I’m an aspiring voice actor and I’m looking for a reliable software that I can use for recording voice audios on my computer. Any recommendations?
Hi voice actors, I'm just a curious, non-voice-acting person, but I've always noticed how no matter how good the dub for an anime is, its fans will almost always prefer the original voice acting. How do you, as voice actors, feel about this? Is it despair inducing to know that no matter how much soul you put into the role, people will nearly always view it as inferior to the original? Does it inspire you to do even better when you get a role in a dubbed anime? Maybe you view the entire situation differently, having professional insight and experience. Whatever your answer is, thanks for answering my question!
If you practice on your own time and are ready to look for work where do you start?
Hey all! Hope this is allowed, apologies if not, but I'm hoping by helping me, I can help you. I've been an actor for around 22 years and have had a fair amount of frustrations with casting sites over the years and after talking to fellow performers, I realised I'm not alone! I decided to begin developing an alternative casting site and social network and need to know what people need and what frustrations performers have with what's currently on offer. As part of my development, I've created a survey, aimed particularly at UK performers. It's quite in-depth and takes most people about 10 minutes. Obviously, to ensure I'm providing what people actually want and need, I need as many responses as I can get. If all goes to plan, it will hopefully be well worth it down the line for all of us! [https://forms.gle/uuhvXatQAwmWvLbV8](https://forms.gle/uuhvXatQAwmWvLbV8?fbclid=IwAR1ymn_8tAIEgwz88Kb1GOK-ffzB-iozF4kiHSCGRa8zA9TJgBpJ7tFYiCQ)
so i understand that to start in this industry, one must take acting classes and then gain experience from doing student films, but where do you go after that? how do actors even find agents that put them up for larger productions? do you just search “agents near me”? is there some secret website? do your acting teachers recommend some agents? how does that work i’m also curious as to whether or not it’s rare to get signed with an agent who has access to auditions for large productions (such as marvel movies or netflix shows), or if most agents have access to those
Hi, i wanted to be a voice actor and wanted to learn voice acting so is there any websites that i can do voice-over or learn how to do voice acting?(sometimes if not most of the time im bad at it but i wanna learn) is there any advice that i should take?
In the city I live, there's one main casting website for background/stand in gigs. They require you put your birthdate on your profile, do not let you update it, and whatever janky customer support they have told me they "can't" change the website to instead ask for the age range you're capable of playing instead. And that they base what castings to consider you for based on your literal age. This seems very bizarre to me. I thought everyone knows age is a sensitive topic for actors and your profile should instead display the "age range" you can portray, like it does on L.A. Casting, for instance. Is this legal? If it isn't, or even if it is, can I complain about them/report them somewhere? Or can they do whatever they want because these are lowly non-union background jobs? (For major films and shows). I feel like because we're in the south, they're like 10 years behind and this is so unprofessional.
Are there active communities in Reddit that are aimed more toward the 'seasoned' actor? While I check into this community almost daily, here seems to be a large amount of 'how do I get started?' threads and not many pots for pro's that have been in the biz for years, are union members and occasionally earn money from it. TIA
So I got a request to audition for a movie on a very popular streaming network through actors access and theres 2 files for sides. I’ve gone ahead and filmed the monologue i saw which is a pretty good showcase of me as the character but i’m wondering if I should get a reader and film the other scenes. The thing is— they don’t specify that I need to read all scenes and my character only has very few lines. It’s due on Monday, any advice?
