AUDITION FOR HOLLYWOOD
Saturday, February 26, 2005
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Mr. Jolson-Colburn is an award-winning writer and
editor who served as Editor and Publisher of Grammy
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Washington Post, E!, Boston Globe, New York Times,
Newsday, Rolling Stone, San Francisco Chronicle, TV
Guide, Us Magazine, etc. can be found by entering his
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Besides launching four national print magazines as
publisher, he has founded and served as
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hollywoodreporter.com, grammy.com and Woodstock.com.
Mr. Jolson was the first reporter for E!Online and
launched his first "online" publication for The
Hollywood Reporter prior to the creation of the
Internet itself.
Currently, Mr. Jolson-Colburn is assembling a team of
seasoned professionals to keep us up to date with the
latest "entertainment news we can use". As
Editor-In-Chief of Audition For Hollywood's newly
launched News Division, and as the most recent
addition to the company's Industry Advisory Board, Mr.
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growing Internet based entertainment website the place
to "Be seen, Be heard, and Be discovered."
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Sunday, November 28, 2004
One of the most important things you need to advance your career is “access”. If you were able to meet the hottest casting company or film and television producers, directors and agents would you be in the perfect position? Maybe not. You need your package to be aggressively competitive. Your photos, resume, bio, reel, and audio samples all comprise your package. The following information is being sent to you, so that you can compete for jobs, increase your chances, improve your package and have a chance for a FREE trip to Hollywood for a full day of total access to present yourself and your package.
My partner and I formed Audition For Hollywood to provide access to industry decision makers to talent who otherwise would not be able to reach them. Our aim is to help actors, musicians, singers, dancers, models, pageant contestants and writers with our initial roll out phase. Phase II will expand to other aspects of the industry, such as crew, make up artists, costume designers, etc.
The entertainment industry has created a system that by its nature places talent in a position behind agents, managers and casting directors. The system limits new or emerging talents opportunities. Audition is changing that dynamic.
Our industry board does search our database regularly and we do have jobs posting to the system often so that you can access them directly. We do not advocate eliminating your agent or manager if you have one, but we are expanding your opportunities with or without one.
The next best thing to being in front of the casting director is being able to submit your professional or well-developed profile, electronically, so that your talents and experience can be seriously considered. However, the competition for each job is extreme. No one is going to hire you because they think you “look nice” or because you have a clever photo on your profile page. Studios, production companies, agencies, and record labels have financial partners who insist on profitable decisions. The decision makers are by nature of their jobs, looking for the best person to fill the role. “Best” can mean many things, but it certainly means someone who is demonstrating a real passion for their career.
Why would someone choose you over all the other people out there? What makes you stand out? What have you done to gain the experience that separates you from the other thousands of people competing for the role or opportunity?
When I work with talent, I tell them to take their headshot and turn it over. What is on the resume? Is it full or is it light? Are the credits on the resume recent, consistently developed over time or are they from an ancient history flash back?
There are ways to develop yourself without being in the middle of a major market. Filmmakers are always looking for talent for their short films and indie films. They often advertise in the local newspapers, at large and small film schools, at acting studios and on various message boards. Until you are commanding big bucks for your roles in projects, the best thing you can do for yourself is to get experience in front of the camera as often and in as many different roles as possible. The more experience you gain the better your skills will become and the heavier your resume will look to someone seeking a new face, new sound or new idea. New does not necessarily mean “young”.
Musicians and singers have the same opportunity to promote their music on indie and short films. The filmmaker’s goal is to send their films to festivals, distributors and producers. Every person participating on the project will get exposure each time the film is aired.
Writers, models, pageant contestants are also in a position to increase their visibility by participating in small projects for credit and a copy of the final project. If you have not checked out www.Guerillaflics.com or http://www.theshootoutboulder.com/
I would suggest that you visit the sites. They each highlight filmmakers and talent who have worked on small projects and who are gaining broader recognition for their efforts.
Audition For Hollywood has also created other ways for you to meet with and pitch to Hollywood industry decision makers. From time to time we create incentive programs. The programs are designed to give you another avenue for access. Currently, we are offering the first 10 people who refer 100 new members to Audition For Hollywood a round trip ticket and night in a hotel in Los Angeles, with a full day of complete access to our industry board plus many other industry decision makers.
