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Book it on the breakdown, not the reading.

You will leave with a repeatable script breakdown, a self-tape setup that does not look homemade, and a library of takes you are not embarrassed to send.

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This is for you if

  • You get sides the night before and panic-memorise instead of preparing.
  • Your self-tapes look and sound like self-tapes.
  • You are technically fine and emotionally flat, and you know it.
  • You have nobody to read with at eleven at night.
  • You want notes that name the problem instead of saying 'great job'.

What's included

  • Audition Room with camera, teleprompter and AI reader
  • Virtual table reads with emotion and ambience
  • Character backstory interviews and bible exports
  • Take trimming, captions and audition pack export
  • Casting delivery with private expiring links
  • Graded performance reports and next-take fix lists

Working rhythm. Four short tape sessions and one breakdown block a week. Roughly five hours.

Your rooms

New-age tools in this membership

AI scene partner

A reader that answers on cue with the age, gender and character type you pick, and waits when you take your time.

How: Choose the partner, set the sensitivity, and run the scene — it speaks about a beat after you stop.

1080p tape recording

Camera and mic capture with take management, trimming and burned-in captions.

How: Record, hold, finish the take. Trim on the waveform, then file or send.

Teleprompter

Scrolling sides with focus mode, mirroring and speed control so your eyeline stays where it belongs.

How: Load the sides, set the pace, keep the eyeline just off lens.

Casting delivery

Professional, branded emails to casting with a private link that expires.

How: Finish the take, add the note, send. The link dies on schedule.

Content clipping

Vertical cutdowns of your strongest moments for reels and profiles.

How: Mark in and out on the waveform and export 9:16 with captions.

Performance report

Mr AP scoring choice, specificity, listening and pace — with the fix list for the next take.

How: Send any take to the grading desk.

The process, end to end

  1. 01

    Read as an audience

    One clean pass, no pencil, no character. You only get one first impression — spend it on the story.

    Output: Three sentences: what happened, what it is about, what it made you feel.

  2. 02

    Given circumstances

    Everything true before the first line — who, where, when, what just happened, what the world's rules are.

    Output: A facts sheet with a page reference beside every line.

  3. 03

    Objective and obstacle

    What you want from the other person, said as something they can give or refuse. Never a feeling.

    Output: 'I want ___ so that ___, but ___ is in my way,' said from memory.

  4. 04

    Beat the scene

    Mark where the tactic changes. Each new beat is a new attempt at the same want.

    Output: Sides marked with beat changes and a verb for each.

  5. 05

    Verb the lines

    Every line is an action done to someone: accuse, seduce, disarm, stall. Playable verbs only.

    Output: A verb written above every line of dialogue.

  6. 06

    First voice pass

    Only now do you say it out loud, and only for meaning — no performance, no result-chasing.

    Output: One flat read recorded for reference.

  7. 07

    Tape it

    Frame, light and sound it properly. Two takes minimum, different tactics, not different volumes.

    Output: Two clearly different takes, self-tape standard.

  8. 08

    Cut and send

    Trim the heads and tails, check the levels, and send it with a clean slate and a professional note.

    Output: A trimmed take emailed to casting with a tracked link.

Twelve weeks of structured activity

Phase 1 · Weeks 1–3

Breakdown discipline

Preparation you can repeat under pressure, not inspiration you hope for.

Nine-pass on cold sides · 120 min

Take sides you have never seen and run all nine passes in order without performing anything until pass six.

Proof: Marked-up sides showing all nine passes.

Facts vs opinions · 40 min

Separate what the script states from what characters claim. Mark every claim true, false or self-serving.

Proof: A two-column facts sheet.

Verb vocabulary · 30 min

Build a personal list of sixty playable verbs. No adjectives, no moods, no 'be angry'.

Proof: A sixty-verb list you actually use.

Phase 2 · Weeks 4–6

Tape craft

Nothing in the frame should distract from your face.

Room build · 90 min

Run the quiet-room checklist: kill reflections, fix the backdrop, get the key light off the ceiling, get the mic close.

Proof: A before and after frame grab.

Two-tactic tapes · 60 min

Record the same sides twice with genuinely different tactics and label them.

Proof: Two takes a casting director could tell apart with the sound off.

Auto-reader reps · 45 min

Run the scene with the AI reader and tighten the pickup — no dead air, no rushing the cue.

Proof: A take with clean pacing and no obvious waits.

Phase 3 · Weeks 7–9

Getting off the rails

Kill the flat, mechanical, technically-correct performance.

Anti-robot drills · 45 min

Run the unstick drills: do the scene while moving furniture, whispering, or with a physical cost.

Proof: A drill take that surprised you.

Character interview · 60 min

Sit the character in the backstory interview and answer as them, in their words, about things the script never mentions.

Proof: A character bible entry you can defend from the text.

Graded take · 30 min

Send a take to the grading desk and rewrite your choices — not your line readings — from the notes.

Proof: A second take that fixes the named problem.

Phase 4 · Weeks 10–12

The professional loop

Turn tapes into a body of work casting can actually receive.

Reel-grade material · 120 min

Cut three contrasting scenes: comedy, grounded drama, high stakes.

Proof: Three finished scenes with captions and clean audio.

Casting send · 30 min

Send a take through the casting desk with a professional note and a private expiring link.

Proof: A sent audition with a delivery receipt.

Next-take fix list · 30 min

Log what you would change on every tape you send, before feedback arrives.

Proof: A running fix list you review before each new tape.

Definitions you will hear

Sides
The few pages of script you are given for an audition, rather than the whole screenplay.
Beat
A change in tactic. New beat, new attempt at the same objective.
Objective
What you want from the other person in the scene — obtainable, specific, and refusable.
Given circumstances
Everything the script establishes as true before your first line.
Slate
The short intro on a self-tape: name, height if asked, agency, role.
Self-tape
An audition you shoot and send yourself. Now the default first round almost everywhere.
Eyeline
Where you look. Just off lens for scenes, straight down lens only for a slate or when told.
Callback
The second round. Do what you did the first time — that is why they called you back.
Playable verb
An action you can do to another person. 'Accuse' is playable. 'Be sad' is not.
Cold read
Performing material you have just been handed with minimal preparation.

Milestones that count

  • Nine-pass breakdown completed on ten different scripts
  • A self-tape setup that passes the quiet-room checklist
  • Two genuinely distinct tactics on every tape you send
  • Three contrasting reel-grade scenes in the can
  • A character bible you can defend from the text
  • Twenty auditions sent through the casting desk

Coaching, never ghostwriting

We never perform for you. The reader, the coach and the notes exist so you can hear yourself honestly — every choice on the tape is yours.

You are the sole owner of everything you make here. We claim no ownership of your work and never license it to anyone.

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