Thursday, September 26, 2013

Commercial Audition Tip #1

Tip #1- Always look for an opportunity to show your personality in your commercial audition.

Have you ever wondered what it was about the "Progressive Lady" or the "Glorified Popeyes Chicken Lady", that made them book the job and become the face of those commercials?


It's because they brought their personalities.  They brought themselves to the audition!  It's true!  Noone can do you better than you!  The progressive lady, I'm sure brought her quirky, off beat personality to that room.  It's probably not even an act!  That is probably who she is in real life.  And the Glorified Popeyes lady, is a true Sistagirl!  And she brings it out in every commercial!

So, I ask...what is that little thing that you do or say that makes you unique?  Think about it...

That thing is most likely the very thing you can use in each and every audition to make you standout.

I recall being in the audition room for a Lottery Commercial.  I walked in the small room to a startling group of maybe 8-10 people (producing team).  This totally through me off.  It was the first audition!  Usually I see those many people on a call back.  But nope.  They were all their cramped together in that small room.  On my first take I completely flubbed the lines.  They'd also chosen to light the room with all of the lights they could find in the city!!! So I was sweating puddles.  This was going bad fast.  It was my second take (they were nice enough, despite the sweat puddles underneath my arms and running make-up) to let me do another take. So I began reading the copy again, I was at the start of a new flub over one word that just wouldn't come out right, and out of nowhere, the real me comes out!  I was trying to say the word, but "JESUS CHRIST!" came out in a very flabbergasted, sistagirl kinda way.  A sista whose just given up!  All 8-10 of the producing team and the casting director burst out laughing as I finished the line with the same attitude as I had when I'd called out God's son! I was so for sure I hadn't book that job.

BUT, I did.  ME.  THE REAL ME booked it!

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