This topic/discussion reminds me of a movie I saw recently It was called "That guy...who was in that thing". It is a documentary about working actors. Not Big time superstars like Tom Cruise, but the small time 'character' actors.
Anyways, there was one part in the movie where they start talking about auditions. All four or five of the actors they were interviewing for the movie unanimously spoke badly about the typical audition process. Some quotes taken from memory:
"I love acting, but I hate auditioning"
"You've seen my demo reel, you've seen me when I was on Star Trek, you know I can act, then why not just give me the part? Why make me go through this tedious audition process"
"90% of acting is reacting. You can't fully demonstrate your full acting abilities when you're standing in front of a panel of producers 'acting' out a scene that consists of 5 lines of dialog"
What the actors were saying about how they hate the audition process reminded me a lot of my frustrations surrounding hiring during tech interviews. Making an engineer do puzzles like FizzBuzz is a lot like making an actor act out a 20 second scene without any time to prepare or a proper "scene partner" to act alongside of.
I wish I could like to a youtube of the movie, but I can't find one. Its on netflix though.
Making an engineer do puzzles like FizzBuzz is a lot like making an actor act out a 20 second scene without any time to prepare or a proper "scene partner" to act alongside of.
FizzBuzz is self-contained tho, so maybe a better comparison would be to asking for a dramatic poetry reading?
Anyways, there was one part in the movie where they start talking about auditions. All four or five of the actors they were interviewing for the movie unanimously spoke badly about the typical audition process. Some quotes taken from memory:
"I love acting, but I hate auditioning"
"You've seen my demo reel, you've seen me when I was on Star Trek, you know I can act, then why not just give me the part? Why make me go through this tedious audition process"
"90% of acting is reacting. You can't fully demonstrate your full acting abilities when you're standing in front of a panel of producers 'acting' out a scene that consists of 5 lines of dialog"
What the actors were saying about how they hate the audition process reminded me a lot of my frustrations surrounding hiring during tech interviews. Making an engineer do puzzles like FizzBuzz is a lot like making an actor act out a 20 second scene without any time to prepare or a proper "scene partner" to act alongside of.
I wish I could like to a youtube of the movie, but I can't find one. Its on netflix though.