Pre-screen audition season is upon us. For most students auditioning for BFA musical theatre or acting programs, recording and submitting pre-screen audition video clips with a monologue, song, and/or dance material is the first step to securing a college audition slot at their dream program.
In recent years, the pre-screen has become incredibly popular, with new college programs adding themselves to the pre-screen list every year. This year alone, we saw programs like Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California’s new BFA in contemporary musical theater become “pre-screen schools” (not to mention a pilot music theater supplement video option at Northwestern).
As you prepare for your filming session, here are eight tips for getting the most out of your pre-screen college audition video.
1. Plan out the shoot.One of the worst feelings is to finish filming and to realize you forgot an introduction video requirement or didn’t film a monologue or song in the specific way a school requested. If you forget something, it’s very important that you re-shoot.
Colleges receive hundreds to thousands of pre-screen videos and you don’t want to not pass a pre-screen because you did
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