If you ever want to make it big at a reality talent competition show, here's what you have to have going for you in the preliminary rounds of auditions. You need to get at least 50% in terms of a score in order to sway the third judge's vote (i.e. at 50%, one judge will vote 'yes', one will vote 'no' and the third judge will be on the fence that you have to sway in your favour). Let's take America's Got Talent as an example TV show.
If you have a great story of struggle in your past, whether that be monetary in nature, a family situation, a physical ailment, etc., that give you at least 25% of your vote - half way there!
If you have family support at the auditions, +5%...unless they are obsessive or weird, in which case, -10%. If your act involves humour and gets the judges to laugh, +10%...unless they're laughing AT you, in which case, -15%. If you are a female, are good-looking, +10%. If you act in a sexually provocative way that is aired on TV (i.e. not TOO taboo), then +15%. If you're unpleasing to the eye, -15%. For whatever reason, if you can get the crowd to like you, whether you're so crazy they find you entertaining, or you have a genuine talent, +10-20%. If this talent has never been seen before, +7%. If you can get >75%, you have a chance of being featured in the show's good highlights. If you're <0%, you have a chance of being featured on the shows worst of the worst highlights. If you're between 0-25%, you aren't likely to be featured in the show's highlights, you just get booted, do not pass GO, do not collect $200. If however, you get >90% of vote score, you have a chance of getting to the finales and/or having a career after the show.
So some examples. a) you have a great story and have a genuine talent at singing and came by yourself to the auditions and the crowd likes you: 25+20+(15 for crowd support) = 60%. Therefore, you are likely to make it to the next round. b) you don't have a great story, but you can do magic alright, but like no one has done before and the crowd loves it...and you're a sultry female seductress: 10+15+27 = 52%. Because usually it's a 2-male-1-female judging panel, this favours female contestants. Girl gets through. c) You are a really bad singer who came with his mother who is a bit crazy and thinks her son is a gift from God. -10 (creepy parents) -15 (judges laughs at him) + 7 (talent never seen before...cause it's so bad) = -18%. This act has no hopes of finishing his audition before he gets cut off and booted from the stage.
Good luck.
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