God’s favorite idiot - mock audition

I wrote today, the 11th of December, a few days after the course ended, to reflect on and consider not only what it meant to do the course but also what I’ve achieved.

The confidence both in acting and speaking

It’s funny; you don't wanna be under-confident but you don’t wanna be over either. And I think I was slightly over-confident in one of the ‘takes’ and smiled, now what I was smiling at was the director laughing at my actions, which I’ll be frank, I like amusing people, except I was meant to be acting not being a comedian!

That’s just my perspective, you can be the judge of that take.

The nerves

I didn’t get nervous, I was actually thinking of trying an Irish accent on, I didn’t. The reason I was practising in an Irish accent was A) I feel that I remember my lines better and B) it seems to speed up my processing speed of what's going on, this may be due to adding one more layer of complexity that in turn would when I was speaking ‘normally it would give me a little bit more time to ‘read and react’ to the situations that arose.

KISS

Another thing as my Aunt would say - Keep it simple stupid. Now in the theatre you've gotta really be ‘full and expressionful’ (don’t think that’s a word) whereas in TV/movies, it’s all the ‘direction and angles’ so you need much less, hence why I wanted to add that comment in. That’s how I feel anyway, people might have other opinions.

Mark’s words

My teacher for the 8 weeks, said at the start, middle and end, ‘You’ve got to find the truth’, it took me the whole of the 8 weeks to understand what he meant.

My description of it is, the ability to have a persona in a role yet fit into how you want to portray it in you… It probably didn’t help you at all, but then again you have to do the course yourself and let yourself discover your truth.

The good mock take ~ let me know what you think.

Thank you to Brave Studio 

I will certainly be doing the scene studies course, however, I’ll more than likely be doing it in the second half of the year as we are Takin on Tassie in 2025, smack bang in the middle of everything, I’m also interested in a vocal course or the US accent course, so I’ll be back there next year!

On this, I've felt all these acting courses have aided me to be a better speaker, I think It’s just the more confidence.

You know what they say, ‘CONFIDENCE IS KEY’ and I agree.

Till next time.

TQ