2nd Acting Class

My second acting class (which was last week) was a little harder than my first one. This time my commercial was for a facial cleanser. I auditioned it the first time without any motions - just basically talking into the camera. Barbara told me that I have a very commercial side to me. That she thinks I could sell anything, just the way I am with my personality and on-camera. But that I should try and come up with some motions for the second time through. She even gave some tips.

For the second time through I pretended I was at a sleepover talking to my friends about my new facial cleanser, while I am putting on. It turned out to be a disaster lol. Barbara said I just need to be natural and concentrate on that. I was upset about messing it up but I tried to shake it off. It's just one of those things. Not all of them are going to be perfect. And now is the time to mess up and learn what NOT to do, while I'm in class and not out on a real audition. So I just focused on putting it behind me for this week and learning from my mistakes.

Even though I was a little upset about messing it up it was still a great learning experience, which is what it is supposed to be. Barbara told us that next week (which is actually this week now) she'll be there but there will also be another person - a producer - at class to help give some more insight into our auditions. Having a producer there makes me a little nervous but excited too. I can't wait to hear what he/she has to say, so that I can improve even more.

We were also given the assignment for this week of writing our own 15-30 second commercial to audition. It makes it nicer because we can practice it all week long and take it back to class perfect. But I came back trying to figure out what to write about. I want it to be something good. I decided to write about gum because I love gum! So I wrote my commercial about my favorite kind of gum "Extra Fruit Sensations (Berry Smoothie)". I gave it some motions and have been practicing it all week long. I have it memorized and hope that it will go smoothly. As suggested by my sister, I taped myself performing the commercial and put it up for people to see. It is below..let me know what you think. I hope you guys like it! :)