Follow the link to a collection of monolog books to help with your audition preparation. 

Acting on video requires the exact same commitment at a live audition. You have to be completely prepared. Consider these pointers when filming your audition. 

Slate (the intro)
The slate for a theatre video monologue audition is the INTRODUCTION. You'll find a post in the instructions about that. Just the information that's needed is fine. When you upload it will ask for a description, be sure to enter your name there. 

How should I be framed?
You should be close enough to the camera that it cuts off just above your head and someplace appropriate on your chest, under your rib cage usually works.  That's called a medium shot. 

Moving and Looking?
Hold still, you don't want to leave the frame or make us sea sick! Keep your eyes focused to the side or above and beyond the camera. Don't look into the lens of the camera and if you're using a phone, DON'T WATCH YOURSELF! Use the rear facing camera and either delay the start, walk into the frame or have a buddy start it. 

What to wear?
Be clean and tidy and compliment your self with nice colors. You don't need nor should you dress like the character you're playing. 

Where to perform?
It's best to perform against a blank wall that's facing a window. You want to be facing the light. Overhead light is not good as it causes weird shadows. Artificial light is ok, but you do have ALL day to film so try the window approach. 

To edit or not to edit?
Please don't edit. You can trim the beginning and end so that it starts with your introduction and ends with you exhaling and letting the character turn back to you and saying thank you. But PLEASE don't make it an over edited production. 

Peter and the Starcatcher
​by Rick Elice.

​The play serves as a prequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy and has been modified for the middle school stage by Heather Smith. Learn more about how Peter and the Lost boys came to Neverland and about the magic of “Starstuff” through the eyes of these beloved characters as well as some new faces.

Molly

You stop that right now. I won’t answer any such question. You’re leaning toward the sentimental and that’s all well and good for a boy, but the fact is we girls can’t afford to be sentimental. We must instead be strong. And when I marry, I shall make it very clear to this person – that sentimentality is not on the calendar. He will have to lump it or leave it. And if he should leave, I’ll stay a spinster and pin my hair back and volunteer weekends at the hospital. And I will love words for their own sake, like “hyacinth” and “Piccadilly” and “onyx.” And I’ll have a good old dog, and think what I like, and be a part of a different sort of family, with friends, you know? – who understand that things are only worth what you’re willing to give up for them.

Searchable monologue database. Make sure you get all the information like the title and author of the play. 
 
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Peter and the Starcatcher
by Rick Elice.

​The play serves as a prequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy and has been modified for the middle school stage by Heather Smith. Learn more about how Peter and the Lost boys came to Neverland and about the magic of “Starstuff” through the eyes of these beloved characters as well as some new faces.

PETER: 
(dreaming) That you, Molly? I’m Coming! Wait for me!(bolts upright, awake) Molly, Wait! (Realizes, alarmed) No, not s’posed to sleep! S’posed to be guarding the trunk, not- What if she came and- I DID WHAT YOU SAID, MOL—dragged it right up a mountain! (silence) Nope, no Molly (blinded by the glare) So. . . bright. Holy- know what that is? That must be the sun! I’m feeling you, sun! (realizing how much he can see) And checkit-out!!! Space. Light . Air. I’m finally FREE! And I’m gonna have . . . freedoms! Whatever I want. (A yellow bird enters and and alights on his shoulder!) Whoa. Hey bird, wassup? Me? Well, let’s see. . . Saved the world. Got a name. Not too shabby. I just—I wonder if Teddy and Prentiss made it off the ship before it sank. I mean, how weird would it be if they—(a chill up his spine, looks up) Please let them be okay. (scared now, a lost boy) Bird, we should make a pact. I don’t leave you, you don’t leave me. Deal? (bird flies off.) No! Come back! I don’t wanna be alone! COME BACK!

Every monologue in every type of audition starts with an introduction. This should be all about WHO YOU ARE. Be yourself and relax. Deliver your introduction using these exact words and you'll have a successful audition. After you introduce yourself, take a breathe, exhale and become your character. 

Good TIME OF DAY
I am SAY YOUR NAME
and will play SAY THE CHARACTER'S NAME
from AUTHOR'S NAME (POSSESSIVE)
TITLE OF PLAY

Example

Good afternoon, 
I am Kelvin Moon
and will play Albus Potter
from J.K. Rowling's 
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child