Task 2b - Reflective Writing Task

A day in the life of a GHOST actor... So today was just a normal Friday in November around 19 degrees, light fog, apart from I was In the heart of a city centre with a population of around 2.6 million people. Oxford Road, Manchester. The home to many brilliant actors, musicians, writers and Directors. The only difference is that this particular weekend happens to be the weekend that My girlfriend and I are visiting friends. So everything is going brilliantly, and everything is going just as planned, we have a brilliant day out shopping and also a long night on the town.

Along comes Saturday morning and I am woken up to the sound of the modern day technology, an iPhone! Though this is no alarm, it's a phone call from an unknown number, unknown to me this phone call is about to end my fairytale weekend.

So I answer the call; this person who I don't know greets me by my name and knows everything about my career, he asks me if I can attend and perform a part of the script at an audition on the Sunday, I ask for more details and he explains to me the job that potentially lies ahead, everything sounds to amazing just to let slip by, so I explain to my friends that this is an opportunity that I cannot miss and that I have to cut my stay short and leave Manchester to head back to London early Sunday morning. They all understand and they wish me all the best.

So we pack our bags and head off on our 3 hour 30 minute journey. I then receive another phone call confirming that I will be attending and that I no longer have to perform a part of the script, he now explains that the audition is going to go on our look and the way we sound? What a way to depict who gets a job.

We arrive in London, and then have to catch a taxi to the location of the audition, when I get there I finally meet the person who I feel I have been friends for a lifetime with, he talks me through what is going to happen and what I should expect. I walk through the audition doors and there sitting about 4ft away from me are four people who are about to predict my future. We sit down and talked for a while about what he thinks, what ive done? And what he wanted? He then told me that actors are like ghosts they come, go, are important to some - but not to others and they can be replaced in an instant.

This is not a single day in the life of a GHOST actor, this is a career that takes a lifetime to perfect, to some people your be right to some your be wrong, but success keeps you going, the disappointment makes you push harder next time. Your just a blank canvas that an artist is drawing up. Sometimes it's not what you can do or know, it's about how you look! This Is a hard craft, but an outstanding thrill and rush.