Friday, June 25, 2010

Voice over-auditions:

Man, I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (oooooo....ooo.oooooo and ...ooooo) ready to book a voice-over. I need to keep on doing tongue twisters to better enuciate my words

1. McDonalds- Fun stuff...I got to do a Chris Rock/Will Smith over-exaggeration kind of voice and have some fun with this

2. McDonalds- A little more difficult- I messed up a couple times on this one. I was reading with a partner and think I got a little nervous. I got to play Bacon...The chill urban guy until he realizes there is steak on the grill right next to him....STEAK!

Yes sir! McDonalds does love some black folk!

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, I had the opportunity to volunteer under CBS Casting Vice-President Fern Orenstein and help cast their Diversity Showcase. It was so FunkyFunkyFresh (I had to throw an extra Funky on that!) to see other actors act out their one minute monologues and gauge if they would be right for parts on "The Young and the Restless" or "The Bold and the Beautiful". Although sometimes it seems elementary to say- "It is always important for everything we as people do to reflect the people that we inherently are". Even when playing a different character, I think we as actors are are doing the character a disservice if we completely seperate ourselves from the character.

What about a character resonates with who we are? (Sorry for getting SuperDuperMario Philosophcal/Psychological on you...but I wonder)

Audition for MANswers/ SPIKE TV...Hahaha- If anyone has never seen this show, it is a testosterone driven-beach babe-show on Spike! Audition went well- not really an audition...more of an interview. Did a little improv, but not much

Print Go-See @ Alice Ellis Casting on Melrose. The Look for this was college/edgy/fashion...I did my best!

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Voice- Over Auditions for Western Union:

1) Banking service- ahaha. This was fun- I got to use the voice of an energetic-affable-happy-go-lucky-club-goer chillin out with his nerdy friend.

2) Western Union- I think I need to work on my enunciation a little more...I never noticed how hard it is to say "Western Union"

Monday, June 14, 2010

Callback for Horizon! Awesome! I got to meet David Cage, the creator of Heavy Rain and audition for him. He told me to try it a different way and I did my best to adjust what I had rehearsed. This would be a really fun project- I mean, what actor wouldn't want to play a character in a video game?

Audition for a promo for Tru TV @ Orly Sitowitz and Stacey Pianko Casting- this was fun! I got to be interviewed about how much I love chocolate and how much I need affordable insurance- VERY REAL! : )

Friday, June 11, 2010

Sooo...My mom's birthday is tomorrow- Happy Birthday mom!!! But I have an audition....UH OH- Fortunately the casting director is allowing me to send in a video-tape. The project is for a feature film called "Punch Buggy" about an Iraq war veteran suffering from post traumatic stress-disorder. Hopefully, I will get a callback

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Audition for "Horizon", a new video-game by David Cage, the creator of "Heavy Rain". This is probably the "most-like-a-theatre" (see how I tried to make that an adjective) that I have ever had. I did some intense preparation beforehand and felt really good about the direction that I was heading. At the audition, I realized "Hey...I left my binder with headshots 30 minutes away...at home". Luckily, I keep a few extras in my car. I did however, have to drive to Kinko's and print some resumes. As soon as I ran up the stairs to the audition, duh duh duhhhh- it was my turn.

Even though I was a little out of breath, I put a smile on and did my best to "Make it Happen-Captain". Through God's favor, I hope to be back for a callback!

2nd audition for a feature film entitled bro @ CBS in Studio City. I did my best to prepare for this as well. I spent some time just listening to some gangster rap to get an "I run things and don't look at me attitude"...Told you I'd be back in for another gangster role. This audition...uh, "not so much".

May 25, 2010

Voice-over audition in-house

Things have been kinda slow lately...Let's see if things pick up in June

Saturday, May 29 2010

Audition in Santa Monica "White Space" Poetry. This project is about a deaf poet who has a tremendous heart and does his best to reflect his art. I auditioned for the role of a poet- not too big of stretch (I've been writing a lot lately). Fun audition - got to read one of my new poems.

After the audition, I drove to Crenshaw to help Mr. Reggie Jones-Sawyer campaign for State Assembly person.