Hamburger Helper gave Sam a callback. WOOT WOOT. That means he has two call backs on Monday. Hamburger Helper at 4pm and AMF at 5:10pm. Guess I will be hanging out in Hollywood that night. LOL
The numbers game is starting to play. The more auditions that you go on...the more your chances of a call back. The more call backs...the better your chance of booking a commercial.
OMG...it would be so sweet for him to get an actual job. His dream is starting to come to reality. Also, then his agent will see his talent and start sending him on other work....like film and television. That would be awesome.
Keep him in your prayers. And don't forget to keep his star power up. I know his IMDb doesn't change...but the higher his star power the more likely a casting agent will check out his page and bring the possibility of more work. He is rated by the number of people that click into his page. So spread the word and ask your friends to click on his link daily.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3137618/
Thanks for your help friends.
Tracy
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Another Call BACK!!!
Woo Hoo!!!
Today was a great day. I thought things were starting to slow down, but then his agent called with an audition for Hamburger Helper. They didn't find what they were looking for in their first call, so they have expanded the role. Sam goes in at 5:50 to audition.
Then he got a call back for a commercial he auditioned for last Monday. We rushed back from Tahoe and almost missed the audition. He was the one of the last two kids to go. Seriously, we made it with seconds to spare. They had just closed down the room and opened it back up for him and another kid that showed up right after him. This commercial is for an insurance company and it will only air in Sweden...so don't expect to see it unless you go on vacation. LOL
Yesterday he auditioned for a Nickelodeon game show that will start production in January and go through March. We won't know if he got onto the show until early January - March 15th. They need 240 kids, so his chances are good depending on how his test went. He thought he did good on the test...so we will see. He did the original shoot for the game over a year ago...they needed something to show the Nickelodeon team. Nick picked up their show and so Sam got a call back to audition since he was one of the original kids. They aren't looking for actors....just real kids to play the game.
The play is coming along nicely. He has all his lines memorized and his blocking down. Looks like Ryan, Kirsten and Ryan's parents will be in LA for Sam's opening night. Sam is happy about that. I guess I will go a different day.
Sam says hi and he misses everyone. He aslo wants me to remind you to click on his IMDb website...his star power fell this week. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3137618/
HUGS
Tracy
Today was a great day. I thought things were starting to slow down, but then his agent called with an audition for Hamburger Helper. They didn't find what they were looking for in their first call, so they have expanded the role. Sam goes in at 5:50 to audition.
Then he got a call back for a commercial he auditioned for last Monday. We rushed back from Tahoe and almost missed the audition. He was the one of the last two kids to go. Seriously, we made it with seconds to spare. They had just closed down the room and opened it back up for him and another kid that showed up right after him. This commercial is for an insurance company and it will only air in Sweden...so don't expect to see it unless you go on vacation. LOL
Yesterday he auditioned for a Nickelodeon game show that will start production in January and go through March. We won't know if he got onto the show until early January - March 15th. They need 240 kids, so his chances are good depending on how his test went. He thought he did good on the test...so we will see. He did the original shoot for the game over a year ago...they needed something to show the Nickelodeon team. Nick picked up their show and so Sam got a call back to audition since he was one of the original kids. They aren't looking for actors....just real kids to play the game.
The play is coming along nicely. He has all his lines memorized and his blocking down. Looks like Ryan, Kirsten and Ryan's parents will be in LA for Sam's opening night. Sam is happy about that. I guess I will go a different day.
Sam says hi and he misses everyone. He aslo wants me to remind you to click on his IMDb website...his star power fell this week. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3137618/
HUGS
Tracy
Monday, November 10, 2008
SAM GOT A CALL BACK!!!
Things are a little excited around here at the moment. SAM GOT A CALLBACK!!! FOR A PAYING JOB!!! He was given a callback for a "DEX" commercial.
Tomorrow at 11:30am. Commercial shoots next week.
KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED. PRAY!!!! This is a great opportunity to shoot a national commercial.
Tomorrow at 11:30am. Commercial shoots next week.
KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED. PRAY!!!! This is a great opportunity to shoot a national commercial.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Totally Unprepared....
I don't know what I was thinking. I should have known better based on past experience. I guess that I thought he would go audition for Nickelodeon and we would leave it at that. Even though I knew that Actorfest would have a bunch of booths to talk to people and gain information.
Sam and I went early, we were up and ready go. I thought we would go through the hall and meet a few people in the business and leave to do the audition. I brought some headshots with resumes attached, but really only enough for the Nickelodeon audition and a couple more people. I had other headshots and resumes, but they weren't stapled together. My mistake. A bunch of Casting directors had set out boxes in the corners for you to drop off your headshot and resume. Luckily, I was able to bum a stapler off another mom in the area. Even at that he had just enough headshots and not enough resumes. GRRRRR.
