30 Day Ninja Self Tape Challenge

Through my creative journey, I've joined a few groups, one of which is called Self Management For Actors run by Bonnie Gillespie, a casting director from Los Angeles. She offers classes and lectures on how to manage your acting career and how to 'tier up' as an actor. More on that another time. Well, one of her assignments was to learn how to self-tape quickly and efficiently so if you obtained an audition that required self-taping, you would be proficient at creating a self-tape for submission. This assignment called for self-taping once a day, every day for 30 days! So I said - challenge accepted!

Since this was every day for 30-days challenge, I thought I would make it easier by making a list of about 30 to 35 different things I could self-tape, including monologues, stories, reading passages, etc. Then I placed these all in a basket and would pull one out and do that activity.

Some of the self-tape turned out ok, some really did not. Those that did not are going to stay 'in the can'! Watching them again now, yeah, some of them are not too great.

So today I will share one about a story from my life. This was an actual event that occurred and I hope it makes you smile. Enjoy!