VO Audition in NoHo
Last week was a blur of auditioning, starting with a TMZ-style voice-over audition. Pretty straightforward, except for the rapid-fire nature of the readings. Holy crap. I walked into a room full of guys waiting to be heard, which is not uncommon, but the producer/director in charge was running us through at about two minutes apiece. They called me in, didn’t even want me to slate (in industry lingo, that’s where you say your name, and sometimes the role you’re reading, before the audition so they have a kind of meta-tag to identify your clip amidst a tape full of them), slapped headphones on and pointed for me to begin. I read through four pages of short, snarky quips, they thanked me, and I was out. Whoosh! In the time I was in the little room, another half-dozen guys had shown up. I do not envy the playback.
