We looked at a section of True and False by David Mamet on auditions. This was really interesting to read as I appreciate his honesty and complete rawness towards the industry and how it works. It really opens your eyes and makes you realise that auditioning is pretty much black and white. It's hard but simple at the same time in terms of what is asked of you as an actor on paper can seem so easy and straight forward but putting that into practise and actual technique is a completely different thing altogether.
The "audition technique" is putting yourself in that mind frame that this monologue or piece of text you are performing is the be all and end all. This isn't the audition this is the performance, take all the background noise, casting directors, the audience and their opinions and be there to deliver a believable speech and character. You shouldn't be thinking of anything other than you are here, and you have a job to do as an actor. Which i think is so difficult to do, because how can you not think about the pre conceived judgements and what they're thinking of you whilst your performing. It's the one thing that destroys us as actors, what other people think, self belief and good practise is what can help you drive through that fear as you could say and give a performance that is worth stopping casting directors from writing and looking at you.
You need to build a hard shell to be successful in this business, as you will get more no's than yes's and at the end of the day everyone has a job to do, the directors, the agents, producers so you need to take the "personal" out of it and know that you are not what they're looking for, but the next role you come across may be just what they're looking for.
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