Felly gydag ystod, mae'n fyddwch i'ch bod ni'n dweud, rwy'n gynnwg, rwy'n gweithio yn mynd. Felly yw'r ddydd ar gyfer y dda'r ddweud, rwy'n gweithio'n ddysgrifft. Felly rwy'n ddweud, mae'r ddweud o oes o'r ffordd. Rwy'n gweithio'n ddweud o'r ddweud, mae'n gwneud ein gweithio'r prydysgol.  Rydych chi'ch wedid yma, I'll show it to you at the very end. It'll take you to a website link on my site with loads of things you can read more. I hope there'll be one thing that will quite fascinate you and you'll want to take back to your place of work. So capital CPD, lower case pack. I'll show you that at the end. So my first rhetorical question, why are teachers leaving the profession? So I just want to share some research. Now Nicky Morgan if you remember Nicky, Education Secretary of State. If you look at your statistics with Secretary of State, they kind of disappear after 801 days. So Damien Hines has got about 400 days to go. I predict when Brexit actually happens, we might see a cabinet reshuffle. 44,000 teachers responded to this survey. I do think we have come a long way but I don't think we're there yet. 44,000 teachers said putting information on to Sims, Isams, Progresso, whatever platform you use is driving me crazy. Second one was marking. So in the last two years I've been teacher training full time. I've probably been to about 100 schools across the UK. It's been the most amazing privilege of my career. It's going to work with colleagues. And when I do live voting on your devices, I won't do it today. But every setting I visit, primary, independent, international, marking is driving teachers nuts. So what we need to do as school leaders, and when I say school leaders, I mean anybody with a teaching and learning responsibility, who's in charge of looking after somebody else, that's what I mean by leadership. We have a duty to go back to our places of work and actually try to reduce teachers' workload. Third one I've got here is staff meetings. Hands up if you like a meeting, anybody? Hands up if you like a meeting, anyone? Oh, Julian, okay, good. So I've asked the question to 15,000 teachers. I think about 151 hands now. No-one likes meetings, so why do we keep doing them? Keeping people busy, trust people, research shows if you have a stand-up meeting, they'll go quicker. So the next time you meet difficult mum and dads, or Ross who's a bit nought in your classroom, you have your parents, don't sit down, it would be my top advice.  It's good for your mental health. Some Asian schools I've researched and visited, they have amber, orange and red lines with the number of minutes painted on, and it's painted throughout the corridors and into the playground. You just follow it subconsciously as it counts down, and you follow the lines of its 15-minute meeting, you follow the red line. It's great for visible presence around school, good for your mental health. A colleague at Cambridge I'm working with, Jude Brady, put this research out last year, April. She looked at the differences between independent teachers and state school teachers. Both teachers in both settings work in excess of 55 hours per week to keep up with their workload. The key difference between state school teachers is they're often asked to complete meaningless tasks. So they don't mind doing the hard work, it's just they don't believe in what they're being asked to do. So that's quite interesting. Not a lot of people look at the Department for Education's census. I only started to look at this when I started a blog and I was getting critiqued from all around the world and being challenged. So I started to have to access research and data to be, I guess, credible if I was blogging to 200,000 people a month. The data's really clear, it goes back 20-plus years. 20-ish thousand teachers enter the profession every year, year on year. Last year was the first time ever in the data collection more teachers left England, state schools than ever before. Now the data's out in a couple of months from the department. I'm going to predict that it's going to happen again for a second year in a row. And we'll know the pupil population enters secondary schools in 2025. We're going to need double the number, 47,000. When you look where I put the red circle on the left, a large one, we often hear in the press teachers leave within the first five years. Well actually when you look at the data, it's first three, but we're not going to tell the public that because it's much more waste of taxpayer cash. So actually people in the room who are in their first to second third year teaching, you are at your most vulnerable and I believe NQT induction is not enough to see you through 20-plus years. I'm off the scale, I had about 36% chance of staying teaching. Every year you're in, you drop 2% in terms of the data. So work out where you are in the chat, have a little look. Did you know there are 350 qualified teachers in England today qualified who aren't in schools? I've always believed we have a retention crisis, it's not just a recruitment crisis. We can't keep our teachers and we can't entice them back. 350,000 folks. Anyone heard of this word? Phrenesis. It means professional wisdom. I discovered it from Hal Roberts who's on Twitter, great chat. We were at a conference together in Germany last October and he mentioned this word, professional wisdom. What it looks like in the classroom is I give Chris here at the front a glower, not sure, nonverbal one eyebrow. Chris moves seats without me speaking. That's my experience, my behaviour management, not talking, nonverbal communication, Chris moves. That's an idiosyncratic decision I make on my feet every day in the classroom thousands of times in my internal database. I can't put that glower on Sims sadly. It really is important to me in the classroom and to Chris. But sadly our politicians or our school leaders don't want that data. Phrenesis matters. What the research shows, you're familiar with Professor Becky Allen and Dr Sam Sims, they wrote a fabulous book called The Teacher Gap, loads of solutions for the retention crisis. Their research has unpicked that most teachers reach their optimum performance in their third or fourth year of teaching. I think we need to do more to help our teachers in those first early years. Why do teachers leave? This was out a couple of summers ago. It's workload and off-stead pressure. It's not behaviour. Yes, we all teach tough classes, we work in difficult schools. It's not salary even though we know we should be paid better. When you look at James Varky research, which is published every five years, the data shows the public believe we work less than we actually do and we're paid more than we actually are. So we need to change the narrative. This is interesting. When you leave teaching, come back to teaching and leave again and try to raise a family. The job where we're in the business of kids isn't compatible with having our own family and I recall when I had my son seven years ago as a deputy head teacher, it was an absolute nightmare to try and balance dropping off at nursery and trying to get into the school gates on time. So we need to do more in flexible working and I hope the government, they have published quite a few things recently, they can do a lot more to entice more people in. On my travels, I've met five co-headships in five schools sharing the headship role and I think that's quite a nice thing to see. Next rhetorical question, so I guess in schools, but in your workplace, if you're not in a school, what's your employer doing to support mental health? We all have mental health, but we're not all mentally ill. There's a big difference. So things like going for a jog, I've just bought myself a lovely little border collie, I'm out at the park, I have to be out every day and it's wonderful. So what's your employer doing? So this is a little insight behind the scenes as to what I see on Twitter. About every three months, 18 million people see my tweets. It's quite frightening, quite a responsibility, about six or seven million a month. I've asked the same question, I'm going to put it out in the summer actually, for the last two or three years. On the left, who's driving teacher workload? Ofsted or school leaders? The deputy head at the time was quite gutted to see 71% of my followers said it's school leaders. So I had to start on picking it a bit more. On the right, I broke it down at the DFE, Ofsted. Or is it teacher habits or school leaders? It came back to school leaders again. When I say it, I mean leaders in a broad sense. If you're responsible for someone else, you are a school leader. I did it again in January and I'm going to put one out next month. Still school leaders. So I wonder what the issue is, because I've worked with thousands of school leaders and I've been with myself and I know the burden that they are under too. I get these all the time. I'm not a fool to think I don't know the full picture, but I'm literally getting these once or twice a week. I assign people to the right charities or if I don't have any expertise advice, I do what I can to forward it on. I've just been told by a deputy head that a childcare emergency is not an acceptable reason for attending a directed time meeting. Both my wife and I are teachers. This chap's now left at school. Another one, I'll quote him.  