I have to perform a scene where my character is nervous/scared. After running through it a couple times, the feedback i received was that it appeared as though I was uninterested (after watching it back myself I would agree). While acting out the scene I attempted to avoid eye contact, speak in a less confident and softer tone which felt right in the moment but as previously stated, came off more as uninterested as opposed to nervous. To give a bit more context to the scene, my character is about to go through with a life altering procedure, although they've already made the decision to do so and have accepted what they are doing and believe that it is the right thing to do, they are still naturally nervous about it when the time comes (which is where the scene begins). ​ As you can imagine a google search resulted in more about how *not* to be nervous when performing or auditioning. Typically I would try to channel my own feelings of nervousness into the character, but in this instance I personally do not feel nervous (this is for a class and I genuinely look forward to acting out my scenes and do not generally feel nervousness when on the mark). ​ Essentially, my question is how does one *act* nervous? Given that this is performed/filmed as if it was an audition, there isn't a lot of room for fidgeting with my hands which is where my mind first went to show nervousness. If anyone has any tips on portraying nervousness in a more subdued manor or even examples of scenes that come to mind (I was trying to recall something I've seen where the actor played a character in a nervous state to no avail) it would be greatly appreciated! ​ tl;dr: I have to perform a scene where my character is nervous, I myself am not nervous performing so I can't channel my own emotion into the scene and I'm looking for any advice on how to play a character in a nervous state or examples from film/tv. ​ edit: previously read disinterested, meant uninterested.
So let me be clear. I am a 20 year old guy who has never acted a day in his life. But its always been a huge interest of mine and I've watched actors all my life. I currently live in Northern Ireland and the opportunities here either don't exist or are for shitty advertising which I don't want to do. I have wanted to go to a different country for a few years and I'm ready to go now. I figure I may aswell go where I can give acting a shot, so this is what I'm asking. Where will give me a decent starting point in this journey to see if I'm good enough to make it or not. Thanks.
So there's this book Spangle, written by Gary Jennings. It's about a traveling circus. It starts immediately after the American Civil War, during which the circus had not been profitable, and progresses as the circus travels through America and Europe and grows in fame, fortune, and numbers. Gary Jennings spent a lot of time in the field with actual traveling circuses to do the research required to make this novel as real as possible. There are plenty of fun facts throughout, the book is so rich and vivid with detail, and all the different talents and nationalities of the characters come together to form a beautiful new color that I bet you've never read anywhere else. This book is super special to me (and I've only read the first third of it.) I really really want to create a fully-casted audiobook for it, and I am really really hoping that I can find some people that think it would be as much fun as I do! To prove how very serious about this I am, I have already typed up the first part of the book (221 out of 978 pages. The entirety of the "America" section of the book.) If anyone is interested, please reach out to me on this post or in my DM's. I will DM anybody interested a link to the script. The Wikipedia page on the novel contains a nice little plot summary and a list of characters for your convenience!
I started acting properly back in November. I'm a guy who likes having order in terms of knowing what to say and/or convey next, so naturally, one of the skills I am shambles at is improvisation. I keep asking myself if its even necessary to improve at if I want to go far in this acting game. So for the more experienced actors here, do you reckon its necessary to become successful? Or does it only increase your chances (and if so, how much by you reckon?)?
NYC is unaffordable even if you have a 9 to 5 with a salary. NYC actors, how did you manage to find a rent that doesn’t eat up your survival wages? Just want to be along or near the subway somewhere. I’m tired of relying on a car and living outside NYC is a tremendous social boot. Also, a lot of those roommate apps ask you highly inappropriate questions about your salary and job? Seems like they only want to rent to certain people. (P.S. feel free to DM me if that’s more comfortable. I would appreciate any advice.)
I am not new to movies, but I am new to the concept of good and bad actors, simply because I can't distinguish between Leonardo Dicaprio is a Great Actor and someone like Keanu Reeves Mediocre, I can distinguish between completely terrible acting, but these hollywood films, I really don't know what makes a good actor good, and a bad actor bad. Now, I don't know if I am giving you guys a right example, because to give one, I would need to figure out, the difference between good and bad acting first but ill take the two actors mentioned before, what makes Leonardo Dicaprio in "Catch Me If You Can" and Keanu Reeves in "John Wick" wooden...
