Brittany Morgan Williams' Voice Over Demo Reel.wmv

Help me move to LA!!

Hey all!! I am so excited, Mike and I have finally decided to move to LA!! I have been getting decent work in the Bay Area, but I really want to focus more on my film and television career and a little less commercially. I have an agent waiting to start booking me on gigs as soon as I move down there (she's even help me scout for housing) so I want to get going right now, but I know that's not quite possible. So I started a Fundrazr! I am asking any one out there who could just put a little money towards my dream. I have been aspiring to this point in my life since I was 9 years old and I played Golde in Fiddler on the Roof. My life-long dream comes down to whether or not I can get some help financially to get down there. Mike and I have been struggling to keep ourselves fed up here, but we are working our asses off for peanuts up here (which I'm willing to do if my career progresses from it). But I'm at a standstill. I've applied to most of the agencies in SF and nearly all of them have denied me. I'm still waiting on 2 of them. And since LA wants me, I want to go there and find my fortune. I don't want to look back on these years and regret them. Please help!!!!

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Itching to move...

Ever since I've focused myself entirely on acting instead of acting and modeling, I haven't been as busy or feeling as productive. Yesterday I auditioned for the Kaiser Permanente Educational Touring job and filmed a short. The short was awesome!! We shot at Laney College and I played a kidnapped wife who had been drugged and was getting felt up by a gangster. The grittiness of it was really awesome :-D Plus I got to shoot with BigSpence, whom I had met and gotten to know slightly on a 1-day shoot for the TV show 'Frontline.' Then on Saturday I'm going to be an extra in 'Now Hiring' in Roseville on Saturday. Just a short shoot, but I'm bringing my new business cards and I'm hoping to make some new friends! :)
I just booked a web-series that will be featured on youtube! I'll include the link here after it's uploaded. I'm also getting to audition for the film they are producing as well.
I'm still doing stuff in voice-acting of course! I've just sent in about 6 auditions (I almost wrote half dozen, but then I realized that was a heck of a lot longer than '6') I've also been given 3 different roles in various video games and audiobooks so I'm building up experience with voice-overs and editing said voice-overs. I also lament some websites not sending emails if I get a response to a post or get an email. I was emailed 2 weeks ago on some random website asking if I could do voice-acting for their film and I just found it tonight. Blegh
So anywho, Mike just made me a yummy ham sandwich so I'm going to go eat it. I'm super excited for the upcoming opportunities, please keep positive thoughts for everything! :)

Voice Acting and some good/bad news....

I have some amazing news! An agency in LA called and we had a meeting in LA. This led to her telling me that she couldn't represent me until I lived in LA. She explained why-she could get me 2-3 auditions a day nearly every day, but that would mean I would have to be in LA full time or else I would start looking bad. And right now that's just not financially possible. Mike does have a part-time job and I have occasional gigs, but we can only pay for rent (sometimes not even that) and we feed ourselves 2-3 times a day. I knew I was in for this-the whole starving artist thing, but I wish my career was more productive in SF. I have to keep reminding myself it doesn't just have to do with my look or my acting ability. And that I've only been in the Bay Area for less than a year. But since I KNOW I have gigs waiting for me in LA, I want to be there SO BAD!!
Every option for moving down there has crossed my mind:
-Ask a friend if I can crash on their couch for a few weeks and audition for gigs left and right until I can make some money
-Make a few grand (lotto?? I'm almost considering going to amateur night at the strip club. If you're a family member, you didn't read that though!) and get a car and an apartment in North Hollywood
-Wait for a few more weeks, months, however long until we've made enough money to move down there. At this rate, it probably won't be for about another year.

But for now it's just another part of a dream that I've been trying to make happen since I was 9.

I am making advances in my voice-over work though! I just voiced 2 video games today and I auditioned for 6 other VO gigs. I finally figured out how to edit with Audacity so I've been having some fun with it! I might post a clip of a Dr. Horrible song I did all the parts for, hehe. :)

Tomorrow I'm auditioning for Kaiser Permanente's educational touring program at 11:20. A different avenue that I'm trying. And then later tomorrow, I'll be filming a short at Laney College. On Saturday I'll be an extra in 'Now Hiring' which sounds pretty fun! After that I'm pretty free though :)

The suspense is killing me!! A side note on my life :)

This past week was our 1 year anniversary. 1 year ago on Thursday Mike asked me to go out with him as I was sitting in the front seat of my car, about to leave for Humboldt. I said yes without a thought-he's my soulmate. We belong together and always will no matter what difficulties or excitements may happen.

Anywho, done with the sappy stuff. Mike has been dangling a trip for our anniversary over my head for about a month now and as the title of this post says: THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME!! I freaking love surprises-Christmas is my favorite holiday because of all the different surprises for everyone! But Mike kept me in suspense until we got there. We drove an hour south yesterday at 7:30 in the morning. Once we got close enough to the surprise, Mike put a blindfold on me and I put my sunglasses over them so it didn't look like I was getting kidnapped. :) I almost heard where we were when Mike was talking to the parking lot attendant but I plugged my ears to make sure I didn't hear anything! Mike walked me all the way to the front gates and then ripped off my blindfold so I could see that I was at Great America!!!! AND, he got us season passes!!!!!!!! for suuuuuper cheap! We so needed this relaxing time. Since moving to the Bay Area we just haven't had a lot of time or money to do anything together as a couple. The first year together is supposed to be the most fun I've always been told, but the stress of money really has gotten to us. So this was a fantastic way to celebrate our 1 year anniversary!!!!!!!!! We rode every single ride that was open and often just stayed on the ride a 2nd time through because there was really no one there! BEST trip!!!!!!! :-D :-D I'm sure I'll write more later, but I have a few voice recordings to make plus I gotta eat something!

