A Guide to Filming Your Self-Tape Audition For LAMDA (2022)

Alumni Selina Jones and Ross Leitch take you through everything you need to know about filming your self-tape audition for LAMDA.

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00:04 – Introduction
01:00 – Portrait or landscape
01:56 – Framing
02:58 – Keeping the camera steady
03:30 – Eyelines
05:09 – Sound
05:34 – Lighting
05:53 – Background
06:35 – Wrap up

[evasun]

I just recognize Selina from KAOS! I first saw here from this video prepping for my self tape for LAMDA. I was just watching KAOS and saw her and thought she looked so familiar so I went on Google and it really was her!

[Lionise]

Interesting choice to use a Shakespeare soliloquy as an example of why NOT to look straight into camera... Macbeth's address to an invisible dagger aside, most Shakespeare soliloquies use direct audience address, hence all the RSC lockdown videos with actors looking straight down the barrel of the lens to appeal direct to us.

It may be a drama school preference to avoid this - but with Shakespeare it's not breaking the 4th wall, because the 4th wall didn't exist in his drama.

[tarilathompson]

this was so nice to watch i frgot this was for lamda haha

[jacklangboy]

Thanks so much, that was so helpful!!