Hi all, I’m a 25 y/o female from a small province in Canada. In my area there are little to no opportunities for classes/training here. I’m currently unemployed and have no other passion for anything but acting, and I know I need a side job, but I have a good chunk of money saved to get by for awhile to go all in for now. I genuinely want to know what you all think I should do as far as moving forward to pursue my career? I have thought about going to school in Toronto/Vancouver (as they have more acting schools/opportunities) but have also seen on many posts that “all it takes” to get your foot in the door is going to acting classes in LA and great headshots and that going to a legit “school for acting” especially at my age is a waste of time.. I do want to end up in LA eventually, as I know the opportunities are endless there, but I know I need to start somewhere first. I’d love to know your guys thoughts on what you would do if you were me? Cheers x
I found *an actor's handbook* in a library, but it seems that *an actor's work* (I would have to buy an ebook) is the main main book to read? Are they different versions of the same thing or are they different enough for me to read both? I'm literally just getting into acting and I'm trying to teach myself some theory. I don't want to start by reading an inferior version of the most important theory. Sorry I couldn't find an answer online.
Hi everyone :) i’m an aspiring actor who signed to john casablancas in 2020 (i didn’t know it was a scam till 5 months in the program, though i did learn a lot from them) I’m 16, a black woman. I’m in school it’s been hard to juggle acting and school {i’ve wanted to be an actor since 8, impossible bc of scams ofc} anyways. I’ve tried to contact 100 agencies and no responses, of course i’ve had professional headshots, resumes, reels, took classes, got backstage, actors access. Done everything in the book and i’m still getting nowhere. I’ve spent over 4,000 on acting materials and i’ve been casted into nothing. I live with my single mom and sibling and we’re nearly poor. I can’t afford to keep spending money on backstage and classes when they’ve done nothing for me. 2 of my friends I did acting with are already casted in films and modeling, I promised everyone i’d be an actor and i know it’s baby steps but i’ve gotten nowhere, nada, Ive been rejected for being a background character several times, all the advice i hear is cliche and unaffordable. What do I do. I’m too poor and all my hard work has got me nothing.
Every actor has a different market value, how does this affect anything? What exactly does this market value do?
Hey all, (I hope this is the right sub to ask this) This post is to see what you voice actors prefer in terms of a delivered script. Especially, in the context of dynamic and branching dialogue present in video games. TLDR at the bottom with some questions. Context: We've recently finished our game dialogue and I've got a program that is converting the in game dialogue language into a format that is more human readable than JSON. Before we start paying for people we want to make sure that the format we use is both functional to the dynamic nature of the voice lines but most importantly helps the actors create compelling performances. ​ The dialogue in this game allows for player choice and is dynamic based on certain stimuli in the game. As such, traditional screenwriting formatting is difficult to retrofit for some scenes. Vignettes (scenes that only involve NPC's interacting and absolutely no player input) work very well within traditional screenwriting format. However, some scenes have long, branching paths of dialogue that often don't lead to the same end point. So, your (the actor's) character may end the scene either excited, fuming, or apathetic depending on the player's choice. Currently, with each scene in the script we give a context and possible outcomes of that scene so the actor will know where they may be going in terms of their character. Then the format becomes closer to traditional screenwriting with given dialogue and some notes. However, with the varying responses from the player, scenes may travel all over the place. Right now, I am trying to avoid breaking up the flow of the scene too much by having simple if-then branch statements. Then, at the end of the scene there is an "ADDITIONAL SCENE LINES" section. This is just to make sure that all the voice lines are accounted for. ​ ​ [Here's a simple example of what a simple branch