The Competitive Edge

by Casting Director, Terry Berland Is Your Acting Audition Neutral? Find Your Sweet Spot. A neutral performance or audition is a bad audition.  You need to get to the point where you know if your performance is too big or too neutral. Acting too big and too...

The Competitive Edge

by Casting Director, Terry Berland Do you feel moments of connection? If I can sum up or bottom line what good acting is, I would say the feeling of connection.  When we watch good acting we feel you as the character.  We don’t see or feel you acting.  I recently was...

The Competitive Edge

by Casting Director, Terry Berland Inside the Callback Process How the Callback is Different from the First Call for the Casting Office Happy 2015. I wish you health, joy, and prosperity for the coming year. What better way to start out 2015 than on the positive note...

The Competitive Edge

by Casting Director, Terry Berland What Do You Do If  Your Audition Partner Is Not As Good As You? OK, I’ll say it…your partner sucked! I will agree that it is not a good experience to audition with a partner you are not jelling with, or worse yet, your partner gave...

The Competitive Edge

by Casting Director, Terry Berland Are you making it easy or hard for a casting director to give you an audition? Last week I was prepping a job where I needed to look at reels in order to choose talent.  The breakdown read, “only talent with reels can be considered...

The Competitive Edge

by Casting Director, Terry Berland  “Creatives don’t really know what they want” is a misunderstood statement. Usually when someone makes this statement, there are negative connotations referencing the creatives as indecisive.  The statement does not mean that at...