You come to the audition totally prepared, headshot and resume in hand, dressed to kill. You enter the room and nail the copy. You get great feedback from the everyone and they ask you to do a few more takes, which you also nail. It couldn’t have gone better! They even gave you the dates again to confirm you are available. You leave the session floating on a cloud, thinking “That part is mine, I can feel it!”
And then…you wait. Days go by and suddenly the shoot date is around the corner but still nothing. “I paid my cell phone bill, right?” you wonder. Then you ask your friend to call you to make sure the phone works. “Yeah, okay, thanks.” But it’s still crickets from casting.
So what went wrong? Why didn’t you get the part? What really happens after the audition? Well, once you leave the room, let’s just say the politics begin.
The bigger the project, the more cooks there are in the kitchen and all of them have their own idea of who they think is right for the part. For a commercial, the cooks (or clients) can include the production company (who usually hires casting), the advertising agency, and the main company who ultimately hires everyone. Suffice to say,
You come to the audition totally prepared, headshot and resume in hand, dressed to kill. You enter the room and nail the copy. You get great feedback from the everyone and they ask you to do a few more takes, which you also nail. It couldn’t have gone better! They even gave you the dates again to confirm you are available. You leave the session floating on a cloud, thinking “That part is mine, I can feel it!”
And then…you wait. Days go by and suddenly the shoot date is around the corner but still nothing. “I paid my cell phone bill, right?” you wonder. Then you ask your friend to call you to make sure the phone works. “Yeah, okay, thanks.” But it’s still crickets from casting.
So what went wrong? Why didn’t you get the part? What really happens after the audition? Well, once you leave the room, let’s just say the politics begin.
The bigger the project, the more cooks there are in the kitchen and all of them have their own idea of who they think is right for the part. For a commercial, the cooks (or clients) can include the production company (who usually hires casting), the advertising agency, and the main company who ultimately hires everyone. Suffice to say,
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