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HOW LONG SHOULD IT TAKE FOR ME TO GET AUDITIONS??
Okay so i just signed with a talent agency october of last year and theyve been emailing me and my mom about auditions and what they have submitted me for the last email they sent me was the 14th last tuesday but have not told me if i have gotten any auditions yet HOW LONG SHOULD I WAIT TO HEAR FROM THEM ABOUT ME GETTING AUDITIONS??? thanks
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Unfortunately, if I'm correct in assuming you mean auditions for acting jobs, none of us could really tell you how long it will take. It could take anywhere from a few weeks to a few years, if you get any at all. Now, I'm not saying you won't get any. Plenty of people get auditions if they're patient enough.
Whether or not you get an audition depends on a few things:
1. How good the agency is at their job.
2. What you look like. (Unfortunately, usually more important than your skills/talents)
3. The quality of your submitted photos/portfolios
4. If the company that receives your portfolio thinks your face will sell their product to their specific target audience
5. If you're a member of the Screen Actors Guild
Here's how the process works:
Your agency sends your portfolio and many others out to producers who are looking for actors. These producers receive hundreds, if not thousands of portfolios. They skim through them, watching for a certain look or appearance, not for talent. They pick out a few hundred people who fit the description they're looking for.
Then they invite these several hundred people to audition. Each and every one of you who is picked gets to sit in a waiting room full of people - all of which look a LOT like you - until it is your turn to go in and audition. You all do the same thing when you're auditioning, and from there the producers pick out a few who they think have the right face/attitude.
From those few people, they separate the SAG members from the pile, and(usually) throw out the rest. Any SAG producer who hires a non-SAG actor has to pay a hefty fine for doing so, because they just hired someone who isn't part of what's basically an actor's union, making sure actors are treated fairly, etc.
Producers don't like to do this because it's a lot of money, and if you aren't a SAG member, you typically haven't played a lead role in anything big. Unfortunately, the only way to BECOME a member of SAG is to play a lead(or at least significant) role in a SAG film.
Basically, you can't work for an SAG producer unless you're in the SAG. But you can't get into the SAG without working for an SAG producer. In other words - this producer has to like you a LOT, think you're great at what you do, and be willing to risk a load of money on you.
So it isn't impossible. It's been done plenty of times before, by every famous(or semi-famous, or even just obscure) actor. But it's tough, and there's no guarantee of success.
I wish you the best of luck in your pursuit.
~Panda
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