Check out some of the people who have applied for the BME World Tour so far. The following are a random selection of audition videos we’ve received so far. Remember you have until Saturday so there’s still time to submit your application.
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87 responses to “Audition videos, take two!”
There are way more applicants than the ones I posted, the people who do go aren’t going to be picked because they’re cute or whether or not they’ve put their foot in their mouth. 😉
We’ll probably be posting up even more videos because we thought ModBlog readers might like to see the videos too. It’s fun and exciting to watch them and get a little peek into what the people applying are all about. I’m enjoying the videos, anyway.
Also, I have been referring to the applicants as “replicants” in all of my communications with Rachel.
I vote for Thad Brown!
Shannon – The video SHREDDIE sent us is not the one I somehow managed to post, so I take the blame on that one. I’m not sure what happened but I’ve corrected it and posted the proper video that was submitted to us.
Shannon makes very good points. Rachel is professional and she takes this seriously because it is what we do. It’s definitely going to be demanding as much as it will be incredible and fun, it is work.
I guess I don’t mean to be validating it, my sister and I usually make a lot of jokes about our family because they fit so many of the stereotypes. I like to joke around with people, it’s never serious, guess I didn’t take into consideration that there are other people that would bother to read my rubbish 🙂
BME is pretty Jew-riffic, my uncle would be horrified! I don’t mean that as a stereo type joke either 😀
I joke around with my family and friends too. There’s a big difference though between that type of joking around between friends and family and posting things for the world to see. 🙂
Jew-rific! It should be on a t-shirt. It probably is.
Siren: It’s probably weirder for me than it is for you. I only know one of the people who posted on here.
Shannon: I appreciate your honesty. I assure you, however, that I’ve held an internship in a professional environment before (for what it’s worth) and know the difference between situations where I can act professional and situations where I can be…THAT. I was afraid of coming off too stiff and it seems that my video may have been too far the other direction.
Lesson learnt 🙂
I think BME should make one haha clearly you guys have the market!
We ARE the market. Ha. 🙂
I enjoyed the first movie until she called the dog over, she comes across as distracted and that doesn’t seem very professional. Also the fact her camera wasn’t angled properly kind of irked me, I mean come on, you’re trying to get a job here. Can you not get the camera angle right?
Amy Brown, what can I say. I only managed about 40 seconds of the video. “I’m 20 and a half *randomly raises index finger and repeats self* ” Individuality came across as a slight form of mental retardation, in the not so cute sense.
I’d go with number 2!
The only guy who seemed to put his nerves behind him and he seemed quite passionate about his work..
All the best!
I agree with Lornen. Amy came off as childlike and I could barely watch. I don’t think I could (if I were the person in charge of the tour) live with a person like that for 3 months. Not trying to be rude, Amy, but the cutesy deer-in-headlights thing just doesn’t seem professional or make you seem like a qualified writer.
The third video confused me. “Not terrible” at photography? “Pretty decent” writer? “I don’t have THAT MUCH experience”? Why is she talking herself down rather than trying to prove she’s qualified?
Overall, Thad is the only one who seems professional and (maybe) qualified, although I’d like to see a portfolio. But if he’s at the Brook’s Institute, he’s got to be good.
I hope the people judging look past appearances and look at qualifications, which is not what many of these commentors are doing. “She or he’s cute” does not equal “She or he can do this job.”
Is it just me, or does the third person down have huge blowouts? Perhaps it’s just me.
Lindsey: I really appreciate some honest feedback that isn’t “lol yer cute” or “You’re retarded and make me want to kill myself.” Thank you.
We’re posting these to modblog because they’re relevant and I want insight from readers.
As Jen said, welcome to Modblog. If you can’t stand people saying shitty stuff about you FOR NO REASON AT ALL then you’re not cut out for the job. You have to have pretty thick skin to participate actively on this blog because you will be burned at the stake for the slightest of errors.
I’m hoping that we’ll be able to post all of the applications that we receive, even the really bad ones, which there have been a few. I’m not going to point any out in particular but there have been some where I was thinking to myself, “what the hell was this person thinking?!”
Hopefully on Monday, we’ll narrow it down to the finalists and I’ll be setting up a poll for people to vote on their favorites. It will include their videos, their portfolios and other things they’ve submitted for their applications so that modblog readers can actually vote for their choices of who’d they’d like to see out on the road. Modblog won’t be choosing THE WINNERS but a finalists ability to drive a large amount of traffic to come and vote for them will be important since the point of the trip is to document but also to help increase traffic as well as new members for BME.
