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Master the Art of the Self-Tape.
At Audition Buddy, we know that self-tapes are the new front line of acting. Mark provides expert coaching for self-tape auditions, transforming your raw talent into polished, professional submissions. We focus on guiding talent to their next opportunity with practical, industry-leading techniques. Your success is our mission.
Mark Theodossiou – As a Self-Tape Acting Coach & Creative Industries Mentor, Mark consistently emulates the traits of an astute Business Development Manager for the Creative Industries in Brisbane.
Your guide for acting auditions, self-tapes, team building for teams and creative school incursion experiences.
Mark applies his industry expertise and connections to help introduce acting students, creative industries teachers, talent agents, casting directors, photographers, independent film and theatre makers to not only find one another, but also ways to collaborate.
From Mark’s perspective, it’s all about thinking and working outside the box. When we focus on working outside the box, this can stand to open far more doors than simply focusing inside the box.
Possibilities for creative development stems from all of us working together, and taking creative risks, leading to innovative ways of thinking, doing and facilitating.
Acting Auditions
Mentor dynamics in acting audition training aims to accelerate preparation within the training itself. This streamlined actor coaching technique hones in on specific areas of the audition technique, helping the actor bring out the best in their creative potential, range and versatility.
As an audition architect, we understand the importance of creative planning, structure and building a successful audition career, because even if it sounds like a terrible cliche, the casting director wants you to succeed, and so do we.
Think of us as your industry compass, as we diligently offer you guidance and navigation towards what can some times feel like tricky industry challenges to overcome, we help you make these creative obstacles your new mindset.
Self-Tapes
The creative ascent focuses on the actors implied growth and creative development within the process of perfecting their self-tape performance.
Self-Tape performance can certainly be considered a creative skill, encompassing a myriad of different tools.
While creative ascent usually occurs organically, this process can also immerse the actor in a self journey of creative discovery.
This journey can involve transitional skills, usually from stage to screen, but also from screen to stage too, reflecting the more challenging of the two.
Our pro-tape blue print aims to ensure quality and reliability.
Although there are never any guarantees in audition tapes, it’s not about the guarantee as much as it can be about establishing and maintaining familiarity with the casting director, recruiter or potential employer.
As your performance partner, we aim to help you bring out a positive reflection of your own personality in your self-tape performance.
This is geared to support collaboration, because the whole performance goal in an audition tape, is to give the casting director a sense of what you can do creatively, and a sample of your personality too.
Basically, how personable is this talent and can we envisage them fitting in and working on a film set or live production?
Although self-tapes essentially do have a common structure e.g. Performance, Introduction followed by Outro, as your self-tape strategist, we also must
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