He received a callback for a print job. The audition was pretty straightforward because the main part involved recording a 30-second video on his iPhone. The callback notice was emailed to me at 8am and it was due by 5pm.
Zach doesn't have school on Friday morning so I decided to let him sleep until 10am before I would wake him up with the audition info. Imagine my surprise when his alarm went off at 9:45am. He was going to spend the day with friends but could record the video before leaving.
I had some work fall into my lap between the time I got the email and Zach's alarm went off so I wasn't going to have time to record him. However, one of his friends was coming over at 10:30am so he could handle the recording. All the teenagers had to do was go outside to a nice sunny spot, record the audition and email it to me when it was finished.
Zach walked outside to record at 11am. About 20 minutes later, I got the audition emailed to me but didn't have time to watch it thanks to work. I finally saw it at 2pm and the first thing I noticed was the recording was shot from far away so you couldn't see any of Zach's facial expressions. I called him to record it again but at a closer angle.
He sent me the new recording and it was great except for the fact that he was standing in front of a fountain so all you could hear was running water. (ARGHHHHHH!)
I called again and asked him to go inside and record the video. About 15 minutes later, I got a new video with a closeup view of Zach and no running water.
It was now 3pm and still well before the audition deadline. Dana was home by now and went to the submission site on her computer to upload the video and some full length shots of his body. She then discovered the audition required his resume , a talent reel and a headshot which were all on my computer. I sat by her and emailed all of the info because she was far enough along in the submission process that it didn't make sense to start the process over on my computer.
We finally got the submission in at 4pm. The entire process took us 6 hours and involved:
- His management team sending the audition info
- Relaying the info to Zach
- Zach and his buddy recording the first video
- Watching the first video and realizing it needed to be recorded again
- Zach recording the second and third videos in two different locations at the home of another friend
- Dana using her computer to upload materials that I emailed to her from another computer as I sat next to her
It's amazing how many people and steps it took to get one 30-second video recorded and submitted. It was definitely a combination of teamwork and persistence that got the job done!
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