At the bottom, it keeps me awake at night, if I'm honest. These are experienced people. That box says I've gone four days a week to cope and I'm just working the same number of hours.  I'm not encouraging these, I'm getting these all the time. Now, it's very easy on social media for us to all think the world's rosy, it's far from it. It took me six months to share this picture publicly. This is two weeks, a photo I took of myself two weeks after my school was placed in special measures. My head teacher was sacked, half my school leadership disappeared, I had to step up acting head teacher some days. So here it is, blepharitis. This is my body saying, Ross, you're stressed, you can't cope with the impact. I lost my job eight years ago and I took voluntary redundancy. My stigma associated with, are you difficult to work with, Ross, so you're not very good? All that perception still exists today. With school funding it's even harder for head teachers to keep the right people in the job. So I had to go through all these decisions, nosebleeds, diarrhea, four hours sleep over a two-day inspection. Shall I go redundant again or shall I try something different? So I chose to have a better life. And we think we have a retention crisis when we have a high-stakes accountability model that pushes people out of the profession. I've made freedom of information requests, quite a habit of mine, so if you're on my blog you'll be familiar of where Damian Hines, Amanda Speelman, Nick Gibb, what skills they prefer to visit. It's generally London schools and good or outstanding academies. So if you work in a tough state school folks, requires improvement, you've got no chance of a visit from education royalty, I'm afraid. I've unpicked this note here at the very bottom. You can see all the numbers have been reminipulated to suit what the lead inspector thinks. Even after a conversation with me, for an hour from a hundred teachers teaching night and day, three-year programme of developing teaching and learning, the whole world's sucking up my ideas of mark plan teach, but apparently one person pops in and doesn't think it's very good. Well, I think we need to change the narrative in terms of accountability. Now I know you've done a quiz on your voting devices before. My technology's failed me, so I'm going to just stick these questions up and turn to your partner to give me an answer. What do you think? If I take ten kids out of your class, what do you think happens? A, B or C, substantial, small or no change at all? Turn to your person. Make a vote. I've got ten of these. Okay. So, I will give you the link so you can look at all this research. I've got ten here. I'm going to whizz through them all. If you find one that's interesting, then I would recommend look at the research paper. I'll give you the hyperlink to download it. Take one back to your school and have a little look. So, the correct answer here, and it's all up for debate, I know, and context is key. But the correct answer here is B, it's pretty clear, it makes a small increase. Question two, what's the greatest benefit then? Is it less stress for you? Better feedback for kids or more individual attention? Turn to your partner. Make a choice. Okay. Correct answer, folks. Correct answer is A, it's less stress for the teacher, but it is open to discussion. I'll sign post you to the Education Endowment Foundation, which you should all be aware of. The Teaching and Learning Toolkit, they had a piece of research come out and marked improvement, feedback quality, not quantity, essentially. Okay, ICT, very applicable for today. What does it do? Does it enhance learning? Does it motivate kids, reduce my workload, promote activities if it's aligned with subject content or give kids more control? Turn to your partner, 30 seconds. Okay. So, correct answer here is C. But if you chose D, then let's give me an example, so grab my ear later and give me an example and tell me how, describe how that technology changed your thinking. Question four, which of these is best supported by evidence, giving kids a one-to-one iPad using your whiteboard or for technology for short bursts of activity? Turn to your partner. Okay. Easy. Should be C. Short bursts. Okay. Retrieval, practice, cognitive science should be familiar with all this stuff, particularly active on social media at the moment. When's it a good time to test kids? A. Never. B. Before. Test what they don't know. C. Immediately after. Or let them forget, then test them. You can choose more than one. Okay. B, C and D are all supported by research in this case. Okay. One more on testing. After studying a topic, students remember more if they spend the same amount of time study it again in a single session, shorter sessions, study it again and be tested, or repeatedly be tested but don't study. Big difference. Okay. You can choose more than one. Okay. So the correct answer here, or they're all correct, but D is the most strongest backed by research. C works sodas B and sodas A, but it's recommended to use D first, A the least. Okay. Repeaterly test kids, but don't study it any further. You'll be familiar with the terms interleven in space practice, I hope. All on my website. Learning styles, it's good to just ask this question. Does it determine which part of the brain, I know you've been asked this from earlier, something similar, how well they can learn? Or nothing about performance? Maybe or C, I'll turn to your partner. Okay. Correct answer is C. Learning styles have been largely debunked, still quite predominant in the US actually, but research is very clear, it shows nothing about how we learn. Question eight, I'm going to skip C again. There's no correlation within how we learn and what style we have. It's not to deny they don't exist, by the way. Question nine. For students who lack confidence reassured them that they are good at x, y, z, so whatever that is, reading is most likely to A, B or C. Okay, have a little quick chat to your partner. Okay. So this research comes from Carol Dweck, in her work mindset about the pleasure of meeting Carol. She's very frustrated that her research has been lost in translation. However, the correct answer here is B, you need to make kids think that this strategy matters, so whether it's doing an equation or cutting out a piece of wood in a DT, clash on whatever it is, explicitly link it to that strategy matters. In that case, particularly for the exam season, which is right now, if a student gets a poor piece of work, how can I get best improvement from them? What should I do? A, B or C, turn to your partner. Which one? Okay. So correct answers, folks. Carol Dweck's research is clear on this. Use C, but do it through B, not A. Don't say, ah, never mind, give me a cuddle. Doesn't help learn and again context is key. You might work with vulnerable kids, autistic kids. You know those types of settings, I understand, but show your frustration. I've taught you this before for anesis. It means professional wisdom. How do you spell it? Okay. And then link it to C. Link it to an actual strategy and lack of effort. Okay. So there are papers. There's the link at the top. Capital TTR can download this three page with all the links. This comes from this paper just at what makes great teaching with Professor Robert Coat at Durham University, their institution, the Centre of Education Management. Fabulous research. If I think back to six years, part of their research myself and a few other bloggers was quite instrumental in getting rid of ofstead grade in lessons back in 2013. I haven't got time to talk about that today, but it's worth checking out. The paper on the left, Barrett Rosenstein, this is doing all the rounds on social media. I suspect it won't reach schools for another five years, so I'm giving you a heads up. Take a look. If you put that on my website, 17 principles, what I've done is research rarely tells teachers what to do. It gives you the findings, but what does it look like in my classroom? What I've done here is I've looked at the research, I've written a paragraph of what it says, I've then written a paragraph of what it would look like in the classroom, and here's a link. So type that title in my site and you'll get a nice read. Take it back to your schools, wait till after the exam season and talk about it and look at what it looks like in your department, your year teams or your own subject. It's absolute gold dust. Rosenstein's research. This is 40 years of teaching and learning research, his paper. Passed away in 2002. University of Chicago. Barrett Rosenstein, great stuff. Right, some quick bad science, got 10 minutes. I'm going to go through as much as I can. 35% of skills in my research still grade teachers. Still grade teachers. The pop in, you've been teaching 10 years but we'll judge you in 30 minutes. Why do we do that to ourselves? Aren't we wanting to be professionals? Then we'd report to Governors and again this might have been stemmed from accountability, what Ofsted want to do. If you work in a school or you've got a colleague who still grades lessons, the research is clear, this is quite instrumental. I can come and grade you, say you're good or requires improvement. Someone else will come and give you a different grade up to 78% chance. So my top tip here folks, don't ask for a second opinion if you get outstanding. If you get an adequate 90% chance, definitely ask for a second opinion. I think as a teacher when I was getting graded I asked for second opinions when I got required improvement, I didn't believe it. When I got outstanding, I kept quiet. I got all the badges of school leader too. And guess what, in 25s of teaching, apart from being a bit more immersed in cognitive science and research, I've been doing pretty much the same thing for 25 years. It's the type of school in which you work that makes the difference. This is only the one piece of research of its kind. What happens after Ofsted grade you on teacher retention? Well, no surprises. Getting an adequate judgment 5% of your workforce will disappear. Outstanding, most people will stay. I've got some books here as prizes. I've got some PhD research with one of my bloggers here. Toxic schools. Will you like to put this topic under the carpet and ignore it? But there are lots of people choosing to work in tough schools where it goes against them or they're working in toxic leadership situations where it's bad for teachers' mental health and say it's bad for kids. This also, Ofsted, I've always said for 26 years it's what parents want. They want schools to be graded. Hopefully next term, this term, they're going to actually publish that research. They've never done it before. 