 Last day. Oh my gosh. I'm a little sad that it's it's coming to an end, but I'm glad that there's an extra day It's gonna start off with an acting class of crying on cue But first I need to go get breakfast and drink so much water because I'm realizing that I haven't been feeling great Luckily in the VIP bag we had electrolyte powder things, but let's go get breakfast After breakfast I did have a little bit of time to talk to some people in the lobby And then we went to the first session Faith had us do an internal gaze exercise explain her method and the difference between hers and others and why hers works This is your life. This is happening to you. You've done this. This is for you all. After the crying exercise, she helped us get happy again by doing a happy dance Now Amanda Melby from Verbs Studios and she helped us with the power of action verbs I wish for you to be spontaneous. It's not on this sheet, but you'll try it bully? She also had audience interaction by having Adriana come up Well, I came to my room to um check out But I just wanted to talk about what I felt during the Faith Hibbs Clark crying on cue class Oh my god I did end up crying But I was crying because I was really uncomfortable because it just didn't work for me like I liked Her perspective, but because I already have like a different technique that I use I use like the miser technique Which has worked a lot better for me because I have more training in it Like I know this could work for me if I trained with it better But when we were doing the first exercise she said to tell ourselves like Like out loud to tell ourselves. This is this is not acting. This is real life And that completely took me out of it because I work so hard To make sure that I remind myself that this is acting and this is not my real life But that's flawed obviously like this method works and that Miser method works and I don't have either one like completely solid But it just made me really uncomfortable because I don't want to put myself in the position of like Okay, I'm thinking of this really dark thing as if it was my real life And then we switched to like a reactional like crying where you're supposed to like move and then say a line and cry And that was making me really uncomfortable because it was just very very sad And I was I was like wanting to cry only because everybody else in the room was crying and not necessarily because I was able to concentrate When she did the exercise to get us out of that emotional state She ended up playing a song that triggers crying to me. You're like It didn't work for me and I was just like crying instead of getting back into it I was just like crying and I don't know if anybody else had a similar reaction where that just didn't work for them But most of the people that provided feedback they were like, oh, yeah That was really good because of this and I found myself crying for the first time without getting angry first or whatever But I was just really uncomfortable with it Again, I do think that if I actually Went to her courses and studied it for real It would work for me because I would be able to be like, hey faith this part makes me uncomfortable How can I change that but this time because it wasn't a big environment I wasn't really able to do that But anyways, I just wanted to say that while I still have it because I was like crying While the next session started because I wasn't able to get into the happy dance space Her thing to like get us out of that emotional like sad side is to do a happy dance Which is a really great idea But just a song happened to be like I have just really happy and really sad memories because I do because it's personal So I need to go Now it's time for the director producer panel Let's introduce our panel. We have Deborah, Abe and Craig Welcome I would forgive a lot of things, you know, especially if they're New actors, but the problem that I would see that I see that across the board that any actor Know your line is super important to look at your resume to list whatever kind of extra skills you have But don't embellish So we're going to take a quick 10 minute break and then we're going to be back for the captain director panel I'll see you Just like last year the panelists and the speakers are so kind and they took the time to talk to us and take photos after Casting director panel moderated by fang and the casting directors here are alexis bella and beth Are you focusing on reels? What do you mean? Yeah, we kind of go on the side of the role But generally at first I'm just kind of looking through his headshot and think who fits the general feeling of that role You can gather a lot from a headshot, but you know, we do like to click through your other material So I always advise people have them up there. So you're gonna have to look at your resume really there I would say before we even post the breakdown I go through my little roll of decks of people that when I'm reading the script just kind of who is Who's locally that I know that would play this really well or they've done a similar role for another project Or they got a callback or something similar yesterday. They were a lot of questions about self-submission that I bet I don't know how to self-submission in my project So that's one tip is the most lacing only but Unless it's something weirdly hard to find So I'm already making an assumption that people who have agency reputation have some degree of trying whether, you know, every training Or there is something that that agent Thought, you know, that agent believed in them or believes in them and has something, you know, special that I need to know So which I encourage everyone to have headshots that have this show personality You know, everyone every woman wants to have this glamorous headshot really just look, you know, viewable and sexy And it's just rare that that's what I'm looking for Investor money in training investor money in quality coaching investor money in those kinds of things And remember that a headshot is just a very small part of that package It's your initial impression to casting it's your initial impression to agents when you're trying to get an agent Incredible colleagues are just so amazing But I hope that you took the time to really connect with people In my experience this year's conference was better than last year's after the conference was over I was able to talk to a few actors about what they got from the conference as well as an agent And why she recommends her actors come to this conference click right here