CASTING Everywhere is a garden for Miracle Grow This casting is the week of 11/5/20 and is by invitation only.
Send just ONE FILE and no more than two takes. Slate your first and last name to camera and then begin your audition. If you wish to do two takes keep rolling, take a moment and start again.
Please upload your mp3 file to dropbox and send it to richardjordancasting@gmail.com as a link (don’t share with my Dropbox account, turn it into a live link.) Please and Thank you!
Richard Jordan Casting
Looks/Directions/SCRIPTS for audition video by role:
Apt Female: Look: To feel like you actually live in Studio Apt in a City. Action: Pretending you’re watering/cleaning/fixing up your home garden. Then pause, look both at camera then off camera when saying the lines" Lines: “This is a Garden….. But so is this…… Sure is”
Creative professional/Hipster Male: Look: Think Williamsburg style Action: Pretending you’re RePotting plants in your home garden. Then pause, look both at camera then off camera when saying the lines" Lines: “This is a Garden….. But so is this…… Sure is”
Man working from home for a long time in is home office: Look: In the middle of a Zoom style meeting in your home office Action: Pretending you’re on a busy zoom style meeting. When somebody during the meeting notices your indoor garden that resembles a “forest”. You comment on where you are" Lines: (start off with quick banter in the zoom meeting then comment back to them) “In my garden!”
MIdwest Professional at his new home office male (in zoom meeting): Look: In the middle of a Zoom style meeting in your home office Action: Pretending you’re on a busy zoom style meeting. When during the meeting you interrupt your co worker and notice the indoor garden he's surrounded in what resembles a “forest”. You question him where he is?" Lines: (start off with quick banter in the zoom meeting then interrupt to question where he is) “…Wait Where are you?!…(he replies “In My Garden”)... Really?!”
Mom in the Kitchen Look: Mom preparing Dinner for your daughter Action: Pretending to prepare a dinner for your daughter by Cutting veggies. Then picking herbs from your ‘AeroGarden”. Then pause, look both at camera then off camera when saying the lines. Then your daughter busy on her smartphone, comments "the kitchen isn’t a Garden” You reply to her… pointing around how a Garden can be every place even in the kitchen. Lines: “And fresh from the garden! ……..(daughter: ”the kitchen isn’t a Garden”)…. “Of course it is, everywhere’s a garden. If something can grow here, here, here, and there… Then you’ve got a garden..”
Daughter in the Kitchen (NOTE: the tone of daughter's delivery is not snotty or bratty. Daughter should be distracted or commenting on mom doing "weird mom things" again. The following action the daughter's interest is piqued and becomes engaged.)
Look: Sporty looking Daughter busy on her smartphone Action: Pretending to be busy on your smartphone while your mother is preparing your dinner in the kitchen. You comment how the kitchen isn’t a garden while she points to how everywhere can be a garden. Then agree with her smile back and continue on your phone. Lines: (Mom says:“And fresh from the garden!) …You say: ”the Kitchen isn’t a Garden”…. (Mom: “Of course it is, everywhere’s a garden. If something can grow here, here, here, and there… Then you’ve got a garden)...”
