Just a quick update as I have been really busy as of late. Tomorrow I will be off to the almeidas audition masterclass that the young friends at the almeida host. I am most looking forward to this as a person from the central school of speech and drama will be giving us a presentation about auditions for drama school and then showing us some mock auditions at the school. I will be looking forward to seeing both good/bad auditions and then comparing them with mine. We then get the opportunity to spend 20 minutes in a private audition with 3 industry proffesionals! We will get to perform our monologues and they will give us constructive feedback.
I hope to keep document of the day and will be writing a blog when i get back from it! I will hold all the hint/tips in my mind and deliver them too you!!!!!!
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Dates are In!
Hello everyone. I hope everyones auditions are going ok and that they are having some success!
This week I have got all my drama school auditon dates in and they are as follows:
Drama Centre: 20th May 2011!
RADA: 29th March 2011.
Rose Bruford: 16th March 2011
Central: 13th April 2011.
Also on the 23rd Feb, I am lucky in that I have secured a place at the Almeida Theatre in participating in one of their half term workshops. The workshop I applied for was the audition one. It will be a great experience as one of the Panel from the auditions at Central will be coming in to give us a speech about drama school and what central is particularly looking for. We when then get the opportunity to perform our monologues to a panel of industry experts - who will give us feedback. All for free. I think this is great! I have also contacted Guildhall and they have told me they will issue feedback to me soon ( I will post this on here as soon as it comes)! It may give people an idea of what they're looking for!
I am very happy with my dates as it gives me more time to prepare for them! In particular the drama centre and central audition.
I may also apply for LAMDA, their audition fee online is a lot cheaper than a paper application. So I must apply before it is too late!
How are people paying for their drama school auditon fee's? I am selling everything I own and taking up another job to pay for everything. Do you think drama schools should charge for such things?
Tell me about your experiences!
Anyway, I would like to hear what you think?!
This week I have got all my drama school auditon dates in and they are as follows:
Drama Centre: 20th May 2011!
RADA: 29th March 2011.
Rose Bruford: 16th March 2011
Central: 13th April 2011.
Also on the 23rd Feb, I am lucky in that I have secured a place at the Almeida Theatre in participating in one of their half term workshops. The workshop I applied for was the audition one. It will be a great experience as one of the Panel from the auditions at Central will be coming in to give us a speech about drama school and what central is particularly looking for. We when then get the opportunity to perform our monologues to a panel of industry experts - who will give us feedback. All for free. I think this is great! I have also contacted Guildhall and they have told me they will issue feedback to me soon ( I will post this on here as soon as it comes)! It may give people an idea of what they're looking for!
I am very happy with my dates as it gives me more time to prepare for them! In particular the drama centre and central audition.
I may also apply for LAMDA, their audition fee online is a lot cheaper than a paper application. So I must apply before it is too late!
How are people paying for their drama school auditon fee's? I am selling everything I own and taking up another job to pay for everything. Do you think drama schools should charge for such things?
Tell me about your experiences!
Anyway, I would like to hear what you think?!
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Guildhall Audition Update.
Firstly, I did not get through to the recall stage. Am I upset by this?. No. I will explain later.
Now, if anyone has not auditioned for the Guildhall before, i am going to tell you how it works.
