In a CDs mind, there are only two types of actors: Amateur and Pro.
It's not credits that make a CD think of you as a Pro.
Don't try to please the CD. Make yourself stand out.
Pro Audition Adjustments:
1. Frame It
Create rock-solid, laser focused, uber specific goals.
Find "life and death" stakes for your character, systematically raising the stakes for your character, even in a boring or exposition heavy scene. (This does not mean turning the scene into a life and death situation if it's not.)
Transitions: create a seamless throughline by identifying and filling ALL the transitions (major, minor, and embedded)
2. Fix It
Audition Traps: (If you pause when the script says "Beat" that's playing the result.)
Identify the "domino" action and do only those to move the scene forward without overdoing it.
3. Fill It
Ask SMART clarifying questions when you clearly should.
Use your body the right way in an audition. Don't act from the neck up. Always connect with your body and use it strategically.
Don't make the same choices other actors are making. There are never too many details. Figure out what the most obvious choice is and do the opposite. Make ultra specific, UNIQUE, choices.
4. Flip It
Less is more. Discover exactly how you can do less and make a bigger impact.
Use the same prep process for small roles as for big roles. Pros have unique processes for each.
5. Finish It
Pros never tell; they DO. Don't tell them what you're about to do.
Don't ask to do it a different way, then not deliver. Create a distinctly different read with distinctly different choices, yet deliver a winning audition both ways.
Your audition starts when you enter the room and ends you leave the room. Capitalize on your entrance and set them up to love you before you open your mouth.
Bonus
Bring irresistible confidence into EVERY audition. Use a systematic process to create confidence on demand.
Use a proven, systematic framework to prep for auditions, even with very little time - scanning for traps.
Do not "wing it." Use the 5 F's.
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