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*** IF
YOU'RE UNDER 9 YEARS OLD PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR YOUNGER KIDS MATERIAL
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We'd like to review a self taped reading of the following three pieces of
material (please click on the links below to get the material):
www.momentumtalent.com/drama.pdf
www.momentumtalent.com/bunnyscene.pdf
www.momentumtalent.com/commercial.pdf
1) DRAMA:
(www.momentumtalent.com/drama.pdf)
is your typical Soap material (you will
play Derek - gender is not important to the scene), the challenge here is
not to fall into the trap of poorly written dialog and cadence and to find
several different levels in a very short piece. The back story is that
your brother (Bill) has just lost the family restaurant to a devious woman
the entire family has been warning him about for months (but he continued
to become involved with her anyway, and she wound up taking away the
family business).
We'd like to see the "close up" on this, very real/organic,
don't push or sell it like typical soap material. Ideally we'd like
you to hit three beats: 1) Hurt: start from a place of hurt (not anger),
take your time searching for the words because you're so devastated by the
loss, plus in the beginning you truly expect Bill to make the situation
better, 2) Anger: as Bill continues to NOT to take responsibility in the
middle of the material this would make you angry, 3) "Sheer
Determination" we'd like to see a transition right before the last
paragraph, "You lose Dad's restaurant"... where we see you shift
from anger to what we call "sheer determination", in other words
people are usually their most frightening when they become deadly calm
with a sheer determination in their voice with a subtext that says, I
don't have to yell or raise my voice, but you WILL fix this, or I'll kill
you in your sleep...
2) BUNNY SCENE / COMEDY:
(www.momentumtalent.com/bunnyscene.pdf)
A comedy scene because the son/daughter has figured out they're adopted
and is making their Mom squirm during shopping at the super market... this
should be played at your own age (in other words if you're in high school,
you should play the scene as a high school student and you're using this
dialog to tease your Mom ;)
3) COMMERCIAL: (www.momentumtalent.com/commercial.pdf)
is a typical jargony piece of Jack in
the Box commercial copy we use for commercial and 1/2 hour comedy "likability".
The challenge here is to forget about the words (vintage Meisner - float
the impulse on top of whatever dialog you're given) and have an organic
conversation with "a friend" about something you're reasonably
excited about.
Again, we're looking for you NOT to sell the burger - we just want to see
a natural, real conversation with a friend about something you're
reasonably excited about (this is a challenge given the dialog - but the
test is whether a real friend would believe the delivery or sense this was
a commercial).
If you could please self tape these three
pieces of material (iPhone, etc. is fine) and upload to www.momentumtalent.com/imtaupload
that would be great (if you have other demo material, scenes or monologs available
you can also return an on-line link to info@momentumtalent.com
or upload to www.momentumtalent.com/imtaupload
as well).
*** VIDEO TIPS ***
SLATE: Please start your video with Your Name, Your IMTA Number,
Your Age, Where You're Located and Your Current School and/or Agency.
READER: You'll need a reader for the two person scenes (and your
eye line should be to the reader just off camera, near but not directly
into the lens). For the commercial, reading directly into the lens
is fine.
FILE SIZE: You'll want to keep your video file sizes small for easy
uploading - ideally below 300MB.
OTHER LINKS/UPLOADS: It's fine to return email (info@momentumtalent.com)
a link to your self tape on youtube, vimeo, dropbox, wetransfer, etc. if
that's easier. You can also email as an attachment to info@momentumtalent.com
(if the files are under 20MB total for each email)
We've also included some of our background information below.
Take Care... Mike, Garry and all of Team Momentum.
Garry Purdy
Mike Baldridge
info@momentumtalent.com
Momentum Talent and Literary Agency
NAMED THEATRICAL AGENT OF THE YEAR (GARRY PURDY 2024) BY THE TALENT MANAGERS
ASSOCIATION
NAMED TOP 6 L.A. BOUTIQUE AGENCIES FOR YOU TO KNOW BY BACKSTAGE WEST
NOMINATED THEATRICAL AGENCY OF THE YEAR 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 AND 2022
BY THE TALENT MANAGERS ASSOCIATION (TMA)
NOMINATED YOUTH THEATRICAL AGENCY OF THE YEAR BY THE TALENT MANAGERS ASSOCIATION (TMA)
3500 West Olive Avenue, Suite 300
Burbank, CA 91505
310-858-6655
www.momentumtalent.com
The Momentum Talent and Literary Agency spun off from the Beverly Hecht
Agency in November of 2006.
The agency is licensed with the state of California, SAG/AFTRA registered, WGA signatory and a member of the Association of Talent Agents
(the ATA,
after receiving a unanimous vote by its board members including ICM, CAA,
WME, APA, UTA, Gersh, etc.)
Momentum was just named Theatrical Agent of the Year (Garry Purdy 2024)
(also
Nominated in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2022) by the Talent Mangers Association
(TMA)
Previously, Momentum had been nominated Youth Theatrical Agency of
the Year by the Talent Managers Association (TMA).
Momentum was also named in the article "Top 6 L.A. Boutique Agencies
For You To Know" by Backstage West.
The agency was also on the cover of the Ross Reports with an eight page
article
and is consistently ranked among the top 50 most looked at agencies in the world according to the IMDB.
The agency represents a range of talent from Emmy and Golden Globe
winners, Two and Three Time Series Regulars,
Cients at the 50+, 80+ and
100+ credit level and a list of Clients at the 20+ Guest Star level.
The agency also represents select development talent.
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