19% of parents read the full report. I bet we all read the report when we go for a job. So could we be fueling the system ourselves? We need to change the narrative. Let's stop doing this. We never put we are requires improvement. Come to our school please. So change the narrative. Let's do this instead. Mr McGill says it's great to work at this school. They really support my professional development. Put that on your letterhead. Put that on your gates. Put it on your pencils and whatever else. I used to love being a student at this school I'm now training to be. Or I feel safe and happy at this school, XYZ. We need to change the narrative. Pull down your posters. Let's put up our own ones. Appraisal research. Michael Gove, I'll say it quietly. He follows me on Twitter. I'm not bragging about it. But when I met him in 2014 and we talked about performance-related pay when he introduced it as a statutory obligation there's no research folks to say that makes improvements in learning none. So a little bit of research typing that on Google Scholar you get 97,000 entries. Add leading to teacher improvement 76,000. Put in from 2010 it drops to 18,000. I put a little dip in there. There's none that directly lead to English settings that actually lead to improvements in learning. And then we dig a bit further the American Scientific Association 2014. I'm a good teacher so are you. We can get up to about 14% impact on kids outcomes. The difference I work with kids and gangs and nice. I've got no chance of getting outstanding. You work in a leafy suburb school. So the difference is 85%. We know wifi, cheatering and all sorts of things. So we need to change the metrics of how we judge our schools. This is interesting. It's not statutory but I bet most schools have got one. We put it out online. People pop in to visit our school. That's my schools one on the left. We spent three years building that. All the inspector cared about was marking. They went and looked at a few books on their own. No conversations. What happened? Here's a screenshot from one of said report. It says in the second sentence down. Some teachers are not regularly checking student misconceptions in line with policy. My argument is don't put it in your policy. In fact, don't have one at all. It's not statutory. Otherwise it would just go against you. So here's a little test. A little cognitive test here. Have a look at that sentence. You've not seen it before. It's in your short-term memory. Just like we do at conferences or in the classroom or when I come to inspect your school. I say how many letter Fs are in this sentence. You're under pressure. You need to respond and I ask Joe for an answer. Five. Joe, the sixth, call yourself a teacher. And so on and so forth. We look at phonics. F is a finished sound. O is an OV sound. What Joe suffered here from is called redundancy effect. She's looking for the F rather than looking at the sentence. Again, it's in our short-term memory, which is often what happens in the classroom when we ask kids questions in front of their peers, when we test kids for exams or when we do inspections or guess what, when I come to school, I might make a mistake. So resources. I'm going to skip through all of these. I've got three copies of my book. I'll give it to a few people to hand out as prizes later. Loads of ideas I've built up with loads of colleagues I've worked with and through my social media to give away. Yellow box. It doesn't have to be yellow. It's not backed by any research using yellow. It's the methodology that works. Find one thing, fix it. Great for teacher workload. Again, on my blog you've got lots of ideas. Number seven. Kids, before you leave, can you open your book to the page please? That's going to save me 30 seconds finding it later. Times 30 kids. Five days a week. Five lessons a day. 25 lessons a week. How much time am I going to save compared to you if kids leave their book open for me? That's on my blog. Five-minute lesson plan. One million downloads. Every teacher in the world needs to go to a lesson with a plan, whether it's on paper or in their head. So the five-minute thought process. Why how? Is a nice little methodology for new and old teachers. This is a great book, Leverage Leadership. There's a five-minute script for that difficult conversation with mum and dad on your feet. Ross, you're really good at this. Why do you do that? Let's identify one or two things to do. How long is it going to take? Well, I'm going to check. Tell me what you're going to do now. Lock it in. Tell me it back. It's a great script. I use that with all my coach and work with schools around the country. Resources, workload evaluation. If you've not asked your teachers, don't assume that you haven't got any workload issues. You need to ask. Workload plans, reflection questions. We often get a promotion, but we never get any training before, so we make a few mistakes in our first term or year before we learn the ropes. So how do we know? There's a little self reflection there. CPD menu. If I join your school, what professional development am I going to get? Is it transparent? A simple menu on CPD? Let me know what I can ask for and how much of it will be funded. Easy. So there's a link, folk. CPD pack. I'm just going to squeeze three things that I'm working on at the moment. On the left, verbal feedback. As a design technology teacher, me and my kids were banger hammer for five weeks and then we'd write an evaluation for one week. Someone would come in and look at our books and think there's not much work here. I'm sure lots of creative teachers in the room drama will feel the same. So that's led me to conduct verbal feedback research in the middle, social media and on the right all the insights that I've found on my travels. So the verbal feedback, I've got seven state skills, disadvantaged skills across the UK. This is their research question to what extent does verbal feedback implemented for two terms make a difference on kids outcomes. I'm conscious I don't want to influence the bias so they come up with this question themselves with the academics at UCL. That research is going to be published in September. My only warning is the proxy of engagement. We need to define that. Is it attendance to class? Is it participation in lessons answering questions? So I'll get back to you on that one. My current educational focus is looking at these four aspects. We all have a voice online now. We can learn things from one another. We can create petitions.  If you're on Twitter you'll have seen that a lot. I'm looking at all these very interesting maps of connection and where certain terms such as knowledge rich and wherever first evolved through the social media network. It's a kind of loose statement I know but my guts suggest that often what evolves through social media is a good number of years ahead of what happens on the ground in schools. So I'm unpicking lots of things. These are schools I'm currently working with in terms of looking at all the challenges that teachers face but what some schools are doing about it. So there's a real mix of jurisdictions, grammar schools, non-selective schools, all sorts and so forth. Head teachers are struggling with research led practice. I don't have time to access research. I'm time poor. Can someone please disseminate it for me, give me a three minute read and then tell me what to do in my or find out what's best for my context. We often misconstrw collective teacher efficacy which is John Hattie's number one on his visible learning but we all have to do the same thing. That's not true. It means look at the research, tackle it and work out what suits your kids and schools that do that are getting better outcomes. Head teachers curriculum, teaching and learning, send. They're really good at those things. They're struggling with research, assessment and teachers. They're struggling with their own wellbeing and tackling with the issues of pupil mental health with limited resources. I'm going to wrap it up. That's what I've tried to tackle. I hope one thing might have led to the promotion. You've got lots of links to find out later. I'm here for the rest of the afternoon so come and bend my ear. It's been a real pleasure. Thank you very much.


