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Deirdre · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:43 am Post subject: Qualifying Auditions

Is an audition really necessary for a commercial in which your character speaks the lines:

"Hi, Carl."

"Oops."

Just askin'.
I wonder how many scores of ladies were asked to submit an audition for this.
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Lizden · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:46 am Post subject:

No.

And I wasn't asked....just sayin' Get Lost

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ConnieTerwilliger · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:14 am Post subject:

I've done some similar auditions recently. I usually provide 5 or 6 completely different styles of delivery and/or voices. A nice resuse check arrived for one of the spots recently, so for the time it takes to crank out 6 reads on two short lines, I'll usually do it.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:32 am Post subject:

The qualifier is ..............is it worth it? And dat mean amellican dorrar.

Lee Gordon · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:12 am Post subject:

The kicker is when they change the copy to:

"Hi Fred."

"Oops."

... and do a new set of auditions. Shocked

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Lizden · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:07 am Post subject:

Well...see, Connie....then it IS worth it! Laugh

Yay 4 U!!!!
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CarynClark · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:27 am Post subject:

Lee made me laugh... so true.

I'm with Connie... I do several reads and turn it in. I don't know if it's necessary, but I do auditions like this.
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paddyo · CM Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 975 Location: New York City

I recently went on an audition for one line.
Went in gave it three different reads. Casting director gave me an adjustment. Did that.
Got a call back.
Came back.. Now more people on the other side of the glass; director of commercial, etc..
Gave them three different reads of the same line. Gave me direction. Did it again. We laughed.
I didn't get it but the recording session was the next day. I wondered why they wouldn't just take one of the lines from the person who booked it.

Was it worth it? Yep. Casting director called me that evening to tell me they loved me but went with a deeper voice. Today, casting director called me in for an audition on a union job for Tuesday.

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bobbinbeamo · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:51 pm Post subject:

A necessary evil, I guess. What we must do to get rich quick as voiceover artistes.
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