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Kevin Bacon
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Does anyone have any good sites with commercial audition scripts or cold reads to practice? Also, any good practicing techniques? Besides the whole practice 30 mins a day spiel...
 
Posts: 33 | Location: California | Registered: November 09, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Marlon Brando
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A good way to practice cold reading is just grab anything be it a magazine, newspaper, or a script that you haven't really looked at (showfax.com) and read it in front of the mirror focusing on your eyes as if they are the other person's eyes. Look down, and grab as much as you can and say it.
 
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Nicholas Cage
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All of the ads in magazines make great commercial scripts; all the makeup ads in Cosmo, Glamour and the car ads.... You can even grab text from the back of your lotion bottle, chips bag, cookie carton and start reading that... Or even junk mail from restaurants and other businesses "Try our wonderful citrus grilled chicken at El Pollo loco" etc.... Each magazine has at least 20 different scripts to read... All the makeup/skincare ads all have excellent copy to read and its free...
 
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