Loves!!

All around town!

Quick catch-up on the last week or so!!!

Starting out with some bad news: I received my first agency rejection letter yesterday from Boom! Talent. :( But I sent out quite a few more to other agencies. And recently I've really gotten into this whole voice-over thing and I think I'm pretty good at it! Not trying to brag, but I've been playing around with different crazy voices forever so I have a lot of practice! I'm looking at getting a much better mic-probably still not super professional but something better than the $20 mic I'm borrowing from Mike. I went to Best Buy and looked around and I'm also checking the best cheaper mics (around $100, maybe a little more) online and whatnot. I'm strongly considering the 'Samson Studio USB Condenser Microphone'-it's only about $70 and has some great reviews! There is sooo much equipment to become a VO artist!! I have to find a really good quality microphone, good headphones, a popper stopper, XLR cable, hi-pass filter, an USB man (I only have 1 working USB port, lol), and the software. I want to set up a little studio in the empty room downstairs so I don't have to bother Mike and Brian upstairs with all my weird voices and getting frustrated with myself, lol. Plus the room has pretty nice acoustics and an exercise bike!
I'm sending in my VO reel tomorrow (hopefully! If I don't get too busy talking elsewhere!) to quite a few agencies and I'm still compiling a list. Cross your fingers!

Over the past week, I've had two auditions for hosting gigs. The first was for a trailer for a movie and the second was kind of a promo gig, but I would be interviewing people at the party. One of the ladies from the first audition was the woman who interviewed me at the second audition so it made it very comfortable :)

This afternoon Mike and I were in a commercial for RonDu Pratt Ford in Vacaville! We were 'customers' that were very pleased with their experience. Well, you've seen car commercials. You know what I'm talking about ;-)

I was also offered a role in a movie (Cover) I auditioned for 2 weeks ago!! It isn't the role I auditioned for, nor is it the same movie, but it should be fun!! They said that they liked my audition so much they wrote a role that fit me better :) :)

PLEASE cross your fingers for my other agency applications out there and that on the 31st Mike and I get to play zombies so we can pay rent! :-D

Weekend of windy filming :)

Whew! It has been a fun-acting-filming-filled weekend!! :-) Yesterday I filmed the trailer for 'Pretend'-a film I auditioned for back in November. We did a trailer and short interview to raise funds on kickstarter-once that's online I'll post a link here :) Anywho, it was an interesting day because there were only 3 crew members so I got to slate at times! hehe. It was also pretty funny because the entire shoot was inside and my line was shot outside. In the windy cold. Not that I'm complaining!! I absolutely love wild stuff like crazy weather and props/makeup. Suuuper fun! :-) The seagulls were a bit of a problem ((LOUD)) too. But overall, it was a very laid-back, laugh-filled day! I'm craving coffee...

Okay, craving satisfied. Onto today! Today we filmed the pick-up shoot for 'Final Shutter.' We filmed around the Bay Area for 5 days about 2 weeks ago and generally when there's a lot of footage (or we get rushed out of a space because it's closing, lol), there are scenes or shots that need to be re-done. We started out at the Academy of Art, where I got to kill the air with a letter opener 12 or so times. Remember how I said I like the gorey stuff? hehe, I had blood allll over my hand! So cool (sticky)! :-D It was great re-visiting that scene. Although as I was driving home, I made a revelation about the scene that I think would have added another layer to the scene. But I'm sure it will turn out amazing-the crew and cast were all amazingly fun, supportive, and challenging. Then we moved to the Rolling Hills Cemetery. It was so windy that I almost got knocked over several times and our poor camerawoman (who was on crutches) almost got taken out a few times too! Props flew! Scripts flew! Flowers flew! So I stayed in my car until I was needed. And I mourned the heck out of...the person...I was...mourning. Hm. I'm trying not to give away too much! lol. Jess (my character) was such a treasure field. I discovered (along with my fantastic director Hyunsook) a new layer every day, new characteristics, the ways that she would react to situations. I can honestly say that I will miss Jess and my amazing cast and crew!!!!!! :-D :-D :-D

Being a crazy person in film is so different than being a crazy person onstage. I can proudly say I've done both now, but I'm not sure which one was more fun! In the theatre I got more time to be with Emily (my 'Black Widow' sociopath character) and therefore more time and practice to discover her. In film, everything is minimalized, even the insanity. It has to burn in your eyes, you have to feel it in your soul, feel it pouring out your mouth. In Theatre you still have to feel the character, to have those passions, but the actors have to show a good portion of the story to their audience-there's nowhere near as much exposition as in film. In Theatre every performance is fluid and the same character arc from page to page. I worry sometimes that my performance in film wanders between characters (which is a problem area I'm focusing on).

Thank you all! I'll have more soon ;-D