Now as you had seen in our previous lectures that the information that goes around is in clear text I mean if anybody captures that information that is available to be read in the way it is and for example if you are Sending your passwords. So if the passwords are captured in clear text anybody who captures it could know your password. So It is prone to something called eavesdropping, which is basically that somebody is trying to listen over the conversation So in networks what they have done is they have used something called the encryption Encryption is basically changing the human readable form using some mathematical function a very basic example or the first time an encryption was used was some Something at the time of the Roman emperors and they used to call it the Caesar Cypher So how it would happen is so instead of the alphabet a they would use C which is the third Third alphabet. So the entire message would be coded in such a way where Alphabet they have to use suppose they had to write ABC. So they will write C D e So this was one of the earlier ways of using an encryption. So later it started evolving by Changing the delta which is here. It was three So they would use say four or for each communication They would change just the number of shifts that they have to do and they would just communicate the number so that became the secret that they were sharing instead of the entire key and Even this was prone to leakages like somebody could leak out what the key was and Again the encryption could be broken. So in the current scenarios what we see is a very much more complicated Forms of encryption. So we have two types of encryptions one is called the symmetric and the other or other is called asymmetric Symmetric is the one we saw like in Caesar Cypher symmetric means your encryption or coding uses the same key and Decryption which is decoding uses the same key. So it's the symmetric use of keys Whereas in asymmetric encryption. What we see is we use a different key for Coding it and different key for decoding it as you said encryption and decryption So that was the example that we saw in Aditi and Balraj's case Along with encryption public private key pair or what we just saw the two key pairs as then as you were talking about the public part And the private part. So this can also be used to authenticate. We'll be looking at these three terms called Confidentiality integrity and availability. These are the three key terms of what security is about and There you will see how this encryption and a few other Techniques can be used to achieve those and along with this we could also use a hybrid method Which is like we can use asymmetric and symmetric So that could be in a way that if you were to send the symmetric key earlier that we were sending Which was prone to ease dropping So what we could do is send the key using the asymmetric encryption and then the Majority of the the majority of the communication could happen using a symmetric and why to do so because symmetric encryption is something which is Not that process in in intensive as compared to asymmetric. So you could just send the key by Asymmetric and we could have the communication in a symmetric encryption


Greetings and welcome to Behind the Curtain. Here on Behind the Curtain we're going to look at the world of community theater. I'm your host Susan Harrington. Today we are being joined by Karen Durvin. Karen is an actress and a director. Welcome Karen. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. Well I want to ask you of course a few questions obviously like I always have something.  How does one inform the other for you? Well I started out as an actor and it I think the easiest way to explain it is as a director you're sort of responsible for the big picture moments and as an actor you're sort of only responsible for your lame. You're responsible for interacting with other actors but you're responsible for your part of your part only and as a director having had the experience of that piece of it I had to then expand. So it was much easier to go back to acting after directing than it was the other way around because as a director having worked with actors I learned all of the things that I really liked about actors as a director and all the things that I thought huh I don't really enjoy working with people who do that. So the next time I was an actor I said I'm going to remember that as a director I didn't really like that so it made me a much better actor after directing. I found that I was a lot more specific in my choices when I started as an actor. My starting point was a lot more specific knowing that a director could then shape those choices. I also was a lot more polite to the other folks who worked behind the scenes having worked as a director because you see how much goes on other than just what you're doing as an actor. I find that actors in general being one myself tend to be much more selfish. We're only interested in what we're doing and what others are doing and the tech folks and directors have to be much more aware of everything how all the pieces work together and so once I had directed as an actor I found myself being a lot less selfish and a lot more aware of how everything else was working around me. As a director I found that I was able to use what I enjoyed as an actor getting from a director so specifically directors give actors notes. Here's how this beat this moment can be improved. Here's how the overall arc of the story can be told differently. So I used what I liked from other directors as an actor getting as an actor to inform my directing. So the things that I liked I then translated into being a director but what I also learned the best directors that I have worked with in my career find a way to tailor their directing to each individual actor. So they look at an actor and they say okay this actor needs a lot of positive reinforcement. They need lots of hey you're doing a great job so they give them a lot of positive feedback. They look at another actor and say okay this actor doesn't really need that they need very specific I need you to do this I need you to do that I need you to do that and so they kind of tailor it to that and so seeing directors who are able to do that really well and being an actor who kind of needs different things depending on what show I'm doing. I informed my directing with those types of things and I hope I have been somewhat successful at it but it's a learning process and every actor every new actor I work with informs being my being a better director and every new director I work with changes me as an actor as do my fellow actors. It's the best part of being involved in theater which I think you know as well as the collaborative process the the people that you work with it's it's not a solo endeavor it takes a lot of people to put a play together truly a village it does and as a director the best thing that you can do is surround yourself with really talented people and when you choose wisely the process is a wonderful experience as an actor you're kind of at the mercy you don't have that control you're at the mercy of the people that are chosen around you so you just have to make the best of what you're given but with as a director you have so much control over who gets chosen in that process with the producer and that collaborative process is what makes it worthwhile. Okay because here's the funny thing I was going to say to you uh well when did you begin acting and what drew you to it but some of them you've kind of already said yeah when did you begin I mean was it I was three okay so uh yeah I think at a very young age my parents were like okay what do we do with this child clearly she needs an outlet let's put her on the stage um so I went to nursery school and the uh my first I have this vague memory of like being on the stage and like singing and like dancing with like you know pieces of cloth and um and just loving it just loving the experience of um applause obviously when you're that young but just like being with people that you love and and creating something together um and I did it all throughout grade school and junior high school and high school and um and it was what drew me to it consistently was storytelling the ability to tell a story right like to be part of that storytelling when you're young it's usually fairy tales right like remember we did like Bambi like first grade or um and then as I started to get older I noticed that you know in grade school much of the storytelling was centered around male characters and boys um and when I was younger I got to play those male characters and boys because I was the one who always put their hand up first and said well I'll play the biggest part they have no problem doing that and when you're younger that's not a problem right you're a kid and they don't care it doesn't matter it's a fairy tale or you know so you can play the boy you can play the girl nobody cares um and in junior high school I had a wonderful drama teacher Mrs. Boni Udo and she recognized fairly quickly that I was a character actress and not a lead actress um because lead actresses when I was young were uh Angenous that was our choice we didn't really you know the the character parts were male parts um there weren't a whole lot of female character parts you were femme fatale or you were Angenous or you were mom that was basically it um and she recognized