Actor Factor

I love knowing how others are contributing to a project. I’ve always been ultra curious about what others do on set. I like to understand the big picture and everyone’s role in it cause then it lets me do my job better. Summer and I recently met a Storyboard Artist, Jose Guillen, a freelancer in the LA market who comes from a comic book background. I was excited to learn a bit more about his process and got him to say a few words on the difference between storyboards in each category (Commercial/ Theatrical/ Animation). When you see story boards posted at an audition, look at them. You can garner a lot of intuitive information from them as well as get the full plot. You may want to ask yourself these questions:

• How detailed are the boards?

• Who’s perspective is the board coming from?

• What type of character am I expected to audition as based on the look of the characters in the boards? (ie. If you’re looking at stick figures you have more room to play than if you’re looking at fully colored/rendered characters with facial expressions).

-Aurora