Audition scam

[ranger100]

Hi
Did anyone else go to the CGTV auditions this weekend (7th Dec) at the Hammersmith Novotel?
They said that the select 30-40 out of the 300 kids that they see. I reckon they select everyone in the hope that you'll pay the $5000 to send your kid to LA for a week. If 200 people sign up, they've made themselves an easy $1m.
My kid got "the call" the following morning to say that they had made it. Did yours??

That video is bizarre, and really badly edited. This hero worship of Adrian has a hint of cultishness about it

Yep, that Adrian - what A CULT!

:o

I see enthusiastic people take the weekend off. It must be exhausting to be that SHOUTY all the time.

I used to live in California and found a lot of parents to be overly enthusiastic, SHOUTY and generally jazz handy ALL the ruddy time. It was wearing and felt very foriegn to me. Everything their kids did merited a LOUD good job even when it was decidedly average.

I gave birth to DD 1 in California and the nurses kept good jobbing me like over excited cheerleaders.... It didn't go down well.

GOOD JOB - if someone had good jobbed me giving birth they'd have seen a very British side of me.

I guess acting with Keifer Sutherland, Gary Sinise, Al Pacino, Kelsey Grammer, Marg Helgenberger, David James Elliot, Jennifer Garner, Annette O'Toole, etc. and a series regular role is worthy of criticizing. Amusing!
Yeah Chris, this acting reel proves he's OVER acting and from the theatre. LMAO!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3gtyKn-xBP4

Here is more proof of what a horrible actor he is with absolutely no diversity or merit and should in no way be teaching kids how to act. How could he go from drama to comedy and multiple accents...then have the audacity to run an acting program from kids??!! Unacceptable!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=uIgn1d_-9tg

Now I await the assault, negative rebuttals, attacks from the London crew Chris, piglet and the rest!! Have fun attacking me after my indisputable post. Lmao!! I love you guys anyway...you're all funny.

When my son was 10 he acted with Juliet Stevenson and Hugh Bonneville.
He can do quite a good Dorset accent
£30?

Although in fairness I haven't got time to set up pretend auditions and get people to fly here from America.

I'd love to do an indisputable post.
It must feel fabulous. I'd be complete.

ha ha, the Kraken thinks I live in London.

Dude, I never said that. You're mixing me up with someone else.

I said he resembled one of the acting greats, an actor who saved our world as we know it with his amazing skills!

Jeez. How on Earth could you misrepresent me so. :(

I'm hurt

Now then Krakken, what you're doing there is mistaking "opinion" for "fact". These are two different things. A fact is indisputable proof, it is an absolute. For example, "I am a woman", this can be proven by the fact that I have in my possession a vagina and aforementioned bosom.

An opinion, on the other hand, is entirely subjective. I may love ice cream, you might hate it, that doesn't mean either of us is wrong. It is subjective.

So putting up clips that "prove acting talent" are also subjective.

Anyway, I can safely say that acting and teaching to act are two completely different fields as well.

So not being a good actor doesn't mean you can't be an incredible acting teacher. So there's hope no matter which side of the fence you sit on :) which is good news for everybody.

Luckily you can find acting groups which will teach you for free, without a need to travel a great distance. Perhaps once your kids have earned their first $5000 they'll want to spend it on CGTV, but I suspect by that point they will realise that CGTV is a fun week's summer camp, nothing more.

Which is what it should be marketed as.

Ooh I missed the London bit!

Krakken, that's really insulting.

Now for the Geography lesson: the UK is made up of several countries (I won't go into the difference between countries and principalities at this point); Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. Each of those countries has its own capital (London being the capital of England). With me so far?

Mumsnet is a UK based site that is mostly made up of people all over the UK.

I myself am not even English.

I am one of them there Welsh people. We even have our own language and everything.

So now I hope we've all learnt something and grown as people.

I don't recognise all the names in that list although I can manage the ones behinning with K. My son has acted with a staaaaar (or two - some more stellar than others- one of them was staring out at me from the front page of a magazine when I was last queing in sainsbury's that's proper famous surely - quick set up a summer school child). The fact he can name drop if he so desires (I do encourage him not to) doesn't give him some sort of guaranteed acting skills or ability to teach acting. He's actually very keen to do some drama teaching in the future - so he's looking to start volunteering with a dance group for kids with learning disabilities that a friend of mine is setting up.

And yep - market it as what it is - a 5k summer camp. It looks fun - you (I sort of assume I'm talking to Adrian somewhere amongst all these CAPITALS) don't need to pretend it's something it isn't.

I have tears in my eyes at the 'grown as people'

I already pointed out that we're nowhere near London way back when. Which is why there's no point in being introduced to a London agent. Auditions for commercials with 24 hours notice don't really work when that means a 10 hour round trip & repeated days off school. If we lived in London then I suspect we could find an agent ourselves if we wanted one. My 5K would be going nowhere even if my kid networked like crazy.

Saintly :) that sounds like a brilliant project your ds is planning on volunteering with. Make sure he name drops a lot whilst he's there :o

I think the name drop might be wasted there though. I was trying to explain to ds1 (severely autistic with severe learning disabilities) who the bloke in the front cover if the mag was but he wasn't very interested . Hopefully I name dropped for everyone else in the queue though.

:o as long as the strangers know, that's the important thing.

ds1 wasn't very appreciative - he was just trying to get into his packet of starbursts before paying.

I'm picturing it now;

Saintly: shouting Oh look ds1! Isn't that Brad Pitt on that magazine?!

DS1: who? Stop shouting.

Saintly: You know! That lovely man ds was acting with! Brad Pitt. That's him! Oh he was so down to Earth! Ds learnt so much from him!

DS1: dunno. Spose. Starburst?

:o

Lol - sort of although ds1 can't speak & was refusing to even look at Brad (well Brad's equivalent). He was far more interested in 'nee nees' (sweeties)

I'm guessing he's not someone who's going to respond well to Adrian's marketing (unless you get a free pack of starbursts on handing over the wodge of cash)

:o

I would have been worse

FYChris: Oh look, darling! There's Brad on that copy of Take a Break! You remember Brad don't you?! Brad Pitt?! That's right the one married to dear old Angie! I wonder if he'd want me to pick up a copy for him. We''ll see him at ds's show! No, I'm being silly. Brad probably already has a copy! Oh he'll laugh when I tell him how I nearly bought it for him! He's got such a splendid sense of humour! Come along dear!

Your ds1 has his priorities right :o

Perhaps if Brad was holding a pack of starbursts I'd have captured some interest......

We both know he'd be looking at Brad, but seeing nee-nees :)

A fact is indisputable proof, it is an absolute. For example, "I am a woman", this can be proven by the fact that I have in my possession a vagina and aforementioned bosom

Fuck's sake, Chris! Don't say that on any of those radfems vs transactivists threads, you'll be ripped to shreds!