I would call every week to speak to the new contact, but he was never available. I’d also check the website to see if my audition demo would be posted and it never was. After a couple of months I figured I had been lost in the shuffle, and I’d found a steady gig in another place (as a production artist), so I stopped calling back.
Yesterday as I was just pulling in to my morning Starbucks, I received a call from the studio asking if I could make an audition that was due in 90 minutes. I was a little taken aback by it as I hadn’t had my morning caffeine infusion yet, and that the audition was under such short notice. Further confusion happened when it turned out that they were under the impression that I was still in my old city. After a confused exchange (and a quick map lookup on my iPhone), I found I was too far away from the studio to be able to get the audition it time.
Lately, I’ve had to admit to myself that I’m not as eloquent a person as I wish I was. I stammer. I take longer than most people to think about my response. I sometimes talk about a subject like I know what I’m talking about when I really don’t. (I know, these don’t sound like good qualities for a voiceover artist to have, but when I have a script in front of me and direction, I do a lot better.) I really had to fight through these issues and tell the studio that I was feeling thrown by this call. First, they didn’t know that I was in a new town, even though I told them about it and they had responded as if they were prepared for my relocation. Second, they hadn’t bothered to keep in touch with me and I was the one that was reaching out to them with no feedback at all.
I have a feeling it may have set me back in my career a bit. On the other hand I could get some more work and it will be an amusing story I get to tell about my rocky start in the biz. Anyboby out there in the voiceover field gone through anything similar? Is this short time-frame normal for this field?
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