Arts & Humanities: Theater & Acting: “Question: I am very very interested in modeling and acting, But I don t have that much experience and I wanna know where i can get a true agent at?” plus 5 more |
- Question: I am very very interested in modeling and acting, But I don t have that much experience and I wanna know where i can get a true agent at?
- Question: Obsession over an actor?
- Question: Is 'Hello, Dolly!' a contemporary musical? How do you know if a play or musical is 'contemporary'?
- Question: I'm 14 and want to be an actor. I have experience in general but not in a strong 'public' way, I'm naturally talented at it, what do I do?
- Question: I want to be an actress so bad but don't think my mom is willing to pay my classes. What should I do? Does watching YouTube videos help?
- Question: Can an actress have the same name as a model?
| Posted: 22 Jul 2016 04:23 PM PDT Why? Why do you want to get into modeling and acting? Because if your goal is to be famous like Jennifer Lawrence - that's a very immature and unreason goal. Plus we already have a Jennifer Lawrence - don't need another. Focus on being the best YOU. Also modeling and acting are two different careers and are approached in different ways. And professionals are not interested in working with kids who want fame - they want kids who take acting seriously and have demonstrated their skills. Jennifer Lawrence got her agent through networking. She impressed some acting coaches she worked with (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/art... ) and they referred her to agents. Her mother researched and learned the business end of the industry and arranged for some meetings with agents, one of whom agreed to take her on. Then she got lucky with roles. So do any of the acting teachers you worked with feel you are capable of working at a professional level and that you can handle the rigors of a professional career? If they do, are they respected enough in the industry and have connections that they can refer you to an agent? Do you and your mother have a good enough understanding of the business end of the industry - the casting process, contracts, unions, legal restrictions and requirements (work permits, trust accounts), effective marketing strategies, networking skills? Or do you have some mistaken idea that Jennifer Lawrence was just "discovered" walking down the streets of New York or something? (Don't fall for PR stories about actors being discovered and overnight successes - scams and rip offs prey on families who fall for that fantasy). See there's a lot more involved in an acting career other then just getting an agent. It's not that you get an agent and they take care of everything. So your first step to getting an agent is talking to your parents - they HAVE to be involved. They (and eventually you) will need to understand how the industry works so you can make good decisions. While your parents learn the business, you focus on getting quality training from respected instructors. And audition for what you can locally - school plays, community theater and the like. Join drama club. Compete in forensic speech/drama contests. Make sure you are passionate about the work of acting and that you are exceptionally outstanding at it. Then you and your parents can talk about whether or not getting an agent really is the right move for you now. See - if you're really passionate about acting you don't need an agent. You can find more opportunities to participate in a variety of things if you focus on non-professional work. You only need an agent if you're going to try to work professionally and professional acting is a business. A couple of helpful articles for you:  |
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| Posted: 22 Jul 2016 05:56 AM PDT Almost everyone who goes to an acting school has 'natural talent' - that's why they're into acting. There are hundreds of thousands of them. But it means very little unless you've also had many years of professional training and stage experience. If you give it a try, starting with a good acting class and performing with a community theatre, and find that you really love acting – and I mean love it for its own sake, not with any silly notions of ever becoming famous and making loads of money - you have two choices. 1) You can get a year or so's acting classes at a good acting school, and act with a good community theatre purely as a hobby and have fun being part of a great bunch of people, set-building, costume making and altering, scenery-painting, working front of house, helping backstage and if you have any talent, you'll soon start getting small roles. After a while, you may get bigger and better ones and could even try directing. You'd be able to work your ordinary job in the daytime and earn a normal living, have a steady income, your own home maybe, have a family – all the normal things of life. 2) You can start off the same way, but carry on with the classes while getting the same experience, take singing and dance lessons too, and then try for a place at a really advanced acting school. (In the UK it would have to be a top drama school for three years). Only after several years' training and loads of leading roles at the theatre and also in student/short/indie films might you be able to get a good agent, who would try to get you some auditions for professional work. But you'd have to accept that you'd probably be like almost all actors, never get more than 5 to 15 days paid acting work a year, in small roles, in small productions. You'd probably never become well-known. You'd have to forget the idea of a steady home, a family, the same group of friends for more than a month or two. And all the time, you'd have to be working an 'ordinary' job for maybe 40 hours a week whenever you could fit it in, ideally working from home, in between auditions, rehearsals, unpaid acting work, workshops, masterclasses, travelling, etc. It's exhausting, stressful, and often depressing and lonely. But if you have huge talent and really love to act, and consider it's worth all the hassle, maybe you could deal with it all. Give it a lot of thought - but more importantly, find out if you enjoy it! |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2016 05:51 AM PDT The best way to become an actor is to "act." While classes help, they are not a substitute for actually getting on the stage or in front of a camera and acting. Look around and find a local community theater company that is doing a play that interest you, and audition. There is where 99% of the people who are actors get their start. Learn from the others around. Do NOT limit your involvement to just being the stage. Help out the make up person, do some costuming, help to put up a set, dress the set, volunteer to assist the director. That way you will understand how to have your make up done, or how to block a scene so you will know how to move on stage, what the wear, etc. All skills that will help you if you do continue in acting. If you find you like it, have any kind of a talent, and can tolerant all the egos, nonsense and competition that goes on behind the stage, then it is time to thing about classes. If money is any issue, most colleges (including local community ones) and many larger high schools have theater classes and/or a theater group. Take advantage of them as they are cheaper then "acting only" classes, and you can get grants, scholarships, loans, etc. Watching YouTube videos will help. But it does not take the place of actually being on the stage (or in front of the camera.) |
| Question: Can an actress have the same name as a model? Posted: 22 Jul 2016 02:31 AM PDT I wouldn't. There are so many names and she could try to say she was famous first and you are trying to create confusion with casting directors by using her name And Cogito is wrong. There are so many models who become actors - Cameron Diaz, Charlize Theron, Ashton Kutcher, Milla Jovovich, Rene Russo, Natalie Portman, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lindsay Lohan, Ian Somerhalder, Chance Crawford, Channing Tatum, Lily Cole, Michelle Hicks, Josh Holloway, Tyson Beckford, Cara Delevingne, Robert Pattinson, Mark Wahlberg, Suki Waterhouse, Devon Aoki, Jamie King, Jamie Dornan, Kate Upton, James Marsden,January Jones, Kellan Lutz,etc, etc, etc |
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