Oh how the time goes. Last week, I was feeling a little down for not booking anything. This is apparently normal just after the holidays, but still a let down for me. Then out of the blue, a death metal band needed someone to play a killer. After seeing my contortionist dance video, the director cast me for that role, along with another one, all shooting that weekend. Everyone involved was kind, and the pay was pretty good too! And I should have some great shots for my reel when it comes out in June.
I also signed on with an agency. They have a nonexclusive contract, meaning that they do not get to take a cut of my check unless they specifically help me get the job. They were slow on a job today, so I paid up to use the website because it was requesting a contortionist. Only after I submitted did they send an email. Sorry buster!
In the weekly online standup workshop I do, I feel that I am nearly done with two different five-minute sets. But also importantly, I have been blowing away the host with my one-liners. They are apparently the most difficult types of standup to write, but I have been churning them out at a decent rate. They are also very useful for padding a standup set from five minutes to become six or seven, etc. And I realized that Steve Martin's standup was made up primarily of a bunch of that style of joke. Maybe not literally one line, but he had a lot of little standalone jokes.
I also thought of a short film idea. Really just a couple moments in it, and now I am trying to expand those very specific scenes into a larger narrative. My dad texted my mom with reasons to kick me out of her house that are all focused on the fact that I am a financial investment that is no longer focusing on studying medicine. Never mind that he would not listen to the counsel that came from such an education. He also listed all the jobs that I can get with an MD (as if I would not have tried to get those jobs already). The fortunate thing is that this inspired another scene in the pilot that I am writing. I still do not know where to put it, but it is nice to have that kind of material. It is also nice because when my dad similarly advised my mom years ago regarding my oldest brother, she declined his advice, and that relatively worry-free time is when he managed to plant the seeds that would get him rich from crypto. Good omen.
I had a callback today for that audition I did last week. Different parts, but they were all fun. Downside is that I misspoke a couple times in the callback, whereas my auditions were pretty flawless. The writer/director praised how I had a distinctive way of playing each character. I responded by telling him that it was in the writing.
Pilot season is upon us. I have an acting website up as of an hour ago. I have a podcast interview tomorrow, a free modeling session on Saturday, and a comedy shoot on Sunday. And that corrupt chief of police role is supposed to film next week... but it is frustrating because they ask us to block off a week. The last dates they told me to block out, they never followed up about it. Those days came and went. And the videos that they released still look shoddy. Slightly better, but the lighting was bad enough that I did not give it more than a couple seconds of attention. They obviously need a director of photography, a prop master, and the editing obviously needs attention. Lighting too, but that and the lighting might be done by the director of photography. And to be clear, other productions in which I have been involved have looked great, so it is once again just the contrast of appearing like a student film.
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