I know that the smoking made me look scummy and unprofessional, that’s why I made another one…and now everyone has negative impression of me.
maybe you shouldn’t have made the smoking video in the first place. regardless, that video demonstrates a part of who you are, even if you didn’t mean to hide that part.
even if you meant to hide that part*
No luck on the ‘jew-rific’ shirt front…I think we really are the market haha
Lindsay, I agree. Obviously he didn’t take time to even check what got uploaded to YouTube. First impressions are lasting, unfortunately.
I do get what you guys are trying to say, proffesionalism is important. But as a photographer/reporter/videographer, the idea is get to know the person you are interviewing/photographing and to get the best results you need to make the person feel at ease, sometimes coming across as too professional can put people off, being a friend -in these situations- will make people open up far more and this may mean having a chat and smoking. So no, smoking in the video wasn’t the best move, he has even admitted to that and re-made a video, but I wouldn’t just discount a person for their natural habits. I sound like I’m crying in my video but Im perfectly fine in an everyday work environment (as a photographer) it was just due to nerves and never having video taped myself before.
I know I should probably butt out but I have opions too haha
thank you, number 70!
lornen #60: unfortunately the camera was perfectly angled, but it was done in iMovie and apparently when you share directly FROM iMovie, it crops it in a very strange way. if you go to the actual youtube page this is stated. I was unaware of this and attempted to fix the crop after the fact but my video was already submitted so I couldn’t override it with another. I do not claim to know everything about iMovie (hence why I did not apply for the role of videographer) but now it’s a lesson learned. Now I know to check the crop (although I cant remember where) before sharing directly from the application on my dock. My baddd, y’all! haha
thaddeus brown!seems to know what it is all about but i would love to see hes pics before!
Also, I’m sorry presenting my lovely English bully turned you off of my video. I thought the whole point of the audition videos was to show our personality and tell about ourselves. My dog is practically my child so she’s a huge part of my day to day life. I didn’t really touch on s lot of the reasons why I feel I’m qualified because I guess I didn’t want to be redundant (but in hindsight I reckon it wouldve been a good idea haha
Either way, good luck to everyone who applies. I def know who shall be getting my vote on the polls! (& no, not myself!) haha 😛
# 72, i think it’s if you right click or just scroll over the little ‘film sections’ (very pro terminology haha) there is like a toggle to change the crop….I didn’t realise it auto-cropped either!
I think I’ve developed an addiction to posting here! Having the Internet on my phone turned out to be a dangerous thing 😉
#75 thanks! I’ll try to see if I can’t fix it once I get home! (I’m on my phone too haha)
fuck everyone
fuck everyone
Aww. A random outburst of affection! Love you too
Have any of you tried playing them all at the same time on a wide screen?
They all sounded the same. :/
Hey, I submitted my video last night and if it effects your decision at all, my friends think you should pick me. And they are good people. lol.
budapest heeey..!! kaelah won 😀
Amy-Brown was a complete disaster and painful to watch. No one cares if you have mods or not but don’t blame not having mods on anything other than yourself. I don’t have money or a job, but I have the load of mods and I’m sure that’s the case with a lot of us… if you really love em and want em, you’ll find ways to get em… You’re 20 “and a half”, not 11, stop acting like it. Fucking irritating.
I really don’t see the necessity of being so harsh. if your not the one organising this trip, then I think you should keep it to yourself, or at least give helpful criticism…not just ‘omg you iritate me by being yourself, life is so fucking cruel”.
I’m not willing to go into debt to get modified. My books are expensive. I have a medical condition with expensive prescription medication. I’m on work study, so I make minimum wage and can only work 8 hours a week. Don’t act like you know what my financial situation is like.
I personally took that as an implication, to just go somewhere dodgy and get whatever done. Far better to save up and get one beautiful piece, than have a heap of whatever done cheaply.
And I do get that lots of people are arseholes on the Internet, I just dont get why it still happens in a community where, you’d think everyone would be a lot more open minded and accepting of others. Not slagging them off for no good reason. I know it is possible, because people who are actually IN the competition, are still being supportive to their OWN competition!