ABSTRACT
Digital self taping made up maybe 10 percent or so of general national publicized auditions in 2015, then 25 percent of nearly all auditions in 2016 and over 35 percent in 2017. It is much cheaper and much less stressful for the casting staff of a film or play to sit back and review digital audition tapes and then choose the fifteen actors they really want to meet with, as opposed to booking audition spaces in different cities, flying or driving in, seeing thousands and thousands of people in two days, spending nights in hotels away from their families and so forth. A great basic of the art of self taping is, of course, to have a nice background, but do not feel you must spend hundreds of dollars on it.
