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9 Preparation Tips to Help Deliver Your Best Commercial Audition

When you arrive at your audition, enter the waiting area and start to prepare for your audition. If you don’t know how to “be” and what to do in that war zone, then your audition prep could be less effective then you are cable of. Waiting with a dozen actors for an hour or being rushed in with little or no preparation and/or sometimes getting very little or confusing direction can be frustrating and is not helpful for actors to do their best. Here are some tips that can help to feel confident, prepared and empowered during your next commercial audition.  Click HERE to read Carolyne Barry's full article in Backstage!

SAG Can Wait

REPOST FROM 2012.  I thought now more then ever this was relevant so I'm moving it to the front of the line!

There is a tendency for young actors to think they need to get into the union right away.  The truth is there are a ton of non union opportunities out there for you to build your reel, resume, and experience with.  Once you join the union there is no going back.  There is of course Fi-Core (financial core)... but that can be tricky and is not for everyone (if you don't know what that is, it's when you can do both Union and NonUnion work... but it's discouraged heavily by the union and you give up some of your union rights to do this.  Google it for sure, it's good to know about).

So fi-core aside, you really want to wait and make sure you've taken complete advantage of your non union status before jumping into the "big league".  The non union talent pool isn't as big, and again, these can be great opportunities and learning experiences.  Many times you can submit yourself via LA casting (among other places) and don't even need an agent.  So don't be in a hurry, take your time and get some gigs under your belt.  Just something to think about while strategizing your career.
- Scott

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MASTER TALENT TEACHER VIDEOS

 I rarely update this blog, but keep it up since google tells me it still get's many visits.  Also the info is all still very valid. 

Recently commercial acting coach Carolyne Barry created an online teaching series that I suggest everyone takes a look at.  She had me featured on one of them... it's called Why you don't book the commercial (even though you did everything "right")

Check it out along with many other helpful videos at this link. Master Talent Teachers