Aaron Marcus, a commercial actor with nearly 30 years and over 1,200 jobs, shares one audition technique: focus entirely on your scene partner instead of booking the role. Stay open to their responses and let them affect you. Repeat this enough and auditions become less painful.
Hi, I'm Aaron Marcus, and welcome to my Quick Tip Acting and Modeling Series. I've been a full-time actor and a commercial model for nearly 30 years now, and so far I've booked over 1,200 jobs. I want to share with you something that I know will be incredibly helpful to you at auditions. There are so many things that are going on at auditions. It's preparing, it's being nervous, it's, you know, making sure you do a good read. Here's something that you definitely want to try. Go into the audition and have one specific goal in mind. It's not about booking the job. Why don't you try this? Focus on really concentrating, looking at the reader who you are reading with in this scene, and really make sure that you open yourself up and feel affected by what the reader is saying back to you. That is your goal. And what you will find is, and I'll send some other quick tips to you on other things that you can do at the audition, but it's a, it's a nice slow process of getting more experience, getting more comfortable at auditions. And then after you've really mastered these things, you're going to actually enjoy going to an audition. So as a suggestion, Next time you have an audition, really concentrate on focusing on the reader, and that's your goal. If you have any questions, always feel free to— you can go to my facebook.com/howtomodel page and, and please like this there. And if you're seeing this on YouTube, give it a thumbs up. I look forward to talking with you real soon. Thank you.
