Alra have added a new stage/point in the audition process in which they get you in front of the camera, I think this is so they can see how your look portrays onto a TV screen (after all it is a school that specialises in TV acting)
You don't have to actually act Infront of camera but a few questions are asked like 'what are you interested in' or 'give me an interesting fact about yourself' I think with questions like this it's best if you can sort of stay away from the whole acting road, let them into something else about you, it might be skiing or you see yourself as an adrenaline junkie because you've done sky diving and freestyle skiing or whatever!
A few things to remember whilst your on camera:
-Don't look into the lens of the camera unless your asked too, otherwise just pretend it isn't there
-Take any hair out of your face
-Keep your eye level centred not to high and not to low otherwise the camera will lose your eyes and just see eye lids (maybe try this on a camera of your rown and see what your like)
- Get rid of distracting habits - maybe when your nervous your itch your face, play with your hair, overly blink, lick your lips, pick your nose and eat it....whatever weird habit stop it because the camera picks up everything and enhances it by 10!
Friday, 11 September 2015
Lamda audition
LAMDA AUDITION
This audition was one of the more simplest ones which I didn't really expect ...similar to the RADA audition.
I got the train to London and managed to find my way to lamda via the tube and my maps on my iPhone and it was pretty easy to find so if your worrying about that... Don't.
I arrived at my Lamda audition half an hour early, I think it's good that if your audition is at 9 you have it in your head that it's actually at half 8 and plan that way so there's always that half an hour of space.
Once inside the building I met another 6/7 auditionees many of them where actually from around Europe which was something new, and we where taken to the canteen by 2 current students who where really nice. It's actually at the LAMDA audition that I learnt one student had auditioned for 5 years in a row without success so it goes to show persistence is key!
We then got moved up to wait in a corridor and one by one got taken into a mini theatre in which I was greeted by a panel of Two teachers who just simply asked for the name of my plays and said begin when your ready and once you have done one move onto the next, I did so and that was that. They thanked me and I left - I was abit deflated as I sort of expected abit more from lamda, maybe abit of direction or questioning your choices but non of this really happened it was in and out.
Next I was taken to a room where there was one student and a member of staff from admin, they where very relaxed and just asked me a few questions. Because they where similar age they made you feel a lot more comfortable so conversation flowed. They asked questions like what I was up to at the minuite and the big question 'what would you do with your gap year if you weren't to get in' so if have an answer prepared for this question as it seems to come up a lot.
After 5 minutes in the interview it was done and I was on my way back to Manchester all in the space of about 2 hours!
This audition was one of the more simplest ones which I didn't really expect ...similar to the RADA audition.
I got the train to London and managed to find my way to lamda via the tube and my maps on my iPhone and it was pretty easy to find so if your worrying about that... Don't.
I arrived at my Lamda audition half an hour early, I think it's good that if your audition is at 9 you have it in your head that it's actually at half 8 and plan that way so there's always that half an hour of space.
Once inside the building I met another 6/7 auditionees many of them where actually from around Europe which was something new, and we where taken to the canteen by 2 current students who where really nice. It's actually at the LAMDA audition that I learnt one student had auditioned for 5 years in a row without success so it goes to show persistence is key!
We then got moved up to wait in a corridor and one by one got taken into a mini theatre in which I was greeted by a panel of Two teachers who just simply asked for the name of my plays and said begin when your ready and once you have done one move onto the next, I did so and that was that. They thanked me and I left - I was abit deflated as I sort of expected abit more from lamda, maybe abit of direction or questioning your choices but non of this really happened it was in and out.
Next I was taken to a room where there was one student and a member of staff from admin, they where very relaxed and just asked me a few questions. Because they where similar age they made you feel a lot more comfortable so conversation flowed. They asked questions like what I was up to at the minuite and the big question 'what would you do with your gap year if you weren't to get in' so if have an answer prepared for this question as it seems to come up a lot.
After 5 minutes in the interview it was done and I was on my way back to Manchester all in the space of about 2 hours!
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