News for Ali Chen

Living the everyday life of an actor in Los Angeles

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Audition for "Greek" - Ross/Silverberg Casting

This was my first time in this office and everyone was really nice and made me feel comfortable and welcome.

It was a good, solid audition. I went in with a read, got some re-direction, did it again, and was asked to make another adjustment and did it again. I may not get cast because of look but my goal was to have them like my work enough that they call me in again for the future.

Got a call at 11:45 AM for a 2:30 PM audition. There are more and more of these lately. I was told that the sides were on Casting Frontier but I didn't see them there so I headed over a little early to take a look.

Audition for Bud Light - Joe Blake Casting

It'd been years since I'd been in for Joe Blake. Two of my nationals were booked through him and I was just thinking it'd be nice to be called back into his office.

The Session Runner/Camera Operator introduced himself as Spencer and he ran through the group description of what was going to happen in the room for the audition. Back out in the waiting room the sides were posted on the wall but there were no copies.

Now, I have contacts, and also glasses. I find that I don't tend to wear my contacts because they irritate my eyes and make them red and make me blink a lot more. So, I often wear glasses. But it changes my look so whether I wear them depends on what the product is as well has the take on the sell.

On this one I didn't wear them. Can I just say, thank goodness for the iPod Touch? Since there was only one set of sides stuck to the wall, I waited until there was a little break in people gathered around it and typed up the lines on the notepad part of my Touch. Then went and sat down while I looked at the copy.

They have cue cards in the room, but the words are written in different colors. Red, and pink, and sometimes green are really hard to read. In fact, black is even hard for me to read, but I know this about myself so that's why I prepare out in the waiting area.

While everyone else is texting, or reading books, or on the phone, or chatting people up, I'm sitting there running through the copy trying to get as familiar with it as I can so no matter what's thrown at me I can take it and run with it.

I'm glad, because my line was red. There would have been no way I would've been able to read it. Luckily, my work in the waiting room paid off and my read had the colors I was looking for and I could play with it a little because I wasn't so worried about the line.

It's nice to leave feeling good about my work. It's been a good day. Hope to have more like them.