MISSION:AUDITION
Step by step...
Step 1: Contact us immediately to get on our list. First come, first served. We only have so many slots available in December to March.
Step 2: You will be connected to our Head Coach who will arrange a 35 minute session for the future.
Step 3: You will be asked to email the text of your edited monologue to your coach ahead of the session. Have the writer and source handy.
Step 4: You will be requested by PayPal to provide payment to reserve your slot.
Step 5: You must be fully memorized on the monologue for the coaching session.
Step 6: The session will take place on Skype or Facetime, so you should have a device with a camera and microphone in a quiet well-lit space where the coach can see and hear you, uninterrupted. You may have others or parents in the room, but they should observe without interruption. You may record the session in any way you wish to save the notes given.
Step 7: You and the coach will work the monologue to improve your connection, honesty, relaxation, focus, fighting-for, and structure. See below...
Step 8: Should you want another 35 minute session to follow-up at a later time on this monologue or another once, simply request that of the coach, or contact us again!
Step 9: If you feel the session did not, in any way, improve your work, contact us to ask for a full refund.
The Magic of 35 Minutes
There are many simple mistakes actors make in presenting audition monologues that are easily avoided. And... there are many complex choices actors face in presenting audition monologues that are fun to solve.
The session is designed to check-list through the simple mistakes and move to the complex choices that make acting unique, powerful, engaging and show your ability to train at a high level.
Our coaching is not "audition technique." It is acting technique applied to monologues that show you CAN ACT. Rather than bothering with formal tricks or false fronts, Mission:Audition gets to the heart of who YOU are, WHO you are talking to, and what you are ASKING OF THEM. When you have authenticity, clarity, intelligence, and heart in the playing of the monologue then you will already be WAY AHEAD of most others who audition...
The simple mistakes are:
: Approaching from fear rather than imagination.
: Using unnecessary tension and force.
: Locking down your body, gesture, tone, and breath.
: Locking up your emotion, need, and effort in a general state.
: Not having a clear focal layout and focal journey.
: Working from the text instead of the behavior of a vivid imaginary partner.
: Going too fast.
: Not having a human and important reason you are speaking.
: Having no structure that shows how you develop from a precise beginning through a engaging middle to a clear and emotional end.