Speaking of MTV. . .
 

am i the only one who is upset that you can't audition for stuff unless you're in the NY tri-state area?
my friends and i were going to audition for ultimate party show
we sent in our pictures and they called us for an audition
but we found out the audition date like 2 days before
and no one got paid until the next week
so you guys missed seeing me and my crazy friends on MTV


why do they do that?

That is so irritating. I've written so many times trying to get on one of their reality shows. Maybe it's good that they didn't pick me. Most of the shows say you have to either be from the btri-state or LA.

Yes, it's probably good that they didn't pick you. Not because of location, but because they'd make you look like a psycho...everyone turns into a psycho on reality tv.

What about Road Rules? They've had an English girl on, and I know they've had a Canadian on. How did they get on those shows?

dude, the formula for mtv reality shows is simple....you have to be either:

gay/hot
bitch/hot
virgin/hot
aetheist/hot
super christian/hot
racist ready to be enlightened/hot
person ready to do the enlightening/hot
slut/hot is also thrown in there somewhere....more so on vegas than the others....they were all slut/hot.....although trishelle looks like a bug with big boobs, but whatev...;)

hello? duh....:p

LOL! So true.

Tampa
 

I live in Tampa, and every single year I've lived here they have held Real World/Road Rules auditions at a local club. MTV always comes here, and some recent cast members from Tampa have included Melissa - New Orleans, Rachel - Campus Crawl...also people from Tough Enough, Kenny and one other guy (but I forgot his name, and I have no clue what seasons they were from). I think they go to a lot of large cities and have auditions, maybe they just don't advertise in your area? I don't think I would ever audition though, because those shows always make people out to be huge sluts/psychos/idiots!

what about being black?
does that count?
they didn't have any black girls on the last season

Re: Speaking of MTV. . .
 

so in other words, it's not that they limit their area to NY, it's that you guys couldn't fly out there.

Dismissed rules are that you have to live/be in the LA area to appear on the show.
Why don't they ever have a Real World where the whole cast is black except for 2 whites? They always have white dominated episodes. I think this shows how our society is still not progressive.

Gee, you're not trying to start some isht with that post or anything are you?

The cast is proportional to the population. Actually probably shows "minorities" (non-caucasions, gays, etc) in a higher percentage that they even are in real society.

Does EVERYTHING always have to be made into a race issue?

Actually I agree with this.

I don't think a RW/RR with a predominantly black cast would be so much progressive as it would be unrealistic.

then, RR/RW are wrong
there are more spanish people in america than whites or blacks
asians are in 2nd
so why don't we have a spanish/asian cast with one black and one white;)

then, they would have to put an pakistani/indian on there


hell, why don't they do a cast where there is a represenative of every race .. .

Actually I wasn't trying to make a race issue!!!! I just thought it would be nice if television stepped out of its boundarys and tried to do something a little different!

i honestly don't think casting has too much to do with race....i think it all goes back to those categories i mentioned b/4 b/c more so than fillin an ethnic quota, they gotta fill that DRAMA quota.

i actually would LOVE to go on the RW.....but i just don't know what category i fall into......eh.

you're kidding, right? I think Hispanics/Latinos are the fastest growing group, but they've a ways to go before there are more of them than whites or blacks.

More Latinos and Asians than whites?? Can you post a source for this info? I don't know about this one...

So according to your "statistics" the rank of number of this enthic groups in the population of the United States would be:

1) Spanish/Hispanic
Giving you the benefit of the doubt here that this is what you meant- how many real Spaniards would there be in this country?
Spanish people come from Spain.
Spanish is a language.
Spanish is not an ethnic group)

2) Asians

3) Whites

4) Blacks

Many in certain areas of the country this could be true (parts of Cali, Texas, Ariz perhaps???? i don't know. i'm not going to go check the census).

But what the heck country are you living in?

Funny, I am sending in my tape for Real World. LMAO I dont know WHY I am auditioning, cause it would be hard for me to put my whole world out there like that. I am just curious how far I would make it in the audition process. Again.

I honestly don't think I fit into of the categories ya listed...

maybe the "person ready to be enlightened"?? "bitch"??

Hot? um, nah. I think I look to "young" for that

I think I would be the "feisty, Korean, chick with the mouth of a sailor and a jaded past who still likes to party and make people laugh, while still maintaining her Southern lady like behavior"

LOL, yeah.......

Actually, it might be a bit more complicated than this.
The casts may be in proportion to the viewer demographics--which may or may not reflect the US population as a whole.

You've probably got producers picking cast members based on what they think the viewers will relate to plus what will be considered novel and therefore interesting enough to react to. They may be doing either direct marketing surveys via mail, email, or phone, or haunting the chat boards on MTV.com or other avenues through the website.

eMpTV is all about the marketing department and basic demographic numbers. I don't think any of those mental midgets even knows what the US Census is. :p

Adrienne (PNAM-2003)

actually, the last season in las vegas, 1/2 the cast was black.

um, why does it have to be about being just white or just black?? I'm just asking.... I am neither of those and that comment made me a lil uncomfortable. I'm sorry, but there are other ethnicities in this country. We are not a white and black world.

I wasn't aware that the Real World chose their cast based on race. And from what I see on the show, they have had non whites and non blacks on the show.

As someone who has been in the audition process before, believe me.....it aint the color of your skin. Its all about how much you can get the ratings to go up, if you'll have a following, and if you can bring good "story" lines to the show. Eh, it would help if you had big knockers too....


That is all....

**editted to add I didn't even make it past sending in my tape and getting a rejection letter two years ago...lol...so I dont know why I am trying again**

Go for it KDatUTC!

It would be very interesting to see a GCer on there.

But, I don't blame you about not wanting to put your life out there.

ivory, girl, would it not be funny if we both got cast!!!??!? we would SO be in the bitch/hot category if we were teamed up together!!! BWAHAHAH! we would RULE ALL!!!! :D

my sentiments exactly

but i'm more bothered by WHY THE CASTING IS ONLY RESTRICTED TO CERTAIN AREAS. . .
i don't want to be on RW or RR. . .i want something else but in the description. . .it says that you have to be in the NY Tri-state area. . .

Maybe you can have the angle of being obessed with the Great Arya and by being in this show, u can send the message to the world of your love and devotion to the Great Arya.

Obviously MTV is ALL about the drama, not the politics, because there was no gay person on vegas. And, if I'm being honest, I think they look for people who are trying to be a PERSON, not a black person, or a white person, or a gay person, just A person. I am a hispanic living in a predominantly hispanic area (southern AZ) and I don't speak spanish, I don't pronounce my last name "correctly" and I don't hang out with anybody who is super out there with their heritage. Not that I think you shouldn't be! People who are proud of their background have every right to be, and I admire them for having that connection. But I don't think people who see themselves as more than an ethnicity should be criticized, as well as the producers of reality TV shouldn't be criticized for not putting more diverse casts on their shows. They are looking for interesting people, not trying to show the diversity of the country. They dont have enough spots on the cast to have every race in the country represented. There will always be someone left out and upset.

As far as the whole tri-state area thing, for shows like RR/RW they hold auditions all over the country, and ask that you send in video (they even held auditions in my little Tucson) but for shows that don't have the history/following of the bigger ones, they want auditioners that can come to the studio for call backs a lot more conviently, since they probably don't have a big budget.

THREE WORDS FOR YOU!!!

IN YOUR DREAMS!!!!!!

lol, you know I loves ya, but not like that, sorry oh great one