Hey ladies.
How are you?
Just wanted to share a tip. Let me start off by saying this specific tip applies to on-camera auditions only.
I love boots. I love wearing boots over my jeans. Ugg boots, high-heeled boots, riding boots, I love them all. They are adorable when you are walking down the street, hailing a cab, or grocery shopping with your jeans tucked in to them keeping the mud at bay and your legs skinny minny, it's true.
They are not adorable on camera.
I interned at a casting office and sometimes still free-lance there. Recently something came to my attention. A beautiful, slender, statuesque blonde came into the room. She slated her name. The camera pulled out to get a full body shot. I looked at her, oh so pretty. I looked at the monitor. Oh so pretty hair, shirt, nice jeans...
Wait.
Is she hiding cankles? She's so tiny. Why on the screen does she look like big-foot? Oh. It's the Ugg boots with the jeans tucked in. Their creating an illusion.
Now I had time sit and stare at the monitor and figure out the problem. An ad exec will not take that time. They have more important things to do on their Blackberry and MacBooks.
After noticing this trend I decided to make a few simple equations to help illustrate my observations:
Jeans tucked into Ugg boots + pretty girl + video camera = cankle hider/big foot
Jeans tucked into skinny high heeled boots + pretty girl + video camera = thigh thigh thigh all I can see is your thigh that looks larger than I think it should.
So ladies. Next time you go to an audition, just wear pretty flats. They look nice too.
And for those of you reading this who are not actors and are thinking, "Wow. How you look does not matter. Beauty is on the inside."
Well, we're actors and we're judged on our looks. Now, mostly that means "She's too motherly looking," or "She's too classic looking, or "He looks like a Frat boy and I want a Geek."
It's a thing those movie people do so please, don't take offense.
That's it ladies. I hope I made since.
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