Episode 028 - Booking Commercials - Derek Mehn

Audrey Helps Actors Podcast

Jesse Lumen

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🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

This week Audrey Moore talks to commercial casting session runner Derek Mehn about what goes on behind the scenes in a casting office, and how you can book more commercials!

Mildly Interesting:

Audrey’s Mildly Interesting this week is the Pet Cube.

Derek's Mildly Interesting this week is Loquats.

Credits:

Host: Audrey Moore

Produced and edited by Jesse Lumen

This episode's show music by Ari de Niro

Special thanks to Thomas Snodgrass for assistance with microphones, Aalok Mehta and 108 Hill for help with the theme song.

Other music and sound fx provided by Audio 4 Video, AR Sound, Sound Effects Public Domain, Ross Bugden and SFX and GFX.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everybody I'm Audrey Moore with Audrey Helps Actors and this is episode number 28
0:07.6	feeling so great about your acting career you justesticulate as you talk at your auditions.
0:17.0	Today we have Derek Men.
0:19.2	Derek is a commercial casting session runner.
0:23.8	So he's the guy who's behind the camera.
0:26.3	He's the one who tells you the explanations
0:28.7	that you're supposed to be listening to.
0:30.5	Derek has been a session runner in Los Angeles for about five years.
0:37.0	He's also a working actor. He has done lots of improv and sketch. He's done the groundlings. He's had his own troop. He's
0:45.4	super great. He's also booked 25 commercials on his own over the last four to five
0:52.3	years.
0:53.0	So very well informed.
0:55.4	I really wanted you guys to have an understanding of what is going on in the commercial
0:59.2	world.
0:59.9	I know you all talk to me about being on a veil and like wanting to kill yourself
1:03.8	because it's just so much.
1:05.7	So we just talk about everything.
1:07.4	It's a super great episode.
1:09.1	Derek is really informed.
1:10.7	He's just a little bit hilarious and I think you're going to love it. So enjoy
1:16.2	I hope you're on your way to an audition.
1:18.9	Audrey helps actors because they don't know anything.
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