My commercial is on the sidekick website now! Click on this link and then watch it under "see it here first"
www.sidekick.com
Let me know what you think! (I'm in the brown shirt in the shopping cart)
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Drive In Movie
So there is totally a drive in movie theater left in LA and it is such a great deal. For $7.50 per person in the car, you can watch 3 movies back to back, legally! Right now Shreck III, Spiderman III, and Pirates III are all showing there in addition to about 6 other movies between all of the drive in screens.
I'm going tonight with some friends and I'm soooo excited:)
I'm going tonight with some friends and I'm soooo excited:)
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Comments Answered!
Anonymous asked as a comment to yesterday's blog, "i was wondering, do you get paid well to do commercials? no exact number needed of course, just curious."
Well anonymous, the answer to your question is: it depends. The way payment generally works is that you are paid an hourly wage for the first eight hours of work, time and a half for the next four and double time after that. The hourly wage is set as scale and is determined by the union. (SAG) You are only guaranteed the hourly rate for the hours you work, the residual payments are paid if and when the commercial airs. Some commercials never run if the campaign is abandoned, some commercials run for a day but then offend a certain demographic and get pulled, and others run 24/7.
The ones that run often make a lot of money for the actors and director. Also, if the company puts the spot on the Internet, there is a flat rate for that in addition to residuals and at the beginning of every 13 weeks the actors, director, etc are paid a holding fee equal to what they made for the days of shooting. The reason for this is that if you are in a Pepsi commercial, you may not do a commercial for coke as long as you are on "hold" with Pepsi. Right now since I did a commercial for T-Mobile, I am on hold with them as long as they choose to run and pay me for the commercial and I am not aloud to do a commercial for any other cell phone company.
Some actors make a living doing commercials while they wait for their breaks, others do it as a career. Some get lucky and become spokespeople for companies (IE the Verizon guy) and then they can negotiate their own contracts and higher pay.
If they are doing a good job at auditions, statistically actors book about every 40th commercial they go out for because commercials are often about a look and there are so many actors who are generally competing for between 1 and 12 roles. Despite this statistic, a friend of mine has 3 national spots running right now, one for Oscar Meyer, one for Burger King and one for an insurance company. Also, I booked the first thing I went out for!
Generally, commercials are a crap shoot you can make anywhere from $570 dollars to $200,000 depending on how often and for how many years they run your spot.
Well anonymous, the answer to your question is: it depends. The way payment generally works is that you are paid an hourly wage for the first eight hours of work, time and a half for the next four and double time after that. The hourly wage is set as scale and is determined by the union. (SAG) You are only guaranteed the hourly rate for the hours you work, the residual payments are paid if and when the commercial airs. Some commercials never run if the campaign is abandoned, some commercials run for a day but then offend a certain demographic and get pulled, and others run 24/7.
The ones that run often make a lot of money for the actors and director. Also, if the company puts the spot on the Internet, there is a flat rate for that in addition to residuals and at the beginning of every 13 weeks the actors, director, etc are paid a holding fee equal to what they made for the days of shooting. The reason for this is that if you are in a Pepsi commercial, you may not do a commercial for coke as long as you are on "hold" with Pepsi. Right now since I did a commercial for T-Mobile, I am on hold with them as long as they choose to run and pay me for the commercial and I am not aloud to do a commercial for any other cell phone company.
Some actors make a living doing commercials while they wait for their breaks, others do it as a career. Some get lucky and become spokespeople for companies (IE the Verizon guy) and then they can negotiate their own contracts and higher pay.
If they are doing a good job at auditions, statistically actors book about every 40th commercial they go out for because commercials are often about a look and there are so many actors who are generally competing for between 1 and 12 roles. Despite this statistic, a friend of mine has 3 national spots running right now, one for Oscar Meyer, one for Burger King and one for an insurance company. Also, I booked the first thing I went out for!
Generally, commercials are a crap shoot you can make anywhere from $570 dollars to $200,000 depending on how often and for how many years they run your spot.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Audition
My audition went really well and Dana was very nice. I am really hoping to get a day player role on Passions.
Wednesday I have an audition for a showcase and Thursday I am meeting with my agent so that I will hopefully have even more auditions:)
Wednesday I have an audition for a showcase and Thursday I am meeting with my agent so that I will hopefully have even more auditions:)
Monday, May 21, 2007
Two Things...
First, over the weekend I watched this crazy movie called "Going Overboard". It is Adam Sandler's first movie ever and the only other credit he had when he starred in it was four episodes of "The Cosby Show".
I found this movie at the library and picked it up only because he was on the cover and the movie was TERRIBLE. It was so bad it was funny. Billy Bob Thorton also makes an appearance, there is a band in the film called 'Yellow Teeth' and Sandler looks into the camera at one point and tells the viewer that this is a no budget movie.
If you have a few hours to kill and want a good laugh, watch "Going Overboard."
Second thing: I have an audition later for Dana Olsen, the casting director of the Daytime Drama, 'Passions!' Wish me luck!
I found this movie at the library and picked it up only because he was on the cover and the movie was TERRIBLE. It was so bad it was funny. Billy Bob Thorton also makes an appearance, there is a band in the film called 'Yellow Teeth' and Sandler looks into the camera at one point and tells the viewer that this is a no budget movie.
If you have a few hours to kill and want a good laugh, watch "Going Overboard."
Second thing: I have an audition later for Dana Olsen, the casting director of the Daytime Drama, 'Passions!' Wish me luck!
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