 Every day in December I am doing self-tape practice because historically I just don't get very many self-tape audition requests or acting bookings although tomorrow I am going to be filming an industrial. That's why I wanted to do this practice in December so I don't feel rusty once January comes along and they start getting a bunch of auditions. I put a bunch of scenes and monologues from different tv shows and movies that are Christmas in here and we are going to pick from door number three. I don't have a reader, I just spent all day hanging out with my friends and making cookies. We had brunch, we hung out, watched some Christmas movies and they were supposed to help me with my self-tape today but then I was like let's just hang out and I'll do this later, figure it out. So I might have to just record the other lines if this is a scene and not a monologue. The office season 7 episode 11. This means I can record the lines again so what I did yesterday because I didn't have a reader was I recorded the lines of the other characters so I can do the scene without having a reader here in person or online. Putting the timer for 15 minutes although I don't even know if I need 15 minutes because it's a pretty short scene and I am very familiar with it since I have seen the office way too many times. This is a really fun and important scene for Pam because she used to be a receptionist and now she is the office administrator. I keep doing one that is happy and then one that's annoyed and doesn't like it. How about if I make it a little bit different just so I can practice different things? Something that I truly believe that I am not good at and this might come out terrible. I want to practice being deadpan, deadpan acting. I've auditioned for a few different commercials where the character is just deadpan and it is so much fun so I want to try one deadpan and then one I'm going to try. Pam being very excited and happy because it's Christmas time and there's a Christmas party today. It's a classy Christmas and she has a new position at work and she didn't even have to interview or go look for a different job and now she makes more money and she has this new position that is way more exciting than before. Oh my god the deadpan one I feel like it's going to be bad but it's okay we're practicing this is trying nobody this isn't an actual audition for deadpan it's me trying to become better at deadpan because I have about five minutes left and I have the pan one the like traditional pan one pretty set and then the deadpan one it's going to be somebody who doesn't like working there is like why am I now the office administrator all this means is that now I have to do this instead of just sit around and wait for a phone call and then sit around again for a long time before I have to do any work so let's see if I could make that deadpan you guys tell me if it's like not that deadpan because sometimes I feel like I'm doing deadpan and then it just sounds like I'm reading off of a book yes I'm going to do this in my PJs because I've been in my PJs all day it's Sunday night and why not I did around 20 minutes of different takes let's see how it goes here are my two best takes and if you haven't seen all of the other self-tape practices I've been doing I'll put them at the end of the video and if you want to do this too even if it's just a few practices during your holiday vacations if you want to get some practice in let me know it'd be fun to know that other people are getting some practice into I'm the office administrator now which basically means I'm being paid to be the head of the party planning committee the first thing I did as head was I shut it down at its worst it was a toxic political club it used to make people feel miserable and left out and at its best it planned parties so it hardly looks fake it's so lush right why does it smell real oh air freshener merry christmas good um nope I'm the office administrator now which basically means I'm being paid to be the head of the party planning committee and the first thing I did as head was I shut it down at its worst it was a toxic political club it made people miserable and made them feel left out and at its best it planned parties this tree hardly looks fake it's so lush oh air freshener oh merry christmas good uh great nope