Prescreens

Anyone know of anyone who helps kids with their prescreens for musical theater who have an accompanist for a fee who have professional equipment in Northern/Southern California, like MTCA Provides but their location is in New York I live in the SF bay area, but I can travel to LA if need be without too much of a hassle.

I know I could do it myself but Honestly its too much of a hassle, too much of learning curve, and I need to get a pianist, and a location with good acoustics and would rather pay for it to relief the stress of having to film it. I’m an ENTP(myers brigg personality test), pretty much Im a big idea guy and little details were always hard for me.

I forgot to add I found one service but Im on a waiting list and Im scared I’ll have to do it myself

Honestly-several posters here said they filmed on iPhones and all worked out. That said-you may want to see if any students at a current BFA program may do this as a “Job”. Some
Kids who have been through it help others film for
A nominal fee. Maybe students at USC, Chapman or relativity school? They all have film
Majors too.

Good luck

It may be helpful for you to get pre recorded tracks for your songs. Are you working with MTCA? We used them for my son and they offered the tracks.

My D had a great experience working with Evan Zavada for pre-recorded tracks. He also offers notation services if you need that for your musical cuts. We worked with him via phone and internet. Most schools provide an accompanist on campus, but many require students to bring a recorded accompaniment and my D decided to use those same pre-recorded accompaniments for her videos. It meant one fewer person to coordinate with and that was nice, too.

My D used two prerecorded songs that we found online for $6 each. One was straight from the composer (Carner & Gregor) website, and her classical song was available on piano trax, with multiple keys to choose from. We did the cuts ourselves using Garage band (free on macs). And since we owned the songs, we were able to make multiple cuts for all the crazy variations (8 bar, 16 bar, 1 minute, 1:10, full song) that she needed for various auditions, and labelled them clearly on her phone. Check online - you can usually listen to the tracks before downloading, and it can’t hurt to look into it. Even if you go with the professional, live option, it might be helpful to download these for practicing/backup purposes until then.