Saturday, 15 July 2006
During castings
all of the auditioned actors are recorded on video so
the producer, director, writer etc can all watch them
back and be reminded of who was good and who was rubbish.
For the auditions for 'Benidorm' I have been watching
the tapes on an old video player which I dragged out
of a cupboard and just had on the floor in front of
the TV in the living room. I decided to be a bit more
professional today (not before time) and buy one of
those little portable TVs that have a video and DVD
player built in. £159 from Argos, absolute bargain.
Positioned it on top of a filing cabinet in my office
and felt rather organised not to mention technologically
advanced. Watched the audition tape from Thursday then
realised I have about twenty obscure VHS tapes of shows
and concerts that are not available on DVD that I haven't
watched in years… I obviously now have to spend
my entire weekend watching everything from "Morcambe
& Wise Live at Fairfield Halls Croydon" to
"Frank, Liza & Sammy The Ultimate Event"
to "Bobby Thompson The Little Waster In Concert".
I have so much to do but of course will just sit in
my darkened den, blinds closed watching every single
last tape (at least once) because of the weak willed,
lazy, fat arsed old show business ham that I am. I feel
a song coming on…
