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
- Double/triple/quadruply check everything
- Don’t break character when you “think” your done, wait for someone to say “cut”
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.
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