very quickly that that was not my niche um and she put up something at hubby that said or some shell that you were doing he said thank you for casting me as the Angenous it was usually an Angenous gone bad those I often had an opportunity to to play um but because she recognized that and she instilled in me the idea that there was still value in playing characters that weren't just pretty you didn't just have to be pretty um that kept my interest um and then unfortunately I went to high school and we had a an awful high school director who only put on like the traditional plays and yeah that and and so that um sort of showed me that we needed to expand the stories that we were telling um and and how how would we do that how would we find ways to do that um but I still had opportunities like we did Peter Pan and I played Nana the dog I was gonna say yeah in full dog costume I did my own barking very proud of that um and I played a pirate so um but that was the type of thing that I was relegated to because I couldn't play Juliet or Ophelia or the young Angenous not that those aren't wonderful roles for the right person but that isn't who I am um and so I had to sort of forge my own path so well then okay so then what what drew you to begin or why did you begin I think in a way you may have already kind of alluded to it to directing so that's why um it's you you kind of decide to take control of your own destiny right like how do you how do you get these stories told and the and the way you get them told is by telling them yourself um there are so many scripts out there especially now but even then that have female protagonists that have that are stories that are not centered around white men that can be told um and I decided that I if nobody else was gonna do it then I guess I was gonna have to be the one to do it well you know you've been on the the uh a play meeting committee with me uh yes Cindy Armstrong says well we know where Karen's going we know what's gonna we got an idea what's gonna be on her list and sure enough you did not you did not fail no boom boom boom boom boom no so well it's you know it here's the thing like for for hundreds of years thousands of years we've had one perspective right so um and people always say to me why do we have to do a season that has three shows with all these women in it I said because for thousands of years we had all these shows with men I'm just looking for a parody at this point like it's it's when you look at the pool of people who audition for us it's probably four fifths cis women non-binary trans and one fifths cis men so shouldn't the the stories we tell and the roles available reflect that as well I mean that kind of makes sense to me well there's a there's a uh a frame at the footlight club that shows I use a cast of some show and I'll never forget someone says geez they're not very pretty women are they and I go because they're not women it was all these men that were playing the female roles it's a female role but they had guys men doing it yeah and um you know the late Bill Dasha I remember he gave me a statistic once that said something about 60 or 70 of the plays that are written or written by men and the casts are 80 or 90 male yeah and then there's Karen who says and it's you know to me it doesn't sound revolutionary right like when we when we look at the population it's like shouldn't shouldn't art reflect the people who are going to come and see it and shouldn't if we are telling the stories that are interesting to humanity shouldn't we include all of humanity in that it doesn't seem revolutionary to me um and I don't think that I am the only person who can tell these stories I just saw that there was a gap to be filled and I thought okay I'll I'll step up yeah I was gonna say one of the few that stepped up so then so then what would you advise me to someone starting out I'll say with the acting first because I almost cannot see somebody oh I'm gonna go into directing and they haven't acted before um I so I think it's strangely enough I think it's being a critical audience member is a good step because we absorb so much content right like we watch tv we watch movies we watch plays and we know what we like everybody has different opinions but we know what we like and oftentimes the story is a lot of what we like because it resonates with us on a certain level but when you start breaking it down into like why did you like that actor you know um why does viola davis resonate with you what did she do what is it about her performance that that resonated with you um and you start asking people those questions even someone with no acting experience can say to you well she was really believable like I I knew who she was and every role she plays she makes a connection to the material you believe that she is who she is whether it's you know how to get away with murder or fences or you know those are very different characters in very different time periods but you believe that she's that person when you're watching her what is it about that um so when you when you're watching something and you're thinking about I'd like to try this acting thing look at that performance with a critical eye and figure out what it is that they're doing that you're enjoying um and we talk a lot about like in comedies like comic timing like what is it what is that comic timing thing um and it's the way that someone delivers a line you can tell when someone has the ability to deliver a line in a way that makes you laugh right like there's certain people who just do it perfectly um and when you see it you know it um and when you start listening to a rhythm and you pick up on the fact that oh there's something about like the pace of that I always say to people faster is funnier there's something about that quickness um so you can learn a lot just by being a critical audience member um and then to go into community theaters and not only be an actor but work behind the scenes that was good I was about like be a stage manager do the props do the costumes like work in all those different aspects because you think that well how's that going to help my acting and I'm like because you're you're being a part of all that process and the collaboration and your um you know absorbing things and you don't even realize it yeah and you get to see things in some cases if you're working props or you're working set or crew you get to see it over and over because there's certain things I think that oh I didn't see that Thursday or I didn't see that Friday night but then you know because I was doing less and so but you saw it happen in Saturday or Sunday and it's just I mean that's why some people read the same authors over and over but they don't like a different so then in in acting what were some of your favorite roles because I don't want to miss that wow um you know it's funny it's the the ones that stand out for me are always the it's so much of it is the the collaborative process says as well as the role itself um and I always the the more recent ones of course always jump out at you so um just last year I did a play called El Amosinary um and it's yeah it is it is so those of you don't know it's only three people and it's it's very wordy yeah very and it's intense and it's uh it's a story about um three women and it's a generational family story um grandmother mother granddaughter um and so it's uh the language is gorgeous it's poetry but it's challenging um it has its own inherent rhythm um the characters are so well defined their relationship is challenging so playing those connections and figuring out those connections um the the lack of props and sets to help you right because it's very spare and the space that you did it in yes we did it in a very small black box so it's very intimate you can't escape you can't hide which is right there yeah so you have to be true yes you have to be very truthful people are right on top of you so they they can read you yeah you can't hide yeah any moment has to be very real um and so the the experience of working specifically with those two other women um the trust that you have to establish um the rhythm of it um the the young woman who played my granddaughter in particular Cassidy was just so delightful to work with we had a significant number of scenes together and um the who played the daughter uh her name was Britt Garner she was delightful as well um but I also just loved the character like she was larger than life but she was also so flawed um and she grew up at a time when um women were had very specific defined roles and she did not fit to that very specific defined role um and so to find your place in a world that was not built for you um is a real struggle um and so playing that character was a gift and to say those lines every night was a gift and that was one of the ones that I felt like I could have gone on forever playing that role so that one in particular really stands out so then and I'm not saying you know because it maybe had a good box office or whatever but what was one of your favorites that you had in directing oh wow so again when you think about you know collaborative process it was probably five women wearing the same dress okay um and uh who would you direct that for uh Burlington for the Burlington players um and uh those dresses go around to them they did they they made their way around um and again I think you know partly because it was a