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Welcome to Film on Tape, a free audio library for creatives in film and television. My name is Misha Calvert, and I've worked as an actor, writer, director and producer for many decades. I had so many questions when I was first getting started in New York, and I just wanted fast, free answers. That is what this library is for.
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The work that you do as a creative. It's so important. I really hope that this library is going to help get your work out there. Film on tape is sponsored by Vermilion, a coaching and educational company for creatives. You can learn more at clubvermilion.com. You guys seem to really love the last meditation episode that I did, so I want to give you another one.
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It's a quickie. It's going to help you with your audition to help visualize success for this audition. Because as athletes and studies on sports, professional sports, have proven to us, athletes who visualize themselves winning the game are more likely to win the game. So there's absolutely no reason not to do a quick visualization before an audition. It's probably going to help you to perform better, and it will probably make you a little more confident, even just 1%.
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So sit back, relax, and let us prepare you for your audition.
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Wherever you are, feel your body meeting the surface beneath it. You could be seated in a chair or a couch. You could be laying on the floor. Just feel the ground underneath you. Supporting you here to help you feel grounded. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath as you come into your body.
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And let your inner eye awaken as you see yourself making the journey to this audition.
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It could be in your self-tape studio. It could be in a proper building. In an audition room with the casting director. It could be in a theater. Wherever it is, imagine yourself now, fully dressed, fully ready, looking absolutely stunning.
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On your way with everything you need, traveling to this audition. You're feeling really positive. People are noticing. “Hey, that person looks like they're in a good mood.” And you are. You are in a good mood. You feel calm. You feel excited, you feel confident. You catch sight of yourself in a reflection. And you think, “wow, I look great.”
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Then you're in the room where you're going to be doing the audition. And you see yourself so confident that this is going to go well. You know the lines. You have the script in your hand. You don't need it. You smile. Either at the camera or the casting director. And they were looking a little, little tired before. But when they catch your smile, they light up like a light bulb.
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You can see that you've brightened their day just by giving them a little of the joy that you feel.
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And you get such a sense in your body of warm, joyful, happy energy coming from this casting director to you and from you back to this casting director, you can feel this cycle of energy exchanging between you two.
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And you start to do the audition. And it is fresh. It's alive. You're in the moment, fully absorbed in the scene.
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You’re finding nuance you didn't discover before. It's like it's the most alive that it's been.
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You feel currents of energy surging through you as you finish the scene. And as you look up and come back to your body, come back to the audition room, you realize, “oh my God, that was one of the best auditions that I have ever done.”
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You feel fantastic. You calm, joyful, confident. Like a million bucks.
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You know that you are good at this. That you're meant for this career. You can just feel it in your body.
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You catch the eye of the casting director and they smile. They love what you've just done.
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They smile, and you know that you're going to be seeing that casting director again.
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As you walk out, you got your head held high and you feel just spectacular.
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The rest of your day is only going to be joyful after this wonderful experience.
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You feel that in your body now, that sense of accomplishment.
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Of joyful, playful adventure.
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And let your body joint by joint, start to smile with you.
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Your feet start to smile as you walk back to the room where you're in now. Your knees smile, your hips smile.
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Arms and hands smile. Your torso smiles. Your shoulders smile at you.
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And then finally, your face is already smiling. At what an incredible artist you are.
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And when you're ready. Take a deep breath.
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Slowly come back to the here and now, in your body, on the floor or on the chair.
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And when you're ready, you can blink open your eyes.
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Have a great audition.
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