You could perform a scene, show your short film or reel, pitch an idea, sing, dance, or just chat with the executives about anything you feel is important to your career. The day will be on us. Ask questions, learn about the inside track on deal making, or what it takes to make it. We are offering the opportunity because we want you to get involved in creating a network within your own community. If you bring 100 people together to join Audition For Hollywood, you will have created the foundation for acting workshops, indie film production teams, music jam sessions, or any other kind of special interest group to support your interests locally.
It is not that hard to get started. Every community has people who are interested in performing. Some want to stay local others want to reach for the stars. A membership in Audition For Hollywood provides both. Since your profile can be submitted electronically, you can promote yourself to anyone, anywhere in the world just by sending an email. You can respond to the local theater company and to jobs within your state or region just as easily as you can to jobs in the major markets.
I want to help you get started today. If you have not joined our referral program you will find information about how to do it and how easy it is to get started on our homepage:
www.auditionforhollywood.com . Register for the Referral Program and start forming your own network of people who can help you get to Hollywood and who can work with you to help increase the impact of your package.
You can contact theater groups, local film groups, modeling agencies, acting classes, church performance groups, music classes, and other groups comprised of people with an interest in performance. You can also send invitations to your email lists and people from any where in the world who would like to know about Audition For Hollywood and the opportunity you have found by becoming a member.
I look forward to hearing from you and perhaps to seeing you in Los Angeles for your day of pitching and performing for the industry decision makers.
Sincerely,
Susan Kay Moses
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Why do people flock to film festivals? Each day there are dozens of festivals across the globe, and every one is jammed with eager filmmakers and actors seeking their moment of recognition. What are they looking for and will they find it? One simply needs to contact http://www.withoutabox.com for a list of festivals registered with their clearinghouse service to see how vast the world of festival has become.
Within the last 30 days, I attended two very different film festivals. The first one, www.Bouldershootout.com was a 24-hour contest and festival challenging filmmakers to the task of writing, shooting and delivering a short film within a 24-hour period. There were numerous limitations and many technical considerations for each team. The second festival was held in Queens, New York, http://www.queensfilmfestival.com/
In Boulder I was the director on a film making team, in Queens I was an invited panelist and presenter. In each case, I found the challenge and the opportunities to be quite good. Festivals provide filmmaking teams with an organized venue to preview their work to a variety of audiences including distributors, studios, television executives and funding sources. Directors, producers and DPs can showcase themselves in hopes of getting the right kind of attention and even perhaps a prize or two.
Festivals also are keen places for networking. If the festival is small enough aspiring talent can find a famous filmmaker or casting director at a local coffee house or on a panel and generally they are very approachable and willing to talk in the more relaxed environment. I personally met with several talented teams in Boulder, one of whom approached me about producing their next film project. I didn’t immediately agree, but after meeting and opening up a dialogue with the director, I was convinced that the team was serious and ready to work hard under my direction. For them, it was a successful event. They were finalists in the competition and they ended up making a deal with a Hollywood company and producer.
In Queens I met dozens of talented filmmakers and actors who were looking for the same kind of access. The actors wanted to know more about my main company, www.auditionforhollywood.com and how they could access Hollywood using the service. Two of the actors made quite an impression and were able to break through to the next level. They joined the service and were immediately able to submit themselves to a couple of opportunities we had posted and were aware of. One of the actors was able to audition for a huge role on an NBC new TV series and the other is already heading for Los Angeles for a couple of auditions and a shot on a low budget feature film.
Festivals are also promoting more short film genre and therein lies the real opportunity for talent looking to break into entertainment. Our sister website: www.guerillaflics.com affords filmmakers an opportunity to showcase their shorts which feature members of the Audition For Hollywood. The films showcase the writing, directing and talent at a very small cost to produce. Digital video cameras make it possible to produce a 5-minute short film for under $500.
One Guerilla Flic director, Pamela Gidley submitted her film to the New York International Film festival and was selected for presentation. It was her first directorial effort which lead to a second short film now in pre-production and to her first paying job as a director.