cast of mostly cis women um which I thoroughly enjoy working with um the story was you know fine but the it was the the process of working with a group of folks who were so committed to their characters their relationships to telling the story well um my assistant director Katie Gluck was outstanding um she was my producer on the last show I just directed and and she is if anybody gets to work with her she's a gem and everything she does just a true she was she did a show at festival or something and I said to her you're gonna win oh no I said you're gonna win this award oh so this is a stop so when she won I said well you didn't win that so give it to me but yeah she's terrific she has so much knowledge and so many different areas of theater and and she's not a person who stands up and says pay attention to me so she often goes under the radar um and it's great for those of us who know because we can grab her when we need her but she she brought so much to the table I almost always work with an assistant director when I direct because um I always feel like there more eyes on anything and more hands on anything is is good um I I never for me it always seemed strange that one person kind of wants to be in charge yeah that's a lot it is I always want more people to to have eyes and whispers in my ear and did you see this are you feeling that are you you know I was thinking this um any kind of challenge to like why did you pick that why did you pick that for me to have to justify my choices um means that I have to really think very deeply about why this moment is important why this character choice is important um and she was so great at that but the whole cast was was so strong I think that's when I was uh Becca shore Allie McCann uh Becca Leighton Healy uh Katie Pompeo uh Shane Daugherty Jennifer Shea so that Jen Shea yeah oh my gosh I love that woman yeah it was a it was a delightful group of people Becca sure she's something else yeah you know there's people that you go oh yeah they're pretty good yeah they're good and then you see them with something else and you go oh my god you didn't think they could get any better yep but yeah and Allie McCann sadly has moved up to Portland, Maine um but she does theater up there now and uh Becca Leighton Healy is now uh she's been away from theater for a bit because she has two little ones at home and and Becca shore is going to be going for a while I know she is a new little one at home so yeah but it's you know it's just such a a lovely group of people to work with so that was part of why that one stands out in particular so is there a role that you'd like to do down the road I guess I'm kind of combining my left is there something that's on your bucket list to perform and or bucket list to direct so when I was younger there were a lot of bucket list roles right because it was you know like oh all these things you know these wonderful roles as I get older it's more about being a part of telling really good stories because what you realize as you get older is that there are fewer and fewer roles out there as you get older this is again coming back around to that who tells the stories and what stories are available out there so it for me it's more about presenting uh the work of really excellent playwrights um such as Lynn Nottage oh okay Brandon Jacobs Jenkins um local unknown unpublished playwrights um I think we just did at the Berlin players uh an unpublished work although it's about to be published um and I think that that is one area where I think community theater sometimes falls short um I'm involved with the AAPC group here in Boston um I get to do their uh short play festival often in the fall and the burlington players are collaborating with them for a show coming up in february march um and there are so many wonderful local playwrights that I feel like community theater could very easily take one show in their season and and produce an unpublished script there are usually voices that we don't get to hear very often I'm happy to direct and or act I'm putting that out there right now and any of those I think supporting new work is really important so so my bucket list is to bring any lesser seen heard voices to the stage for whatever reason um okay people she's just being cute she's not going to give me any title well to be fair I mean we're doing a a a clip just a short from um Brandon Jacobs Jenkins play everybody for Vokes scene night okay um so that is a title that I think that people should pick up on uh it was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize so you think it would be more more well known um but no um why BIPOC playwright right um Hovey is doing appropriate so Huzzah um but I know Lynn Nottage's sweat is starting to make the rounds that's great yeah that's great um so I and listen I mean it's wonderful to see some of the big names like Sarah Rule and Lauren Gunderson some of these fantastic female playwrights are starting to be standard on people's um season lists that's wonderful to see we need more of that um but uh Larissa Fasthorse the Thanksgiving play that's starting to show up great more of that right so there we go Karen thank you for joining us here behind the curtain I'm Susan Harrington and our guest was Karen Durvin thank you thank you


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Hey everyone, welcome to this week's video update today's Friday June 23rd Don't forget to join us Monday morning for the live streaming on Facebook and YouTube where we do our trade of the week and our Contest of the week Let's jump into the trades that we that we did starting with Monday June 29th. Excuse me June 19th We we closed out a our put side of Of the soybeans July position, so there's only four days to expiration. So we got a little bit of a down move which helped us out Excuse me got a little bit of an up move that helped us out And we were able to get an overall kind of a small profit on that on that soybeans position So and then we also have the other Iron condor that's still on In soybeans you can see here I've got a little bit more room to the downside before we need to adjust on that soybeans position But that one's out in August. So we got a lot of time left there about 28 days. So we will continue to monitor that Next trade was in EFA. So This is the one I sent the video out on we They ended up EFA paid a dividend that they pay twice a year. It wasn't reflected on the platform So we didn't really know it was coming. So we got a sign For every for every contract. So you get a sign 100 shares of short stocks We had four got assigned 400 shares of stock and so we took a a small loss on that overall position But if you haven't watched that video Make sure you go back and do that if you don't understand Getting sign assigned stock bottom line is if that happens All you got to do is just just cover your position get out of the whole thing move on Those things happen every once in a while Next trade was a the closing trade for the QQQ strangle. So we only were in that for seven days Got a nice contraction in IV made over 30% of max profit in just seven days Next trade was in oil so this was a An opening adjusting trade. So we added another strangle in oil IV wasn't over 50 But it was you know high enough to to put on that adjusting trade and and I do like trading oil quite a bit because of the The risk reward and the bang for the buck that you get so let's take a look at oil So now we've got this adjusted strangle here and if it keeps moving down We'll make another adjustment will roll our calls down again We're not inverted yet, but our next move would be to go inverted on this and in that August cycle We've still got 24 days. So next week Regardless if if it moves down or up or whatever. We're probably gonna roll that one out early next week We'll roll that one out to the September cycle So but the trade we were just talking about this has 55 days to expiration and this is a this is our new strangle Still very centered nothing to do here. So we'll continue to monitor that There's the there's the video. So if you haven't watched the video about getting a sign stock It's right there in the alerts 21st. We didn't have any alerts on the 22nd. We did a closing trade in wheat So we close that out for made over 30% of max profit in 14 days Again on these iron condors kind of the standard amount We want to look for is about 40% of max profit, but if we get 30 in less than 15 days, we'll go ahead and take that off So we're completely out of wheat then we had an opening trade and and I bought a put vertical in The ES which is the S&P 500 future purely a directional trade to add short Delta Our deltas were pretty flat So I wanted to get something on that added a little bit of that short Delta to help protect us from some downside If the market ever decides to go down again, it's kind of suspect whether that's gonna happen or not But so so that's what we did there. I also mentioned on the alert that You can you could have done this in SPY or SPX I just like the risk reward that we got in ES and and I prefer to trade the the futures But if you don't have futures permissioning Or you just preferred to do the the equity options You could have done that in SPY or SPX and then accomplish the same thing So this is just adding some of that short Delta a little bit of a short bias You know into our overall portfolio Next trade was a butterfly in Costco So