Los Angeles | Self Tape Studio
Self Tape Services
You got the email at 6pm and it’s due Thursday. We got it.
Come tape it here. We’ll light you, frame you, read with you, cut it, and send you the file. You walk in with sides and walk out with an audition tape that doesn’t look like it was shot in a closet. Because it wasn’t, and casting can tell.
$125 / hour · North Hollywood or online
The Basics
What Is A Self Tape?
A self-tape is an audition you film yourself and send in. You get sides, you get a due date, and instead of driving to a casting office you record it and upload it. That’s how most auditions happen now. The room barely exists anymore.
Which sounds easier, and is actually harder. In a room, you got the read either way. On a tape, you’re competing with the tape itself. Bad light. Bad sound. A reader who’s your roommate and now resents you. Casting is watching three hundred tapes, and yours has to survive the first eight seconds.
Self-taping is the business now, and it’s the reason this studio exists.
The Studio
What You Get When You Tape Here
Real Light
Not a ring light. Lighting that makes your face look like a face.
A Clean Backdrop
Blue, grey, whatever the notice asked for.
Quality Sound
The one people skip and the one that gets you cut. Bad audio reads as amateur faster than bad acting does.
A Real Reader
An actor, who’s read the scene, who gives you something to play against — not somebody flat-reading the other lines off a phone.
Editing
We cut it, slate it, name the file the way casting asked for, and send it.
You Leave With It
Not in 48 hours. That day.
