It's pretty crazy though, being out of school and whatnot
because for so long, it was just "take this class so you can take that class which leads to this other class, which leads to this degree..."
everything was planned out for you, and now there's just infinite possibilities.
and absolutely no roadmap.
I've been feeling a bit aimless the past week, which is partly responsible for the lack of posting, I would imagine. Also, I've been getting over a bit of a cold, so there's that. So I guess I have a bit to catch you guys up on. Well let's see: I found out last week that I did not in fact get the after school position that I interviewed for all those weeks back. It seems as if I was "too qualified" for the job and they "wanted to give someone else a chance with the job who could really benefit from the experience". I really wanted to say that I would have benefited extremely well from the experience of having a paycheck, but I was a good boy.
I got the impression that they had all but promised the position to someone else when I came in, interviewed with them, was so freaking awesome that I put a wrench into the whole works. So that's a little feather in my cap, I suppose.
Hmm, what else? I went to a CDW on Saturday (that's Casting Director Workshop, for those of you not in the know). A CDW is a way for actors to meet with Casting Directors, the people who find folks to be in movies, and to show them what they can do outside of the pressures of the audition room. It can also be a good way to find out what CD's look for in auditions, and what they absolutely hate. At least that's the ideal. A lot of times, it's just a way for CD's to make some quick cash and they don't really do a lot. The workshop I went to seemed pretty legit, though. She ran us through some of the projects she's cast, and how she tends to find talent, and then had us do some scenes and whatnot. She paired us up and had us work on sides (that's the portion of a scene that you work with when auditioning) and I learned an interesting nugget. When sides are double spaced, that means you're reading from a sit-com script. Who knew? Anyway, she had each duo do their scene, then gave them some direction. When my partner and I got up and did ours, she said we looked really natural up there and just had us stand closer together and do the scene exactly the same.
I guess that was good, in the sense that she liked what we were doing enough that she didn't want to change it, when she gave everyone else a lot of direction. But on the other hand, while I was performing, I was hearing all kinds of problems with my performance. There is no way we both got it completely right on the first try, and even if we did, then shouldn't she have given us some crazy direction to try to see how we adapted? I just don't understand why she just gave us a "pass" when she worked so much with everyone else. Oh well. I guess I'm just that amazing. Now I just need to show everyone else in this town that.
On the other end of the spectrum, I went to my second acting class with Steve Braun, where I got my ass kicked just a little bit. I've known for awhile that I need to tone down the theatreyness of my acting, because I have a tendency to overemphasize all my lines. And more than that, comedy is my default setting, so I have a hard time just being in the moment. Like my brother Chris would say whenever he was directing me in a film: "Eric! Stop acting, and just say the lines!" And that's what Steve called me out on tonight. Which was really great. I came here to challenge myself and get challenged to become a better actor, and I feel like I'm on the way to doing that.
Now I just need to land an audition.
I've been feeling a bit aimless the past week, which is partly responsible for the lack of posting, I would imagine. Also, I've been getting over a bit of a cold, so there's that. So I guess I have a bit to catch you guys up on. Well let's see: I found out last week that I did not in fact get the after school position that I interviewed for all those weeks back. It seems as if I was "too qualified" for the job and they "wanted to give someone else a chance with the job who could really benefit from the experience". I really wanted to say that I would have benefited extremely well from the experience of having a paycheck, but I was a good boy.
I got the impression that they had all but promised the position to someone else when I came in, interviewed with them, was so freaking awesome that I put a wrench into the whole works. So that's a little feather in my cap, I suppose.
Hmm, what else? I went to a CDW on Saturday (that's Casting Director Workshop, for those of you not in the know). A CDW is a way for actors to meet with Casting Directors, the people who find folks to be in movies, and to show them what they can do outside of the pressures of the audition room. It can also be a good way to find out what CD's look for in auditions, and what they absolutely hate. At least that's the ideal. A lot of times, it's just a way for CD's to make some quick cash and they don't really do a lot. The workshop I went to seemed pretty legit, though. She ran us through some of the projects she's cast, and how she tends to find talent, and then had us do some scenes and whatnot. She paired us up and had us work on sides (that's the portion of a scene that you work with when auditioning) and I learned an interesting nugget. When sides are double spaced, that means you're reading from a sit-com script. Who knew? Anyway, she had each duo do their scene, then gave them some direction. When my partner and I got up and did ours, she said we looked really natural up there and just had us stand closer together and do the scene exactly the same.
I guess that was good, in the sense that she liked what we were doing enough that she didn't want to change it, when she gave everyone else a lot of direction. But on the other hand, while I was performing, I was hearing all kinds of problems with my performance. There is no way we both got it completely right on the first try, and even if we did, then shouldn't she have given us some crazy direction to try to see how we adapted? I just don't understand why she just gave us a "pass" when she worked so much with everyone else. Oh well. I guess I'm just that amazing. Now I just need to show everyone else in this town that.
On the other end of the spectrum, I went to my second acting class with Steve Braun, where I got my ass kicked just a little bit. I've known for awhile that I need to tone down the theatreyness of my acting, because I have a tendency to overemphasize all my lines. And more than that, comedy is my default setting, so I have a hard time just being in the moment. Like my brother Chris would say whenever he was directing me in a film: "Eric! Stop acting, and just say the lines!" And that's what Steve called me out on tonight. Which was really great. I came here to challenge myself and get challenged to become a better actor, and I feel like I'm on the way to doing that.
Now I just need to land an audition.
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