[quote name=\'Sonic Whammy\' post=\'235128\' date=\'Jan 28 2010, 11:55 PM\']Agreed, I'm curious, too. I and a friend have multiple test passes with no callbacks. What's the secret (aside from what they tell you about being yourself and all that)?[/quote]
This is what helped me more than anything, and this is the advice I will give you:
If they do another cycle of video auditions, JUMP ON IT. To me, it eliminates a lot of the pressure of being interviewed in person. You get a chance to collect yourself, think about what you want to say, and if it comes out crappy you can do it again. That's how I auditioned and got on after seven unsuccessful in-person auditions.
Another thing, rather off-topic...I don't want to say it's hurtful, 'cause ultimately they're just words from people I will never meet, but it's strange reading around other message boards and Twitter pages and seeing that other people found me irritating and "more annoying than those dummies on Catch 21".
I'd like to take a second and explain: The energy in the studio is so thick, you can feel it all around you. The excitement is almost too much to even fathom, as I'm sure any other former contestant can attest to. And after two years of trying and failing, and trying and failing, and trying and failing...words can't even express how excited I was to finally be on the show of my dreams. The excitement took over, and I'm sorry for anyone who misinterprets that as being annoying, but rest assured, there was no schtick, there was no acting, there was none of that. I was DAMN excited. And that's it.