Do You Know What NDA Means? If Not, You Need To

Hi, it's Aaron Marcus, and here's your weekly acting and modeling information. First of all, it's been an absolutely crazy week. It's good crazy, but I am just spending a whole lot of time working on my new website, and I can't wait for it to be ready and roll it out so you guys can play with it. It's going to be really, really good. There's going to be some really very helpful things to you. That you're going to enjoy. What I want to talk about today is an NDA, and you might or might not have heard of that term. If you haven't done a whole lot in the way of auditioning, or if you haven't booked many films or television shows, then you probably have never run across NDAs. And basically, I want to make sure you know what that means and what it's all about, because it's actually very important to you. It's called a non-disclosure agreement, and I've had to sign them sometimes for auditions. I remember auditioning for M. Night Shyamalan, one of his movies, and they're very concerned about information getting out to the world before it's being shot, edited, and placed in movies. As you can imagine, there are always a lot of surprises, and The same thing holds true for a lot of television shows and movies. They don't want information going out until the, you know, the program is actually out there or the film is out there. So typically actors are going to be given a document. It's a legal document and it's a non-disclosure agreement. And what it says— there's a lot of information in there. The one that I just recently got for a film that I'll be Shooting in Atlanta. It's everything. I mean, it's a lot of basic information, but some of it is stuff that you might be surprised about. Certainly, you know, you can't bring cameras to the set. You can't have photos taken of your wardrobe. You can't bring people to the set. I mean, those are pretty standard things that I know sometimes aren't always followed, but they should be. They're concerned. They just don't want information going out prior to a film being released. But some of the other things that are also interesting, they don't want They don't want you giving out any kind of information about the film. I'm not allowed to mention the title of the film. I can't mention the other actors, the director of the film, plots or anything like that. I mean, they sent me the script and it's very clear they don't want that information going out, and I completely understand that. So if you are in a fortunate position to get an NDA, Once again, it's a non-disclosure agreement. Follow it very carefully because it's not something you want to play with. I mean, besides the fact that it just, you know, it's helpful to the project if information isn't leaked out. But also just from a legal point of view. I mean, you could get fired, they could hold your money, you might not get paid. It would be a real mess. So anyhow, follow the legal document very, very carefully. Hey, the other thing I just wanted to mention to you, and I'm going to repeat it in the text here, on June 17th, I'm going to have this incredible gathering of everybody on my email list, and we're going to get a chance to hang out online. We're going to talk to each other. I like to hear what you guys are up to, if you have any questions, things you're not liking, just a way of being able to communicate on a human level as opposed to just sending out information all the time and being able to interact. cool about it is being able to do this with people from literally around the world. So anyhow, hold June 17th. All the details are in the text in this weekly letter because we do have limited space. It's absolutely free, but there is limited space, so you do have to sign up. And can't wait to have you join us. And I'll have a lot more to talk about next week because that's when it looks like I'll be shooting the film. So anyhow, have a great week. I'm Aaron Marcus, and I really look forward to talking with you again soon. Bye.