Master the Self-Tape

Film a successful self-tape audition without losing your mind.

MASTER THE SELF-TAPE:

Film a successful self-tape audition without losing your mind.

 

Learn from Melissa Paradice, a casting professional with over 20 years of experience and head of Asylum Casting.

Learn the fundamentals of preparing for and completing a self-tape audition with ease! In this four-week class we’ll discuss and practice framing shots, eyelines, slates, editing, uploading methods, file names, how to set up your camera, basic equipment, and ways to make the best of what you’ve got. You’ll be a pro in no time.

 

 
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
 
  • Set up a high quality in-home recording studio using your own phone;
  • Understand the terminology and vernacular of casting communications;
  • Apply best practices for slating, framing, and eyelines (terms you’ll know more by the end of class!)
  • Trim clips and rename files so casting agents don’t throw their computers out the window;
  • Apply valuable feedback from industry professionals and peers
Email admin@improvasylum.com to join the waitlist!

Melissa Paradice has been casting in the New England and NY markets for over 20 years. Immediately after graduating Emerson College with a BA in Theater Education,

Melissa began her professional journey at Maura Tighe Casting, she continued on when Maura sold the company to Christine Wyse, and then Melissa purchased the company in 2017.

Always an enormous fan of improv and comedy, she fell in love with Improv Asylum the first second she stepped into that basement theater, and has been s huge supporter of improv all over the city, but most especially at the theater that has come to feel like home. When Norm approached Melissa with a partnership proposition, she leaped at the chance to become a part of the Asylum family.