may look like when delivered in close-to-traditional format.](https://preview.redd.it/15oe0fnv37q81.png?width=559&format=png&auto=webp&s=cd85aa9a84daec4aee0e1343187e229e84ba0826) ​ [Here's an example of the format that would be used for additional lines that the player can encounter in the same scene as above.](https://preview.redd.it/ojcyrul5b7q81.png?width=555&format=png&auto=webp&s=ed635081828d86299709209b834f34dd29481da9) ​ I also know is that some voice actors don't want to be given a long spreadsheet of lines to read through that don't exist within the full context of the scene. Some game studios do this. However, for things like "barks", one shot lines that are delivered in response to stimuli - like saying "Ow!" when being hit, things are different. Spreadsheets or tables seem like the most efficient solution as bark lines are more ambient and characterization rather than dramatization. ​ I currently have a format that would give the "bark" lines as a table with dialogue, characters, and motivations. But, I also have a traditional screenwriting format that gives contexts and motivations to the barks in a linear format. What format would you prefer to get your one-off lines in? ​ [Here's the example barks delivered in a table. ignore \\"feeling\\"](https://preview.redd.it/fxmdhrin77q81.png?width=610&format=png&auto=webp&s=25de0da61e8bb0ac5bcf593eb2f47ba4c3de7fff) ​ [Here are the bark's in the more traditional format.](https://preview.redd.it/gzh7mypy77q81.png?width=542&format=png&auto=webp&s=368fa02c991a6dd38b6cc081ddaf4cc1502bc407) ​ ​ [Another possible table to send. This is just part of a raw table for csv](https://preview.redd.it/7mrup24tg7q81.png?width=1239&format=png&auto=webp&s=bd264e58aa880f2626ff51951112c2021622efe8) ​ ​ \--TLDR-- Important questions: Do you prefer a specific format for your voice lines? Or, do you like a mix? Do you like or dislike the usage of tables? Are there any pet peeves you have with lines delivered to you? What were your favorite and least favorite scripts you have been given? What type of script helped you give the best performance? What format would you prefer to get your one-off lines in? ​ Obviously, things like direction and communication are going to be huge in getting the right performance but I would also like to be able to give the actor a strong resource to work from. I've asked some other designers what they did with their scripts but I thought it equally as valuable to ask those that would be using them in their performance. I want to know the voice actor's perspective. Thanks.
Do you all think there's a "better" acting book among those written by Adler, Meisner, Stanislavsky, or Demidov? I liked Larry Moss' book a lot, and I feel like it helped me understand acting - and how to be a better actor - much more. What do you all think? Thanks!
I’m local to Pittsburgh and Cleveland but want to move into the NYC market asap. I have a friend I can sleepover at anytime in NJ, so I could be local to NYC… I have no connections in the industry in NYC and it’s been tough to break in from afar. Has anyone had good experiences (or bad) with Talent Link on Actors Access? P.S. - you can see my content at www.Curtis-Caldwell.com or follow me on Instagram @CurtisClone
When you act, put your worst self forward. Your flaws are what make you a complete person, they inform WHY you are why you are. Your failures are why you have successes, you learn from them. As an actor who also is missing a leg, I learned to lead with what many others would perceive as my weakness. I learned they're wrong. My leg is my superpower, my flaws are my depth, and my failures are my strengths. My time in front of the camera has informed my life, and my life has benefited from that exposure, which has in turn made me more bold to show my emotional and psychological warts. @KurtYaeger - some actors like to pretend their advice is solid gold, i don't. This might work for you, it might not. In acting there are no right answers, only real ones and fake ones. See my social or IMDb - Kurt
If I pay for a reel on there, but then replace it with a different reel, either the same size or smaller, do I have to repay? Or do they let me replace it for free?
Hello! Let me preface by first saying, I am NOT a professional voice actor. However I truly appreciate the craft, I am mainly looking to get into this for a hobby and maybe a few school or YouTube related projects. Any advice for a newcomer or someone just looking to get into a new hobby? Thanks!
