0079: Some Tough Love: Auditions Aren’t About You

Raw transcript:

I’m just gonna be blunt about this
because it feels as though
it needs to be said and here it is
auditions are not about you
okay they’re not now who they are about
I will discuss coming up next in this
edition of the vo Heroes podcast
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we spend so much time learning about
auditioning learning how to record well
how to act how to do The Voice work well
everything around uh looking at the
script or looking at the copy uh
figuring out for ourselves how do we
bring ourselves to the part I teach
these things how do we bring ourselves
to the party how do we have our brand
really inform the performance we we we
guess what
the audition isn’t about
us it isn’t about you it isn’t about me
the audition is about whoever is
offering the work
it’s about solving their problem
we have our own problems to solve when
it comes to script analysis when it
comes to cold reading when it comes to
choices that we make when we do our
performances whether it’s on camera or
on microphone we have all of that stuff
but in the end
if you don’t approach an audition as
though it’s a personal affront or a a
personal responsibility that is
overwhelming or you’re overworked or all
of these things that can creep in
when it just gets to be too much if we
just take a moment step back and
remember
that when we audition we are essentially
engaged in
a job interview we’re essentially
engaged in the same thing that anybody
who is applying for a job in any other
business is doing
now we happen to
apply for jobs a lot more often than
people who spend years at a company and
they have to go to another company or
want to go to another company you know
maybe people will interview for a job I
don’t know five or ten times in their
lives maybe more we uh can audition five
or ten times a day if we’re doing voice
over right so the the whole point here
is make it about your potential
production partner the casting office
the product the producer the director
the script the the writer the other
actors make it about anything but
yourself and you’ll save yourself so
much mental anguish
and it might even lead to better
solutions for your choices for what you
wear for how you speak for what you say
for the choices that you make when you
interact with your your other voices or
your other actors
you’re you’re you’re removing the onus
of oh
this is all me that is why do they do
this to me nobody’s doing anything to
you
you’re providing a potential solution
for someone else
auditions are not about you
they’re about who you can solve a
problem for
does that make sense let me know in the
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be careful anyway thanks so much for
watching and for listening I’m David H
Lawrence the 17th and I’ll see you in
the next episode of the vo Heroes
podcast
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