Saturday, June 19, 2010

HOW TO BECOME AN ACTOR - 10 TOP TIPS


1. Never Forget That Absolutely No One Looks Like You. You Are Original, You Are Unique. The Planet Earth Is Your Play Ground; There Will Always Be The Perfect Part Waiting For You.

2. Always Be “You” Never Try To Be or Become Someone Else. Act with Your own Soul!

3. Get Professional Headshots (Photos from yourselfer). This Headshot Will Become Part Of Your Marketing Tools To Promote Yourself To The Producer, Director, Casting Director, Theaters etc. It Will Help You Get In The Doors To Start Working In The Industry.

4. Locate and Call your Film Commissioner In Your Area. By Doing so You will Know Witch Movies And TV Series Are Being film in Your Town. From your local Film Commission Get Your Local Film Directory.

5. Sharpen Your Acting Talent By Taking Acting Classes. Never Forget That A Good Actor Studies Society And Their Behaviors. As You Know The Society As Change Over The Years. To Be A Good Actor Is To Accept That You Will Study and Grow In Your Craft Until You Die.

a. Learn to do Cold Readings : A cold reading is a reading aloud from a script or other text without any rehearsal, practice or study in advance.
b. Develop Audition Techniques
c. Get your Monologues

6. Phone Your Local Production Companies And Their Respective Producers. The one That Make Commercials Will More Likely To Hire New Faces And Have Regular Jobs. Combine This by Getting the Hotline Listings From Your Local Film commissioner

7. Make Sure You Locate and Contact Your Local Casting Directors. Introduce Yourself To Them And Send Them Your Pictures and Resume witch will be very small at the beginning but It will Grow as You will Gain Experience. As You Ad More Acting Classes And Jobs Experience On Your Resume Your Casting director will start calling you to a lot more auditions. You will start to get some jobs, like for a day or as extra-background performer.

8. Build Up Your Resume By Attending Acting, Singing, Voice, Cold Reading, Audition Techniques Classes etc.. That Will Diversify Your Talent. Join Forces With Teammates and Create A Play And ShowCase Your Talent.

9. Get an Agent-Manager. Start Building Your Acting Team. Associate Yourself With The Ones That Believes In Your Talent And Your Dream. Make Short And Long Term Plan With Them. Dont Wait For Them To Do The Job For You. Become Proactive! Because No One Will Believe More In Your Dreams Then Yourself.

10. When You Start Building A Name For Yourself Maybe You Will Start Thinking To Move To LA (Hollywood), New York (Broadway), Chicago, Toronto or Vancouver To Get The Real Big Acting Parts.

1 comment:

  1. Davidiyya,
    One missing componet is how to track the success (or not) of everything you are doing as an actor. Take a look at PerformerTrack. I swear by it as do pretty much every actor I know. This is the tool to regulate your career like a business even when you are starting out. I WISH I had it then. Oh and it ties in a lot that you mention above. Their website is packed with information and they do these free for us. www.performerwebinars.com. Get in on them and tell your friends. Thanks!

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