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Backstage: Performers used to have one shot to nail their audition in a studio, but we are now in an age of technology in which actors looking to break into the business may be smart to first shine on the smallest of screens.
“Performers used to have one shot to nail their audition in a studio, but we are now in an age of technology in which actors looking to break into the business may be smart to first shine on the smallest of screens.”
The first line of this article discredits the rest of it. When it comes to live theatre, there is no second take and there is no “we’ll fix it in post.” It shouldn’t matter how well you can sing or dance or perform a monologue, if you can’t do it live, on the first take, and in person, then you probably don’t deserve the gig.
With modern audio and video technology, anybody can put together a fairly impressive audition video. Information on a resume can usually be verified with a phone call, verifying the integrity of an audition tape is probably much harder.
This works in the opposite direction too. An audition that would look and sound great in the audition hall cannot ever be adequately captured, even with the most sophisticated and modern audio and video recording equipment.
It’s live theatre; let’s keep it live.
Perhaps Bill O’Reilly had it right this one time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HyZ5aW76c
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“Performers used to have one shot to nail their audition in a studio, but we are now in an age of technology in which actors looking to break into the business may be smart to first shine on the smallest of screens.”
The first line of this article discredits the rest of it. When it comes to live theatre, there is no second take and there is no “we’ll fix it in post.” It shouldn’t matter how well you can sing or dance or perform a monologue, if you can’t do it live, on the first take, and in person, then you probably don’t deserve the gig.
With modern audio and video technology, anybody can put together a fairly impressive audition video. Information on a resume can usually be verified with a phone call, verifying the integrity of an audition tape is probably much harder.
This works in the opposite direction too. An audition that would look and sound great in the audition hall cannot ever be adequately captured, even with the most sophisticated and modern audio and video recording equipment.
It’s live theatre; let’s keep it live.
Perhaps Bill O’Reilly had it right this one time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HyZ5aW76c
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