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So, I've Got This Idea, Right...
In a couple months I'm going to try out for my schools S-Troupe. S-Troupe is a club at my school of writers, performers, and artists dedicated to the production and performance of original, expressive, written work. Simply put: the members of S-Troupe write, produce and, finally, perform their own poetic, dramatic, but mostly comedic scenes and sketches on stage or on video and film.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZ62GezK6M (That's one of the performance. It's really great)
I really want to do this, because I love just joking around and having a reason just to act completely crazy. I'm a writer and I don't have much acting experience but I really want to do this. I'm not shy at all with my friends and I know I can do it...but when I get in front of people I don't know I tend to be shy and freeze up and I don't want to do that at auditions.
Does anyone have any tips for auditioning for these sort of things, it's sort of like drama club. Is there anything
I can do to prepare myself more? Any excercises or anything. I've never done anything like this, but I want to make it.
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There are some exercises that I use to prepare before I would perform in front of my acting class. You take a deep breathe in, lay your arms flat against your legs, slowly bring them up and cross them behind your head, breathe out and bring them back down slowly. This will relieve the anxiety and tension you are feeling. Always carry your script if you are performing just in case you forget a small word. If you don't have it, it will look extremely bad. Believe you can do and accomplish this. You are just as good as anyone in that room, maybe even better. Continue to say that to yourself. Take a big breathe before you begin and a big one after your done. Don't eat anything before you perform that way you won't get nauseous because you won't have anything in your stomach. Auditions are simple they just watch you and take a few notes. If you take my advice they will write nothing but good things about you. Pick something that is completely your style becasue if it isn't it tends to be harder to get completely in character.
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You need to focus on the writing and be confident in that first. This, more so than the performance is what they are focused on.
The performance certainly counts but if you don't have a quality sketch, poem or dramatic piece for stage, video or film you won't get in. You have to make sure that the meaning and strength of your piece isn't lost due to the quality of film, camcorder, video etc.
You can have a glossy and perfectly edited film segment but if the material is bad or difficult to enjoy with added sound in editing....
Auditions scare a lot of performers but they shouldn't.
What you need to understand is that the people in that room are hinging on every word you have to say and that those words are important. Believe in what you are going to do and do it without thinking of anyone being there but you.
Next, focus on one spot in the room and never make eye contact with those judging you while performing. This is easier if on a stage with lights. Forget they are are there and BECOME your CHARACTER and FORGET ABOUT YOU AND ANYTHING ELSE. Nothing else matters.
Think of what your characters might have been doing offstage and try to bring that onstage or in an audition. When I'm up there I like to think that I'm an important person whom they have come to see for example a senator, president, actor, lecturer and that all that matters is what I have to say/do and that whether or not they're in the room or not when I say it doesn't matter.
Bottom line, you have to block them out of your mind while auditioning and be your character. You also have to have killer material that sets you apart. Writing is 80% of this with performance the other percentage points.
As far as being shy most actors are. All that fades away once you forget about you and your problems and become your character and don't break from it no matter what's going on as they watch you. So, go for it! Break a leg, even two if it works or someone else's leg if you have to ;)
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