Ok, so you make your way to sundial court, which i could not find at all so I asked a worker on the street if he knew where it was and gladly he did. It's all underground and the space is the guildhalls student union. Basically you wait for a few minutes before you go into this other room and then you are given a number, which is the number you are in when you go into the panel. Everyone gets to know each other very quick and everyone and has the usual drama school audition banter. Now, there are three graduates that are there, one was actually in Eastenders and they are there for you to ask any questions and just general chat. They also come in with you when you see the panel. Now, before anyone see's your speechs you all gather into the audition room and do some fun exercises. Seriously, I had no breath at the end of it! Like make the number 33, or 35! You work with the panel doing this. The guy on the panel, seemed very nice and engaging, but the girl was just watching, looking quite fed up and bored by it all. Now at the end of that, they gathered all of us up, to say that they don't want to see you acting a character they just want see you. Now, this actually quite shocked me, as I thought acting was about inhabiting a different person from yourself. I could see why they would want you to just be yourself but this made me panic a little. Ok, now everyone is back in the original room and I was called second. I did everything as I rehearsed at home and felt like i did a really good job, considering how nerve racking the experience was. But I could tell, that I wasn't being me and that I was inhabiting a character?? You can also use the graduates as a kind of audience, or someone to interact with during the speech. The panel actually encourages you to look at them. They also ask you some questions, generally what you are doing, where else are you applying. So off i went back into the waiting room and had a lovely chat with two girl friends that I made a connection with and one which actually got through. I was really happy for her,as it was her first drama experience EVER! The guy who got through also is new to the whole drama school experience. I am not upset by the not getting through, as I had a great time meeting new people, but i felt the guildhall didn't suit me as an actor. I felt even in the audition, that they were trying to strip everything away from you, i know this is good, but it is not what I want.
If you really want to get into the guildhall by advice is to you:
throw away everything you practised at home
be prepared to just be yourself and not inhabit a character.
Well anyway, i don't think I will be applying to the guildhall next year. But I still had a very good time!
Now, if anyone has not auditioned for the Guildhall before, i am going to tell you how it works.
Ok, so you make your way to sundial court, which i could not find at all so I asked a worker on the street if he knew where it was and gladly he did. It's all underground and the space is the guildhalls student union. Basically you wait for a few minutes before you go into this other room and then you are given a number, which is the number you are in when you go into the panel. Everyone gets to know each other very quick and everyone and has the usual drama school audition banter. Now, there are three graduates that are there, one was actually in Eastenders and they are there for you to ask any questions and just general chat. They also come in with you when you see the panel. Now, before anyone see's your speechs you all gather into the audition room and do some fun exercises. Seriously, I had no breath at the end of it! Like make the number 33, or 35! You work with the panel doing this. The guy on the panel, seemed very nice and engaging, but the girl was just watching, looking quite fed up and bored by it all. Now at the end of that, they gathered all of us up, to say that they don't want to see you acting a character they just want see you. Now, this actually quite shocked me, as I thought acting was about inhabiting a different person from yourself. I could see why they would want you to just be yourself but this made me panic a little. Ok, now everyone is back in the original room and I was called second. I did everything as I rehearsed at home and felt like i did a really good job, considering how nerve racking the experience was. But I could tell, that I wasn't being me and that I was inhabiting a character?? You can also use the graduates as a kind of audience, or someone to interact with during the speech. The panel actually encourages you to look at them. They also ask you some questions, generally what you are doing, where else are you applying. So off i went back into the waiting room and had a lovely chat with two girl friends that I made a connection with and one which actually got through. I was really happy for her,as it was her first drama experience EVER! The guy who got through also is new to the whole drama school experience. I am not upset by the not getting through, as I had a great time meeting new people, but i felt the guildhall didn't suit me as an actor. I felt even in the audition, that they were trying to strip everything away from you, i know this is good, but it is not what I want.
If you really want to get into the guildhall by advice is to you:
throw away everything you practised at home
be prepared to just be yourself and not inhabit a character.
Well anyway, i don't think I will be applying to the guildhall next year. But I still had a very good time!
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
About me and the purpose of this Blog.
Hello, to anyone who reads this!
My name is Jack Davies and I am 18 years of age and I live in Clapham, South West London. I moved to London about six months ago from Nottingham to experience a GAP year. I was employed at Waitrose for about three months but I left because I had to get up at 4am every morning and it was making me depressed and very very tired. I am looking for a job.
I have a passion for acting and performing, I have done since I could talk. In order to pursue my dream I have decided to take part in the audition process 2011 for drama schools. So, throughout my time on the blogsphere I will be informing you, my lovely readers what the Drama school process is like, any hints and tips that I get from the experiences and try and work out what the selection panel are looking for.
For the 2011 year I am auditioning at these following universities.
Guildhall School of Drama and Music
The Drama Centre
Central School of Speech and Drama
Rose Bruford
RADA
I have also applied for places to do drama at Queen Mary University and Goldsmiths University as a kind of back up plan if things don't go to plan. But drama school is the only option for me, really.
