Video of Acting Auditions for Film or TV
My daughter just got an audition request from a casting director where the acting auditions must be submitted on video. This is for a theatrical audition (see “Do You Know What Theatrical Acting Auditions Are” for more on this topic) for a feature film.
We’ve created a number of videos of acting auditions since we’ve been in Los Angeles. It is a little more work than just showing up in person for the audition, but there are some advantages.
Creating videos of acting auditions is fairly common for actors not living in the LA area. It is less common for most of us in the LA area, though it seems like it has become more common lately. So many projects are being filmed in places other than LA these days.
We’ve created videos of acting auditions in various ways when they’ve been requested. We’ve created videos of acting auditions ourselves, had friends help us create them, paid acting coaches and teachers to create them for us, and gone into a small studio to have them created.
If you pay someone to do it for you, it can be expensive, but the quality of the resulting video is likely to be quite good.
Some of our friends are good at creating audition videos at home. If you have a friend who has good equipment and is into creating videos, they might be willing to do it for you for free.
With a little practice and some decent equipment, you can create good videos of acting auditions yourself.
So, what choices do you have when submitting videos of acting auditions? Should you create your own audition videos? Or should you pay someone to create an audition video for you? You really have to weigh the pros and cons.
If you’ve gotten a request to submit an audition video, you are probably wondering “How Do You Create Videos of Acting Auditions to Submit to Casting Directors?”
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