after the announcement of Amazon buying whole foods a lot of these Grocers and and other retailers got got hit a little bit which spiked the IV In this one we went with the July cycle with only 28 days to expiration So that way we're out of the trade before they announce earnings. So if we take a look at Costco Steve still see we're very centered Implied volatility has gone up a little bit Which is pushed our profit down profit line down, but still very centered We obviously we just put this on so we'll continue to monitor Costco Take a look at the chart. I mean look at this this huge downside And and the thought is a implied volatility is so high and we're hoping it just kind of stabilizes Around this price giving us a chance to to take a profit on that butterfly. I Looked at doing an iron condor as well But just wasn't getting enough credit to make it make it worthwhile So that's one of the other reasons I did the kind of tighter tighter butterfly instead Next trade was an opening trade in RUT So the Russell 2000 index implied volatilities at 6 Looking to put on a calendar to benefit from an expansion implied volatility So we take a look at rut and you can see Ivy's gone down since then even stand a one so The Russell definitely the strongest of the indices today can see up 0.61% at this time. Where's the Dow is barely up and yes is up about a quarter percent So if we take a look at that you can see Russell's already moved up a Fair amount on us since we put the trade on but still well within our range Remember our first adjustment is if it gets to the break even we're gonna add another calendar So you want to you want to keep that in mind as far as your position sizing and if the rut is too big of a symbol for you To trade you can always do the same thing in IWM Okay, I just I just chose rut because I like these big high-priced index indexes when we're doing these calendars and And so that's why I chose rut, but you could sure do IWM to get your position size smaller as well Next trade was a strangle in QQQ So going back to the well in QQQ IV still over IV percentile still over that 50 mark at 52 So we entered this one with 56 days to expiration So we take a look at the Q's you can see it. See we just put this on still very centered So we will look for potential contraction in implied volatility to benefit this position Next trade was in corn. So we needed to adjust corn. So our We closed the call side out we closed out a call vertical because price breached our downside So if we take a look at corn, you can see we've got we've got these two positions on now So we've got the Reset this sometimes for whatever reason on toss you have to reset that and Then you can click on the appropriate Options okay, so here's here's where that looks like it breached our downside Took off our call side like we like we teach in the core So looking for a little bit of a move back up in corn to to get out of that side and then Simultaneously we put on a new iron condor and we went out to September to collect some more credit widen our break evens in and add a little bit to that trade so That was the that was the second alert that went out on corn So the first was an adjusting close next was an adjusting open So those were all the alerts for the week. Let's go back and take a look at some of the other positions that we still have on I mentioned oil Yes soybeans DIA we still have this the call side of our DIA iron condor So we we took the put side off after it breached our break even here So I'm not looking for a little bit of a down move in DIA To benefit on that one Still got a strangle in Microsoft So it's just been kind of hanging out up here need a little bit of a down moving Excuse me down moving Microsoft and a little bit more theta decay and we'll we'll take that position off Got a long got a long time before earnings So no no issues with with earnings on that one yet and let's see I mentioned Keel and rut. So that's it so Hope everybody has a great weekend And we'll talk to you Monday morning at navigation training live on Facebook or YouTube. See you then


Benko, same here, I am completely humbled by the feminine, like a powerful goddess indeed, the feminine is a powerful gang, I cannot explain this to you in any way that even resembles, comes close to how powerful the feminine is, unless you've experienced it, okay?  It is all encompassing, it is all embracing, it is all knowing, it is, it shows you compassion and it can be brutal if it wants to be, okay? I highly recommend gang, if you're a male, if you mainly in your life been connected to the masculine to explore the feminine as much as you can and try to acquire some of that perspective and incorporate it into your life because we need it, we desperately need it, okay?


Good morning you guys! It is Tuesday and I'm about to help a friend with a self-tape audition that they have and then after that we are going to film another commercial filmed at home because I told you guys about that. I got cast for that audition that I sent in last week and I also have still been working on doing a bunch of research on my agencies in LA. It has taken me so much longer than I thought it was going to take me so I'm definitely going to work on that spreadsheet today but I'll see you guys in a sec when I am done helping Joey. Okay I am done helping my friend with the self-tape and I'm trying to see where I'm going to film now so I have this space that I have used in the past, this space here and they do want me to do a shot of my closet as well so I also need to shoot a little bit in here. This company sent me very detailed information as to what they want me to say. I have the script right here and the shot list very specific a lot more specific than the last one. For now let's figure out what we're going to do for the shots. Maybe these plants in the backdrop will be good except for like you know the mirror reflection so I can just move that around. Oh maybe if you can see my closet from the mirror maybe right here. I do really like this. I think I might do this again but from a little bit further so you can see more. Oh but it's going to be it's going to be portrait again so it's going to be like this. Oh yeah I think that looks good. You can get some books in the background. Okay I'm going to do it this way. I'm going to need some props too so let me grab the props and then I was going to try and memorize the lines before I started filming but the lines are really short so I'm just going to grab my props and then bring them here and then I'll shoot one line because that's what they want. They want B roll and then lines by themselves so I'll shoot each line and then I'll just quickly memorize each line before I start shooting because the lines are really really short so one of the things I need is money and luckily I have big money on this board like vision board and then I need leggings. I think they're in the dryer actually. And the last thing I need is a bike helmet. This shouldn't take me more than I'm gonna say 45 minutes. It's about 245 right now. I have my props sitting next to me and I have my shot list slash script and then I brought a pen because I'm just gonna check each thing as I'm going. I'm gonna go over all of the things they gave me first. They're like these are some general guidelines for you to be able to take the best footage as possible so the framing instructions is to shoot vertically. Okay oh I also need shoes that's what I was missing so I need to choose a pair of shoes. Why don't these look on camera? These don't look too bad. I just don't have any like new-ish looking shoes. These are the new-ish shoes I have. Okay I'm just gonna use these and then once I get to that B roll if it looks really bad I'll just change it to something else. To make it easier on myself I am going to and for them really I'm going to start and stop each video so that I can label it appropriately once I send it to them so I'm gonna shoot the B roll first. I'm done. Okay what time is it? 350. Okay it took me about an hour not terrible but I think it's because the B roll was quite a bit moving around but even then it didn't take me that long. I'm just gonna double check that I got everything. Oh I just realized that one of the lines that I did I thought it that was the end of it but there was a continuation I thought that one was a different one so I'm gonna do that one really quick. It's 4.30 now and I just finished. I just finished organizing all of the shots but I'm pretty tired I'm gonna take a little bit of a break actually and it's around dinner time so I might eat as well. Oh and I also need to go and upload these because when they give me the information the script for what I'm filming I have to turn it in within 24 to 48 hours and today would be 48 hours so I need to upload that and just from previous experiences it does take quite a while to upload all of this footage because it's pretty good quality so I think last time it was like 20 gigs of footage that I did. While the footage is uploading I'm going to clean up in my room a little bit because I got another audition so I actually have two self tapes that I got that they aren't asking me specifically to self tape just anybody whoever self tapes you know by the time they take down the posting then they will accept those so this one I'm just gonna do now even though I just want to stop working and take a break and go have dinner. I'm