Festivals can be a good resource for talent and they can lead to many unexpected opportunities. I personally look forward to attending more of them over the next months and to producing and directing more short films myself.
I highly recommend that anyone who is looking for a way to showcase his or her talent consider the festival route. It only takes one break to get to the next level. I know that our company Audition For Hollywood is committed to helping and promoting new talent, which is why we have affiliated with festivals and the online resource www.Guerillaflics.com
Susan Kay Moses, President
Audition For Hollywood, LLC
www.auditionforhollywood.com
Monday, November 22, 2004
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
AUDITION FOR HOLLYWOOD (www.auditionforhollywood.com), announces a Referral Program Incentive Package. In addition to giving a ten percent commission to anyone who refers a paid subscriber to the website, the company has created a NEW incentive for the first 10 people who refer at least 100 new members to the website beginning September 1st, 2004.
This incentive promotion will end at the earlier of, the qualification of the first 10 people or December 31st, 2004.According to the Company's President, Susan Kay Moses, " We have had amazing success with our Referral Program since our soft launch. Model Alley (www.modelalley.tv) completed one phase of the program and has been awarded a photo package valued at $5000.00.” (Click here) for details of the Model Alley package.
The NEW promotion is being offered to up to 10 people. The recipients of the New promotional package will each receive round trip transportation to Los Angeles, if the qualified recipient resides outside of the metropolitan Los Angeles area, a night in a Hollywood hotel, and an entire day to mingle, to meet and schmooze, with entertainment industry movers and shakers.
If you would like to spend an entire day with Hollywood movers and shakers, mingle with a high profile group of entertainment executives including the likes of casting directors, managers, agents, producers, music executives, television producers, or modeling agency scouts, join our Referral Program today. Click here to sign up for our Referral Program now!
Already a member of the Referral Program? You can participate in this exciting NEW program. Click here to continue referring your friends, fellow actors, singers, dancers, musicians, writers and other entertainers.
A day with Hollywood movers, shakers and decision makers could be yours! Pitch a script, showcase your monologue, ask the questions you have always wanted to ask but never had access, sing, play music, screen your short film. The day will be yours!
Click here to get started for our Referral Program now!
If you need a banner containing your referral code for your website, or as a part of the signature on your emails, send an email request to: support@auditionforhollywood.com
Susan Kay Moses, President, Audition For Hollywood, LLC
838 N. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Phone: (310) 779 4778
FAX: (323) 658 7654
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Don't miss www.Guerillaflics.com
Hollywood filmmakers have created a way for indie films starring new talent to be showcased
on the web. The films are cast, in part or totally, from members of the www.auditionforhollywoood.com membership.
Learn more at www.Guerillaflics.com
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Audition for Hollywood Licenses NASA's Perilog Technology
Jan. 27, 2004 -- Audition For Hollywood and NASA Ames Research Center announced today that they have entered into a license agreement for NASA's Perilog Technology. Audition will use the technology in conjunction with its own proprietary Application System. Perilog is a contextual search tool that retrieves and organizes data from any sequence of terms including musical notes, text, words and phrases and other unique formats by developing a ranking, and presenting the search results to the user.
Audition's Chairman, Gregory Cascante, stated, "Perilog is exciting and important for the company's Internet based service. We match the requirements of entertainment industry decision makers with the skills of aspiring talent involved in all segments of entertainment including actors, musicians, dancers, models, and writers. Perilog affords us the opportunity to enhance our own proprietary Application System's search engine by integrating both objective and subjective criteria. This refined and expanded search and match capability will create a cutting edge feature distinguishing Audition For Hollywood from the competition."
David Lackner, NASA Ames Research Center's Commercialization of Technology Program Officer, described the licensing agreement with Audition For Hollywood as "an unexpected but exciting opportunity to broaden our charter of making NASA's internally developed technology available to private sector companies. Typically, we license our inventions to companies in the medical or manufacturing fields. Our agreement with Audition For Hollywood is our first foray into the entertainment industry, and we are delighted that Perilog adds value to Audition For Hollywood's business strategy."
Audition For Hollywood, LLC
Susan Moses, 323-658-8888
smoses@auditionforhollywood.com
