self-tape
Actor's home recording
A self-tape is an audition video actors record themselves and submit electronically, rather than performing in person.
The practice became standard in film and television casting, especially after the pandemic normalized remote auditions: I have three self-tapes due by Friday.
As a verb, to self-tape is to record such an audition: She self-taped for the lead role.
Shaping through liquid form
- callbackFollow-up audition invitation
- sidesLateral edges or teams
- slateFissile metamorphic rock
- readerOne who peruses text
submission · role · agent · booking · actor · monologue · scene · performance
Art of illuminating spaces
- backdropRear stage scenery
- framingStructural or contextual shaping
- tripodStabilizing support structure
- ring lightCircular photography illuminator
eyeline · sound · microphone · camera · smartphone · editing · upload · file size
Committing information to recall
- rehearsalPre-performance practice session
- takesCaptures or acquires
- playbackReproducing recorded media
- retakeAttempt something again
deadline · notes · wardrobe · preparation · practice · timing · blocking · mark
Failure or decomposition
- representationDepiction or likeness
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
- televisionBroadcast viewing device
- filmMovie or coating
streaming · series · pilot season · episodic · theatrical · commercial · voiceover · union
casting
Shaping through liquid form
reader · submission · role · agent · booking · actor · monologue · scene · performance · demo
lighting
Art of illuminating spaces
- backdropRear stage scenery
- framingStructural or contextual shaping
- tripodStabilizing support structure
ring light · eyeline · sound · microphone · camera · smartphone · editing · upload · file size · resolution
memorization
Committing information to recall
- rehearsalPre-performance practice session
- takesCaptures or acquires
- playbackReproducing recorded media
retake · deadline · notes · wardrobe · preparation · practice · timing · blocking · mark · character work
breakdown
Failure or decomposition
- representationDepiction or likeness
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
- televisionBroadcast viewing device
film · streaming · series · pilot season · episodic · theatrical · commercial · voiceover · union · SAG-AFTRA
- audition materialsheadshot, resume, monologue, demo reel, sides
- audition termscasting director, headshot, callback, callbacks, casting calls
- Auditionscold read, sides, headshot, tryout, tryouts
- audition typescallback, screen test, cold read, monologue, scene work
self-tapelive audition
Unrecorded talent evaluation
live reading · callback · screen test · table read · open call
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