm talking and I'm acting Um, well, I'm acting while talking for the mfa film. I know if I get cast it's going to be filmed in San Francisco And they said it's going to be like five or six days so I'm going to need to figure out when those are and how I can make it work to go to san francisco and You know balance everything else out So now I'm going to continue to memorize some lines and then tonight At 6 p.m. I'm going to do the reading for that film. I was cast in that short film I was cast in a few weeks ago We're going to do our first reading today and then we're not going to shoot until April but I mean it's like a month away at the very beginning of april. We're shooting Um, so that's it I'm excited that this week started to pick up a little bit auditions wise because I was just looking at my audition tracker And there's not a lot of auditions for february Which is funny because I really thought that february acting was going to pick up just from previous experiences But that's like 2019 Um that acting started to pick up in february But anyway, I should get back to memorizing the script But the script is like Just over a page. I would say yeah, just barely over a page And of course there's somebody else in the scene so It's not very long I'm gonna go over it if you guys memorizing is If you are an actor, you know that memorizing isn't so much fun like being in a scene acting is really fun But I don't like memorizing like I do it and it's exciting to Memorize things quickly and of course you need to practice in order to make that happen but My brain I've noticed that after like 15 to 20 minutes It just wants a break. I've started to do this memorizing exercise of Memorizing for 15 or 20 minutes Pausing going to do other things and then coming back to it My brain will absorb so much more if I actually give it a break and when I don't want to do it anymore I don't do it and then actually come back to it Oh, and something I forgot to tell you that At this art academy, they also often work within professional, you know doing professional Projects and I was in a PSA for the fire department in San Francisco as well So the same casting director actually invited me to audition for this. I believe it was a project where they have these students Work together with a professional You know somebody that wants a professional job made and for this one like they had a helicopter They had like of course entire crew. There were students there Firefighters even that real firefighters were in this PSA and I actually found that PSA And for that one I also auditioned at the art academy and everything so That same day I auditioned for a few other commercials that they were working on But this is the one I got casted and it was so much fun There was a real firefighter there or like a few firefighters and one of them One of them actually like gave me one of his shirts because he was like, oh, I wish I could give you something to like You know, it's a thank you for doing this and I was like, it's like I'm an actress. It's okay He's like, no, no here take my shirt and like he gave me his shirt It's somewhere I think it might be in storage because like I share a closet with my boyfriend But it was just so funny that like a firefighter gave me a shirt But I felt weird like not saying no, but I also wanted it because it's a cool firefighter shirt from San Francisco Um, but yeah, this was a few years ago. It was just a funny situation It's about 10 minutes before the um zoom audition So I'm setting everything up right now Making sure everything goes good if they asked me to do a full body shot I'm ready for that have my shoes right here. So I'm gonna grab them put it next to me and then I'm wearing the best outfit that I think is good for the character Um And the lighting is good right now is like perfect time because right now is the time of the day where there's actually a little bit of sunlight that comes into my room. So the lighting is extra good It's just being filled by some my by my ring light that I use for every audition So I'm gonna continue to go through my lines and then wait for my turn to audition Okay, I just got done doing the audition for the art academy and it was really fun I read it a couple of times and they gave me some more notes And then we improved a little bit which was nice because I'm so used to just staying on you know on the script It was nice to um Do a little bit of improv and uh, they it's today's their first day of auditions And they're going to it sounds like they're going to be doing a lot of auditions usually for the student Scenes of student films They do tend to do a lot of auditions and I think it's because you know, they're learning about casting They're learning about directing about all of that. Um for this one in particular It is the mfa program. So they do know quite a bit about it I imagine that they want to see as many people as possible so that the you know, then structures can tell them This one was good because of this You know, these are the people that you should consider or what did you think about this and just comparing a lot of Actors so you can really get to know how to direct actors in the audition process and they can because the Writer wrote the person whose project this is for their mfa gave me direction and then Jayna gave me direction and then I think there was one other one I think the first time. Oh, yeah the first time I just did it by myself like how I prepared it Um, so yeah, there's a lot of auditions. So I probably want to hear back about this for maybe a week or more But it was fun Now I have a little bit of time before my reading tonight for my uh Before the reading for the other short film that I'm going to be in so I'm just gonna relax for a little bit. It's friday It's time for my reading for the short play or the short film I'm going to be in so I'm making some tea and I'm gonna go bring the backdrop so that I have a plain backdrop instead of my living room The Reading rehearsal is over. Um, and it was pretty easy just you know a read through we're gonna have another rehearsal and I'm gonna have a rehearsal with The lead singer of the band who we're gonna, you know do a few rehearsals through my beautiful voice I'm really excited to be working on this short film because A lot of my fear of self-submitting because this was one of the occasions where I self-submitting is that it's not Going to be a covet safe environment and this very much sounds like they're taking it very seriously It's going to be a maximum. I think of 20 or 21 people on set including all of the actors. So Of course, that's good. There's some outdoor scenes the scene that I'm in I know is indoors and like a club setting of the room is going to be big Um, and then a maximum of 20 people on set. So we should be able to social distance and distance and all of that Um But I'm excited to be doing this. Oh, and I almost forgot. Um, before this rehearsal I got an email from somebody that I auditioned for a while ago and um, they want me to do some social media commercial, uh, it will it's it's a short commercial for I think it's a gaming app Um, like a foam game app and it's going to be running on social media So it's just like a short film at home, which I'm excited to Hopefully get booked for that because it's a film at home And I haven't done anything that I'm getting paid for to film or record at home That voiceover audition I did today is also a record at home So maybe I'll be doing two of them in one week because that voiceover is next thursday if I get it And then if I get this um social media Gaming commercial it sounds like it'll be pretty soon because it's you film it at home So you just do it, you know as soon as possible But um, maybe I'm gonna get that. Okay, hold on because I just got an email from Those people and they're actually gonna send me Some equipment to film at home and they're gonna send me a script and a shot list and all of that So I have officially booked this film at home commercial Um, so I will make sure to include it in the vlog for next week It was a pretty slow start to the week, but then it picked up a lot today. Um, that's it Thank you guys so much for watching 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