Missed opportunity and lesson learned.
He wasn't as prepared as he needed to be for Nickelodeon. I knew he wasn't prepared. But, I had been fighting with him all week to get more prepared. I knew he would walk in and out with out a call back. I hoped he would see that he really wasn't prepared like he should be. I told him that I wasn't going to force him to do it, I would suggest he spend time on it, but this was his deal and he could be prepared 100% of the time or he could fail. I guess when he gets rejected enough he might decide to do things my way. In the meantime.....no call back with Nickelodeon.
We heard back from the free work audition...they went another direction with another kid. We haven't heard back from anyone else as of yet, but maybe by the first of the week if he gets the job....otherwise...those are no too. They usually don't call to say no...only to say yes.
Anyway...that was my day. Three hours of standing in line, for Sam to hand out headshot and have a 30 second interview. I have a headache and need a nap.
Sam and I went early, we were up and ready go. I thought we would go through the hall and meet a few people in the business and leave to do the audition. I brought some headshots with resumes attached, but really only enough for the Nickelodeon audition and a couple more people. I had other headshots and resumes, but they weren't stapled together. My mistake. A bunch of Casting directors had set out boxes in the corners for you to drop off your headshot and resume. Luckily, I was able to bum a stapler off another mom in the area. Even at that he had just enough headshots and not enough resumes. GRRRRR.
Missed opportunity and lesson learned.
He wasn't as prepared as he needed to be for Nickelodeon. I knew he wasn't prepared. But, I had been fighting with him all week to get more prepared. I knew he would walk in and out with out a call back. I hoped he would see that he really wasn't prepared like he should be. I told him that I wasn't going to force him to do it, I would suggest he spend time on it, but this was his deal and he could be prepared 100% of the time or he could fail. I guess when he gets rejected enough he might decide to do things my way. In the meantime.....no call back with Nickelodeon.
We heard back from the free work audition...they went another direction with another kid. We haven't heard back from anyone else as of yet, but maybe by the first of the week if he gets the job....otherwise...those are no too. They usually don't call to say no...only to say yes.
Anyway...that was my day. Three hours of standing in line, for Sam to hand out headshot and have a 30 second interview. I have a headache and need a nap.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
This Week In HOLLYWOOD
Wow...this week has been busy, busy busy.
It is the last week of the quarter for school and so Sam has been taking final tests like crazy. He has an A in all of his classes. WOOT WOOT. All A's on all final tests. 4.0 baby!!!! That's what I am talkin about. He has worked hard and deserves everyone of them.
Now, onto the other part of our life....ACTING!!!
He had two auditions this week one for a free job...a student film where he would be a lead character and the other a paying job.... a national commercial for DEX. He also has three audition tomorrow and Saturday... two are for the same Voice Over (VO) cartoon. I think it is a kids show. Sam is trying out for two different roles...both pirates. The other audition is for Nickelodeon. He has been learning a monologue all week. It is very funny. I hope that leads to something big.
Auditions are rolling in. I was worried at first...but I guess it takes awhile to get your name back out there. Seems like the days when were here before.
I called the work permit office yesterday to find out where his current work permit is. I sent it off over 5 weeks ago and it is supposed to be a 3 day turn around. I was worried it got lost in the mail, but no...they are 6 weeks behind. Sam was supposed to have a job today and I couldn't commit without a work permit. I asked the lady if there was any way to speed it up since he had a job. She asked when the job was and when I told her, she agreed to process it right then as long as I could drive over to pick it up. SO YEAH!!!!! His work permit is here.
With the work permit, I was finally able to update his extra management company paperwork. So, starting tomorrow he will be on thier roles and will be able to get paid work through them. YEAH!!!
Lots of great things happening. Sam is enjoying his Tae Kwon Do and Hip Hop classes. The acting class is lots of fun. And, play practice is goig well.
Keep your fingers crossed!!!! And....keep us in your prayers.
T. and S.
It is the last week of the quarter for school and so Sam has been taking final tests like crazy. He has an A in all of his classes. WOOT WOOT. All A's on all final tests. 4.0 baby!!!! That's what I am talkin about. He has worked hard and deserves everyone of them.
Now, onto the other part of our life....ACTING!!!
He had two auditions this week one for a free job...a student film where he would be a lead character and the other a paying job.... a national commercial for DEX. He also has three audition tomorrow and Saturday... two are for the same Voice Over (VO) cartoon. I think it is a kids show. Sam is trying out for two different roles...both pirates. The other audition is for Nickelodeon. He has been learning a monologue all week. It is very funny. I hope that leads to something big.
Auditions are rolling in. I was worried at first...but I guess it takes awhile to get your name back out there. Seems like the days when were here before.