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Although I'm not an actor myself, I have great respect and admiration for actors (live-action and voicework) and it pisses me off when people look at photorealistic CGI models and claim that they will somehow replace actors. It seems to me that these people think that all actors do is stand in position and read their lines, forgetting about the "acting" part of the job. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but good (or even mediocre) actors embody and bring life to a character. Although there are, unfortunately, some actors who can't act for their life and were only cast for their looks/name recognition, those are the minority. When it comes to CGI, either you spend thousands of hours manually animating the models, have an actual actor in a motion capture environment, or let an algorithm have a go at it. The first is stupid, the second is already done to great effect, and the third is the equivalent of getting random people off the street and expecting them to put on an award-winning performance. Another thing that bothers me is how people seem to think that when you have a model or a deepfake of an actor, you can use them as you wish without the actor's consent. It's not like Photoshop made it so that supermodels are edited into every ad campaign against their will. People still very much own the rights to their own likeness. And when it comes to actors, they are so much more than just their likeness, contrary to what these people seem to think. TLDR: I'm tired of actors being seen as mere puppets easily replaced by digital recreations.
For a directing assignment, I'm looking for a contemporary realism scene that features 1 man and 1 woman. I think comedic fighting scenes are really what's in my mind, as I could see both of these actors going over the top (kind of like Odd Couple) but I'm drawing a blank and need some help.
Hello all! Wondering if anyone had insights into the acting scene in Canada, how possible it is to make a living etc? I’m an American with a decent career out this way but the um…. Political climate has me a bit concerned. Wondering if immigration as an actor is a realistic possibility or more or less a pipe dream. Thanks so much.
For the United States, nearly all pandemic restrictions are gone for most states. I want to know how many people who started pre-pandemic are still acting; how many started because their career went remote or ended and started voice acting; and how many people just working a "normal job" to make ends meet, but still want to be a voice actor. Thanks in advance, you may find this poll will help you feel like you are not the only one in your situation and get inspired to continue the journey, or get back on it. [View Poll](https://www.reddit.com/poll/tpujtm)
So I am battling an internal struggle and would like to just hear what people have to say. Ever since I was a little girl film sparked everything in me that was fantastical, dramatic, and made me a dreamer. Movies have always been a huge part of me and I always wanted to be on the screen too. In high school I planned to go to school to be an actor after I graduated, but was met with “oh that’s a BIG dream huh?” My family is very supportive, but I didn’t meet many others who thought I could make it. I’m from a small town, have no connections, and not a lot of theater or film experience because here’s the other issue: I’m terrified. I did a play or two in school and I did short films in college with friends and we won every competition we entered for each one of them. I had so much fun and felt great! But I always struggle with that fear. Auditions terrify me so I’ve never done one. I have no training whatsoever. But people “say” I’m good. I know I look good on camera and I think I could be great if I got more training and just stopped being scared. But I’ve also given up on the dream because I know how hard it is to get in and most of the time you have to be related to an actor or know someone in the business. I’ve just gotten into grad school and I’m pursuing a masters in couple and family therapy because I’m also passionate about being a therapist. I’m excited for it, but once in a while, especially when I see a great movie, I get that nagging in my chest reminding me of that dream. I’m worried that I’m stopping myself and that maybe acting is what I should be doing, what I’m meant to do. I’m just worried that I’m never going to be satisfied and I’m gonna be thinking “what if?” the rest of my life. Will this feeling go away? And is it okay that I didn’t follow this dream? I know I’m not the only ones who feels like this. So how do I cope? TLDR: my first big dream was acting and I gave up out of fear and doubt of my ability to even get into the industry. I’m now going to grad school for my second passion, mental health therapy, and I’m worried that the nagging feeling I have that I’m “supposed” to be an actor and will never be truly happy if I don’t will ever go away.
This is about a particular thing that happened today, but I have seen similar discussions in public forums in the past. Basically, people will say that a thing that happened HAD to be real and unscripted because they could see how emotionally affected the actors were (whether it was actually real or fake isn't really the point of this). Pretty much what they are saying is that they don't think those actors are good enough at acting to fake it. There was somewhat similar discussion when Marriage Story came out and that script-to-screen comparison video was being shown a lot. Non-actors were flabbergasted that the 2 actors were following a script and not just doing improv, because the actors made it seem unscripted. Does this idea that actors can't act just come from people seeing so many bad actors as they grow up, in school plays or something?
