First Production Meeting for The Between

Posted on April 28, 2008

Last Friday (April 25th) was the first production meeting for The Between. We all met the house of Keith Wilson. Everyone there was great, very nice and a friendly atmosphere.

I cant give you a play by play because it some somewhat hectic, and there was allot to absorb. We started by going over the scene by scene breakdown. After a few scenes it was voted to move just to the day to day breakdown pending a new format for the scene by scene breakdown.

I love learning how its done. Or one of the ways its done. Every detail was covered. We discussed the material that would be used on the floor when one of the characters was crawling across the surface. We discussed how to properly suspend the actors for various scene’s involving hanging (not noose, but … well you’ll get it when you see the movie).

Unfortunately I waited until today to write this post, so many of the details are now lost.  I’ll do better next time.

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My First Call Back

Posted on April 20, 2008

Well, the audition on Friday was good enough that I’ve been called back. Or maybe they just call everyone back, I’m not sure what the standard procedure is on these things.

They have expanded the scene’s we will potentially be reading for, all the same character.

These next few days are going to be fun. I’ll be updating this post regarding the callbacks when i know more.

*update 2008.04.23 @ 1:12pm: Today is the big day. I have math class tonight, after which I’ll be heading straight over to the call back. I’ve had only a few butterfly moments today. Regardless, I’m still calm.

*update 2008.04.23 @ 11:45pm: I’m back! What an experience.

First of all, lets get it over with. I did pretty well; with one glaring exception. An exception that kinda-sorta invalidates the “pretty well” claim.

When I was called in to audition, they had me do the 3rd of three sides they had provided for the barista character. This is a scene I was excited to do because it actually had some emotion (scared) involved. And while I’m traditionally scared (ironic I know) of scene’s that require emotion, I did kinda figure something out yesterday that seemed to work. I felt confident.

Much to my horror, about 3/4ths the way through the scene, I found that I was done, but the other actors were not. As it turns out, I somehow missed printing the second page of the scene. An exceptionally amature mistake. The cherry on top is that when I “thought” the scene was over, i kinda broke character and … yeah, kinda a mess.

I guess I can kinda forgive myself a little because after realizing I was missing something I went back into character … kinda.

Awkward.

How did that happen? Well a few of the sides that were emailed had a generic cover-page on them that had stuff like “name of project” and “name of first writer” etc. And I didn’t want to waste paper, so I thought I’d just select the pages to print in the Print Dialogue box. And by selecting them myself I missed the whole “page 3″ thing that happened to be present in that side.

Regardless of how it happened, its my fault. A real actor (which is what I’m striving for) would have carefully reviewed and double checked everything to be certain they had everything in order. The good news is that this experience will always be there to remind me to double/triple/quadruply check everything.

Lessons learned/reinforced

To end on a good note. I met a lot of really nice people. All the other actors I talked to were really nice and fun to visit with. I broke up my practicing with mingling. I think I did well on the “your there to audition, not to socialize rule.” – this audition was kind of an exception just because I stayed after.

My First Audition Day; Calm, Rested.

Posted on April 18, 2008

Today I will be auditioning for The Between. I’m excited … I think I am anyway. If I were to be fully honest (which suggests I’m not always honest) I would say that I really am not feeling all that much. Which doesn’t mean I’m not feeling anything, but its just not adversely affecting me.

Some people report sleepless nights just before an audition. I slept just fine last night. Nothing out of the ordinary.

My hope is that this seemingly calm and collected state can be retained throughout the audition process. I tend to shake like a leaf when i get up in front of everyone, so this journey of discovery is not quite over.

I’ll be leaving from work to go directly over to the audition. I have the map printed out. I have my two Headshot/resume’s that they will need. I have my “wardrobe” – which consists of my nerdy glasses, a plain white t-shirt, my leather belt with the skull and web, and my brown/tan Etnies.

*Update 2008.04.18 @ 3:42pm: Uh-oh, over the last half hour, I’ve had increasing hits of “the butterfly” – which would be that flitty feeling in my stomach. I’m not aware of any conscious thoughts causing, probably my subconscious breaking down or something.

*Update 2008.04.18 @ 7:42pm: Bam! Done deal. Alright, so the audition went great. Why? Well, I didn’t screw up the lines, i didn’t have long awkward pauses where I looked around and thought to myself “oh crap oh crap, I’m not supposed to be doing this!”, and I was only kinda awkward once I was through. Also, i didn’t get butterfly stomachy befor-hand, and didn’t start shaking until about half way through the scene.

I think they liked what I did. Partway through my schpeel Craig McMahon reacted to something I did. It was a good reaction, but part of me was wanting to look/listen/stop; luckily my practicing took over and I continued without ruining my presentation (which would be my audition).

Also I was finally able to meet Craig McMahon, so no longer is he a little 48×48 pixel image on the other end of the message board. :) Very nice guy. And I was able to meet Elizabeth DaSilva, and Matt Hyne? (i hope i got that last name right, sorry.)

Overall, for a first audition, it was awesome. I don’t think I could have had a better experience. Hopefully they’ll find my performance appealing enough to put it in their movie. We’ll find out in a week or so.

Auditions for The Between

Posted on April 13, 2008

The auditions for The Between is happening this week on Wednesday and Friday. I cant wait. It’ll be my first audition ever, so who knows what will happen, I’ve never been in that situation before.

I’m auditioning for a small side role, but I’m stoked regardless.
I’ll be going to Fridays auditions.

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Exciting Things Ahead

Posted on April 13, 2008

I have the opportunity to work with Jimmy Flowers and Craig McMahon on their respective projects (The Between and Crypt).

Preproduction is under way, and its really fun to be a part of it all. I don’t want to give away details or anything so everything I post about this will be really vague and sketchy (at least until i get a better feel for what we are allowed to reveal and what we are not to reveal).

I wish I could just quit my job and work full time on these projects, because its exactly what I want to do with Get Well Patric (a project I’ve yet to talk about on my site). But all things in due time.

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Jimmy Flowers Beginner Class Is Over

Posted on April 11, 2008

Well its been an amazing 6 weeks. I just finished (yesterday) Jimmy Flowers 5 week course beginning course. The class was awesome. The students I met there are my friends, we had a great time. And being that I’m probably one of the most shy people ever (okay, not EVER, but it was a huge road block for me at previous attempts at acting classes) I found the environment to be one that I could relax and let go of my inhibitions.

I think back on how I came into acting (a random myspace message to a certain Diedre Chatman) and how I met Jimmy Flowers (at the afterparty for Legions crew members of which i semi-qualified for) – and i think about the class and all it has offered me. Thank you, really really thank you.

I’m very excited to see where this all leads, and cant wait to start the Advanced classes that Jimmy Flowers is offering.

Later all.

-Stephen Moon

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