I called the work permit office yesterday to find out where his current work permit is. I sent it off over 5 weeks ago and it is supposed to be a 3 day turn around. I was worried it got lost in the mail, but no...they are 6 weeks behind. Sam was supposed to have a job today and I couldn't commit without a work permit. I asked the lady if there was any way to speed it up since he had a job. She asked when the job was and when I told her, she agreed to process it right then as long as I could drive over to pick it up. SO YEAH!!!!! His work permit is here.
With the work permit, I was finally able to update his extra management company paperwork. So, starting tomorrow he will be on thier roles and will be able to get paid work through them. YEAH!!!
Lots of great things happening. Sam is enjoying his Tae Kwon Do and Hip Hop classes. The acting class is lots of fun. And, play practice is goig well.
Keep your fingers crossed!!!! And....keep us in your prayers.
T. and S.
Monday, November 3, 2008
CVU
Sam auditioned for two roles in CVU and got both parts. YEAH!!!!! This is a pre-production pilot show that is going to be pitched to studio execs in 2010...so don't plan on seeing this one on TV anytime soon. They need 13 shows filmed before they can even pitch the show and they are just starting with show #1.
The show Sam auditioned for is called The Swimmer. Sam is one of the extras. He will be playing one of the kids on the swim team that had one of their own killed. He will be in two shots....set in 1989. I need to buy him a speedo or maybe ask Ryan's parent if they saved his high school swim team stuff....then it would be an actual speedo from 1989. LOL
The other part is crime scene photos. He producer hand picked Sam for a special shot in this one based on Sam's great head of hair. LOL. He is going to have FX make-up to make it look like he lost half his face when he was run over and killed while out riding his bike. Then they are going to take crime scene photos of his body. EW.....but very exciting to see Sam looking so gruesome.
There is a possibility for a show to be worked around Sam's killing.
These will be shooting in January of 2009. So...stay tuned.
The show Sam auditioned for is called The Swimmer. Sam is one of the extras. He will be playing one of the kids on the swim team that had one of their own killed. He will be in two shots....set in 1989. I need to buy him a speedo or maybe ask Ryan's parent if they saved his high school swim team stuff....then it would be an actual speedo from 1989. LOL
The other part is crime scene photos. He producer hand picked Sam for a special shot in this one based on Sam's great head of hair. LOL. He is going to have FX make-up to make it look like he lost half his face when he was run over and killed while out riding his bike. Then they are going to take crime scene photos of his body. EW.....but very exciting to see Sam looking so gruesome.
There is a possibility for a show to be worked around Sam's killing.
These will be shooting in January of 2009. So...stay tuned.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
SAM GOT A PART!!!!
So, Sam was picked to be Nephew Fred in A Christmas Carol. He wanted the role of Scrooge, but he is gone to Tahoe too much for him to have a main character role. We will settle for a smaller part. But, don't think it is a bad part. He has three scenes and a bunch of dialog. This is a much bigger role than the one he had in Oliver. He is very excited.
I will post the dates later and if anyone will be in LA when the show opens and if you want to see him perform....you can buy tickets to check him out. I think they are somewhere between $5 and $20 depending on the performance time.
We tried out the dance class and he didn't like it. So, he is taking Hip Hop on Thursday instead. We go straight from Tae Kwon Do to Hip Hop, and he is very tired after those two classes.
His agent sent us a note for a free acting class on Saturdays in November. He was able to claim one of the spots and will be doing that for the next four weeks.
Tomorrow he has play practice and then an audition to shoot crime scene photos and video for a pilot starting soon...called CVU. I am pretty sure it is a take off of Law and Order SVU, but the CVU stands for children's victim unit. He gets to be a dead body and have lots of cool make-up. I hope he gets it. Those pictures would be great for his portfolio.
Thanks for checking in. Leave Sam a comment. He loves to read them and he loves the words of encouragement. Hey...and if you click the link for follow this blog it will update you automatically when we post something new.
HUGS
T.
I will post the dates later and if anyone will be in LA when the show opens and if you want to see him perform....you can buy tickets to check him out. I think they are somewhere between $5 and $20 depending on the performance time.
We tried out the dance class and he didn't like it. So, he is taking Hip Hop on Thursday instead. We go straight from Tae Kwon Do to Hip Hop, and he is very tired after those two classes.
His agent sent us a note for a free acting class on Saturdays in November. He was able to claim one of the spots and will be doing that for the next four weeks.
Tomorrow he has play practice and then an audition to shoot crime scene photos and video for a pilot starting soon...called CVU. I am pretty sure it is a take off of Law and Order SVU, but the CVU stands for children's victim unit. He gets to be a dead body and have lots of cool make-up. I hope he gets it. Those pictures would be great for his portfolio.
Thanks for checking in. Leave Sam a comment. He loves to read them and he loves the words of encouragement. Hey...and if you click the link for follow this blog it will update you automatically when we post something new.
HUGS
T.
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