Booking Your Self-Submitted Audition, Part 4 of 5

Hi everyone,
Well, we have talked about headshots and resumes. We’ve talked about online submission services. Last week we talked about demo reels. But there’s one element that we haven’t discussed yet that I really would like to address because it’s near and dear to my heart: training. Quality training. My goodness, if you really want to go after this, you want to separate yourself from the pack. People want this at too cheap a price. They do. They want it for egocentric reasons. A good deal of people do. It’s for fame and money, so they don’t want to go invest. They want it quickly, now.
So they want to take workshops. They want to take intensives. They want to take on camera classes. And those things have their value, they do. But our training here in San Francisco, for example – and this is not an infomercial for us – this is a fact. This is world-class training. It is a huge commitment of time, energy, money, and I realize a lot of you are out there going, “I don’t want to do that.” No problem. We’re clear up front: we are not for everybody.
This school, this level of commitment is for people that really do want their best shot at this happening. In other words, they’re seeing the big picture. It’s not the sprint; it’s the long race. It’s the marathon. It’s not somebody who just wants to get a commercial or a nice little guest spot and have a little chance at something and maybe fame, and a miracle falls from the sky and they get a perfect part.
That can happen, but this type of training is for people who literally would like to be acting at their dying breath, who would like to be able to work in film, theater, television at the highest level and be confident and empowered. So on your resume under training, you have either invested or you have not. You either have something that you’re proud of or not. You either have something that really reflects well in your commitment to your dream or not. And that’s on you.
I’m a huge advocate for having the best training possible because it’s that competitive, and there are that many people who are sparkly and cool and wonderful on the surface. I used to say that I didn’t feel like I really had much competition, not because there weren’t people way cooler. There were. They were way prettier, more handsome, whatever – hundreds of thousands of them. That’s not my point. My point is I felt like I had hardly any competition because of three reasons: 1. How badly I wanted it, 2. How hard I worked, and 3. The fact that I had world-class training.
I studied with Sanford Meisner. I know how blessed I was, but there are other teachers out there on this planet who are really, really good at what they do. I mean world-class. You want to try to find them, and then when you have that on your resume, you really did go through it. You really have earned it, and that speaks volumes.
Our reputation in the Bay Area, for example, is extremely solid with the casting directors, the directors, the producers. I know what our reputation is, and our people are beautiful ambassadors on behalf of that. So it’s a very empowering thing when you’ve really made that kind of investment. You really do know what you’re doing. You really are that skilled. You really are that good at your job. It just shows. So the importance of training, not to just have something to throw on your resume, is something to think about.
 
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Alright, we’ll see you next week. We’ll see what we can advance for you. Thanks for joining us.