I cannot agree with vocal coaches, many of them heavy hitters in the VO industry, who say that non-fiction is harder than fiction. Surely fictional dialogue is the hardest thing that a voice actor will attempt. First, you have endless choices. Let's take anger: Dave yelled. Is that a loud yell? Not necessarily. Dave could be so angry and upset that he tries to yell but the sound gets stuck in his throat. Anger can be quiet; an angry whisper can be menacing. Second, you have degrees of realism; outside of Shakespeare, a stylized sub-genre, everyday people do not speak in a Sir Laurence Olivier monologue from Hamlet. People stutter. People pause in strange places. People um and arr. People drag out words as they think. I am a realistic dialogue guy. At least I try to be. That includes psychological realism; if Joe is running from the fearsome Red Dragon of Death he isn't going to be speaking like a Yale Professor. But in somewhat less extreme situations there's still physicality. PHYSICALITY? You scream that it's only aural. Well, it is: you are still breathing. Breath reflects emotion; if someone is thinking of lying then their breath will subtly reflect that BEFORE they say something. I try to subtly capture that. Thus I will never use an effect to remove all breath until Hell freezes over. Obnoxious breath yes, if that doesn't add something. But remove all breath from a read? Never! I suppose in all this we make our dialogue choices about realism. Such choices make dialogue one of the most creative, fun things in voice over in my opinion. Where do you go on such a realism spectrum? I suppose that there are limits; it's not often realistic to mispronounce every word. Well, a drunk illiterate guy I suppose. Never had one of them - that would be fun to read. By the way as an aside William Shakespeare was a normal, earthy guy; he got fined for keeping too many hops in his shed for making beer. He was not any kind of hippie. He would have said the same curse words that we all say. He would have wanted realistic, earthy performances; Laurence Olivier's Hamlet speech would have bemused Shakespeare quite a bit!
I (28M) am not an actor but my girlfriend (27F) of 4 years is. She has a masters in acting and I met her after one of her plays. 3 years ago she signed with a prestigious tv and commercial agency and since then we’ve been doing self tapes for possible roles. The problem comes with the fact that I’m not an actor, I’m monotonous, can’t sing a lick (no fluctuation in my voice at all). I’m comically bad at reading these lines. I’ve been researching what I can do to help her out, I sit in a line of site so she has a place to look when acting out scenes, I set up the lights and even got a fancy microphone to help with production quality. I also read the best thing an actor can do for self tape is to have another actor to run through the lines so the scene comes off more fluid and real. I can’t help but think these self tapes sound super comical with my monotonous voice in between her acting. Should I start trying to add life into my lines so that it seems more like a scene, or is my monotony not as serious a problem as I think? I have gotten better after the years, but let’s just say there’s a reason I don’t aim for entertainment.
Hi! I’m new to the industry, I have a rep on AA along with their phone number and email, and quite a lot is happening at once within the last week or so, I think i’ve mostly got my Actors Access(AA) account set up, small resume, 2 photos. Should I upload a 6min sides videos? What should I do from here? How do I text my manager/agent? Are they even an agent if I haven’t done official “signing” with them yet? Where can I go from here? Thank u!
Hi so I’m based in London, here’s a quick run down of me! I started going to a part time acting school because I had zero direction in life and was looking to try new things and challenge myself! I quickly found that I fell in love with acting and had great feedback (for a complete beginner). I started setting myself goals like get cast in a small play that the school was putting on, which I achieve! Did a lot of rehearsals but it fell apart due to clashing schedules with other actors, however I was great full for the experience! I then aimed at getting great feedback on a showcase, graded by a top level agency, to which they gave me phenomenal compliments and had no criticism and have achieve small goals around that also! So here’s the question! I have never worked in the industry and have only done part time school so spotlight is out of the running, I am at a complete loss at how to get my foot in the door and start honing my craft, I would love to just get some experience, any advice?
TLDR at the bottom for those who don’t need the background! