Movie audition for your kid

If your kid is up for a movie audition it is always nice to know how these things go, just to be prepared, just to avoid the unexpected. First, keep in your mind the flow of the process: a casting director or agency puts the word out on the street that a kid is needed for a movie to audition; he, or she, tells talent agencies what they are looking for. Just keep remembering that, you need the talent agency for this.

How does it work, a movie audition for your kid?

If a studio is looking for a kid in their new movie, they ll let that know by means of breakdowns. A breakdown is a short text about a movie, new television series, or whatever, which describes very briefly what kind of people they are looking for, what the movie is all about, what and where auditions are going to take place. These breakdowns are only available to talent agencies and talent managers.

Your kids talent agent will go through all those descriptions and pull out the ones that he or she thinks are suited for your kid to audition to. They will of course stretch the guidelines a bit, but not too much. If a talent agency keeps on sending the "wrong" kind of kids to the casting directors, he will be very fast out of business. What the talent agency will do for your kid to get an audition for the movie, is to submit your kid as a candidate.

Think about all the thousands of submissions a casting director may have on his desk to go through. To speed things up, he'll go straight to the submissions of the better talent agencies, the ones that helped him before (that's why you need a good talent agency, again). And from that pile, he probably will focus on the pile with experience. You can have a stretch on what exactly is considere experience, commercials, public access television appearances, every little bit helps. That's why it's important to build as soon as possible experience for your kid.

And finally, the casting agency might invite your kid to really perform an audition for the new movie. Remember, stick with your kid, and support him, be enthusiastic. Never force anything.