If I have enough money, I will think about auditioning for LAMDA and Bristol Old Vic, but at this moment in time, I think not.
Last year, I auditioned for two drama schools. LIPA and Manchester Met. I was going to audition at other places but could not as I could not afford the fee's. Although I did not get through in any stage for these places, I put this soley down to being UNPREPARED. I had not researched my speeches enough, in my LIPA audition I could not even remember a single line from my shakespeare piece, that I had to keep going backwards and forwards with the panel asking what line comes next. Embarrasing, yes I know!
I think Manchester Met, taught me to be selective over my pieces. I choose to perform two of the most popular Shakespeare pieces out there, romeo and Macbeth. I was just being Lazy expecting everything to come my way and not expecting to work for anything. Also it made me realise that I had to find pieces that compliment me as an actor and pieces that I am passionate about.
But this year, as I have had more time and really really want to get through, I have decided to do things properly. I started researching my monologues about two or three months ago, instead of a week before the audition day.
I have one audition date confirmed and that is for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on the 3rd Feburary 2011! For this audition I have decided to do Prince Hal from King Henry IV part 1, Cosmo from the Pitchfork Disney and Adam from The priory by Michael Wynn. I am very nervous about this audition, is it is the first audition I will experience this year. The first always seems the worse!
I will also be writing about other things such as reviews about the latest plays I have seen, and ideas about acting.
So, tell me about your experiences at drama school. I want to know where you are applying and if you have had any success.
My next update will most probably be after the Guildhall audition on the 3rd feb! EEK!
My name is Jack Davies and I am 18 years of age and I live in Clapham, South West London. I moved to London about six months ago from Nottingham to experience a GAP year. I was employed at Waitrose for about three months but I left because I had to get up at 4am every morning and it was making me depressed and very very tired. I am looking for a job.
I have a passion for acting and performing, I have done since I could talk. In order to pursue my dream I have decided to take part in the audition process 2011 for drama schools. So, throughout my time on the blogsphere I will be informing you, my lovely readers what the Drama school process is like, any hints and tips that I get from the experiences and try and work out what the selection panel are looking for.
For the 2011 year I am auditioning at these following universities.
Guildhall School of Drama and Music
The Drama Centre
Central School of Speech and Drama
Rose Bruford
RADA
I have also applied for places to do drama at Queen Mary University and Goldsmiths University as a kind of back up plan if things don't go to plan. But drama school is the only option for me, really.
If I have enough money, I will think about auditioning for LAMDA and Bristol Old Vic, but at this moment in time, I think not.
Last year, I auditioned for two drama schools. LIPA and Manchester Met. I was going to audition at other places but could not as I could not afford the fee's. Although I did not get through in any stage for these places, I put this soley down to being UNPREPARED. I had not researched my speeches enough, in my LIPA audition I could not even remember a single line from my shakespeare piece, that I had to keep going backwards and forwards with the panel asking what line comes next. Embarrasing, yes I know!
I think Manchester Met, taught me to be selective over my pieces. I choose to perform two of the most popular Shakespeare pieces out there, romeo and Macbeth. I was just being Lazy expecting everything to come my way and not expecting to work for anything. Also it made me realise that I had to find pieces that compliment me as an actor and pieces that I am passionate about.
But this year, as I have had more time and really really want to get through, I have decided to do things properly. I started researching my monologues about two or three months ago, instead of a week before the audition day.
I have one audition date confirmed and that is for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on the 3rd Feburary 2011! For this audition I have decided to do Prince Hal from King Henry IV part 1, Cosmo from the Pitchfork Disney and Adam from The priory by Michael Wynn. I am very nervous about this audition, is it is the first audition I will experience this year. The first always seems the worse!
I will also be writing about other things such as reviews about the latest plays I have seen, and ideas about acting.
So, tell me about your experiences at drama school. I want to know where you are applying and if you have had any success.
My next update will most probably be after the Guildhall audition on the 3rd feb! EEK!
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