gonna shoot this one right now because it's one of those where they just ask you a question like tell us something about yourself and show us your space because it is yet another commercial at home like film your commercial uh the commercial at home and it is also paying better than the first company but I'm gonna clean up my room really quick. Okay I looked at the email again to really see what it was all about and I have my light set up here and in the closet again just like last time and you know what's funny just like last week I'm wearing this shirt I don't know I just I'm liking this shirt right now um so I looked I read the email again to see if they wanted me to also film it horizontally or vertically or horizontally or vertically portrait or landscape it doesn't say but I did read the the casting call again and it's not actually another company that does this uh you know a bunch of commercials it's a specific brand it doesn't show the brand but it's a specific brand it sounds like so it's an unboxing style video and then if it really doesn't say it like even when I try to submit it if they don't update the posting or anything I'm just gonna submit the landscape one because that's how I prefer to film I think it looks better so let's come over here and I'm I think I'm gonna just shoot it pretty much what I did last time because again they want me to they want to see the space a little too bright. Yeah the lighting is pretty terrible. Hi my name is Veljika Rodriguez and I am a whoa no okay I was really hoping to do it in one take but because of the lighting I think this is a take four okay I'm just gonna call it that's that's good if I if I get selected awesome I think the take was good the lighting was okay but it's sun is setting and I want to get this done today I don't want to submit it tomorrow because I would have to wait basically till tomorrow like 2 or 3 p.m for the lighting to be great in here now let's take a little dinner break for real like I just need to relax for a couple of hours and then get back to work because it's exactly 5 30 I still have so much work to do just take a little bit of a break and then we'll go and edit stuff and send stuff over it's almost 11 p.m and I've been working on editing that audition and just submitting to a bunch of casting calls for maybe an hour maybe a little bit more and then I'll see you guys tomorrow good morning guys it's June 16th Wednesday and I ended up falling asleep like at 11.50 last night I just fell asleep on the couch and I woke up with my makeup on which is terrible anyway I am about to select the winner of the um savage paper backdrop I told you guys in a past vlog that at the first Saturday of the month in June July and August I'm going to be giving away a paper backdrop a 53 inch savage paper backdrop not sponsored but savage was kind enough to be like sure you want to give away let's do it so I am screen recording right now so that I can show you guys the um when I select the winner yay Kawaii Dio 1 2 3 you won I'm just going to make sure that they actually live in the United States because for this giveaway um you do have to be in the USA but um the last show they watch was Corella which I've been wanting to go watch it's been out for maybe a little over a week but I'm definitely going to go watch it Kawaii Dio 1 2 3 I'm going to comment right now I'm going to pin the comment I'm going to reply to your comment so that you can email me and I can send you a backdrop yay okay I'm going to go shower and get this makeup off my face and take off my retainers bye hey it's uh Thursday today and I just got done um filming a video that will come out Monday I interviewed a couple of casting directors which I'm really excited to do and keep doing you know have a conversation between casting directors and actors I think that's really helpful um but something that I don't film almost ever is me submitting to casting websites and um right now I am doing casting networks um I'm submitting to a bunch of casting networks I just get email notifications and I go through all of them a few times a day as they come in if I'm able to I will submit to them if they apply to me and something that I wanted to do today that I um I'm also going to do is get an actor's access paid account and whip that together see what new hat shots I have put in there so that's what I'm doing right now I have my computer right in front of me and I am just submitting to a bunch of casting calls I don't know how much time I spend every day submitting to things on weekends usually you get less emails but during the week you get tons and tons of emails right now I have 50 unread emails from casting networks about different things it would be pretty boring to watch I can't really show you exactly the information that's on there because of course it's private unless they are explicitly saying please share this so that's what I'm gonna about that's what I'm about to do for the next 30 minutes or so just try and clear out this inbox and then work on some actors access I'm glad I ended up trying to clear these out because I actually have a media request from um who is this from Boba no casting in San Francisco so let me see what this is about I know I submitted to this because I remember submitting to this so this is due by tomorrow night and they actually sent this yesterday but I I had such a busy day yesterday and when I got home the last thing I wanted to do was be on my computer so um I just rested um so that's what I'm gonna do now then this is actually a super super easy audition so I'm gonna stop what I'm doing and do this it's one of those auditions where they don't ask you to say any lines but they just ask you to do an action so I'm gonna do that should take me maybe 20 minutes to set up and film it and then edit it send it over so hopefully right now it is 2 o 1 p.m. hopefully by 2 30 it's already sent to them so let's clean up because I was filming that other video it's a little bit messy in here and let's set up my self tape because this is the soft tape while I use but the paperback drop drops are not up so let's let's film the self tape for this self tape the actual the action that I need to do and no lines is pretty simple but I do have to do the whole shebang as far as the this late so my name height city the role I'm playing hands profiles full body shot I need to do all of that so um I'm gonna do all of the horizontal or landscape ones and then once I go to the vertical to take the full body shot in the video then I will do that but I'm gonna start here but I need to choose pants I really don't want to do black because the chair I'm gonna sit in for the audition is black but those are really the only ones that fit me and you to go get like all blue jeans I have blue jeans that are ripped but I need all blue jeans but this is a shirt I'm gonna wear I think I'm just gonna wear the black jeans done with this late now for the actual audition part I'm going to use a chair because this is actually um this person is actually gonna be in an office like in a medical office a doctor's office I got the shot so let's turn off these lines edit it and send it over the computer's actually right here so I don't have to go far to edit hey it's Friday evening and I was checking my email and I saw that I got a media request from a self tape I sent earlier another film at home but it's a specific company instead of a company that just produces a bunch of work um you know a bunch of film at homework I have that and then there was another casting call where again they're asking for a self tape immediately rather than inviting people to do self tapes so I'm going to do both of those self tapes I don't have any um makeup on my skin am I I'm debating if it's okay like I think my skin looks pretty good today I haven't straightened my hair and it's almost six o'clock I think what time is it yeah it's six o'clock and I really don't want to do my makeup yeah I think my skin looks good plus with the lights it'll be good and then the second one I'll just be doing right here I still need to add a light um that one's supposed to be somebody that works at an office so maybe I'll put my hair up since it's not you know too well groomed right now and then put some office attire on but that's what we're gonna do and the film from home is just some questions about myself plan something and then elaborate from there and then for the other one it does have uh one lines one line each for each scenario so pretty easy okay I'm gonna do the self tape first that requires me to just talk I took notes about the things they want me to talk about I'm gonna put them right here next to the camera in case I forget the order and this brand is an athletics clothing like a athleisure wear so I put on the sports bra and I think it's better that I don't have makeup one actually for this one as far as skin makeup and then my hair is natural and I'm gonna show some examples of the clothing that I wear so yeah I need to prepare a couple of outfits my god it's getting hot in here I'm done I'm done with these auditions I'm gonna go edit these self tapes and send them over right now and then maybe relax for the rest of the weekend unless I get another self tape but this week was pretty good decent amount of self tapes and a media request was it two I think it was two media requests thank you so much 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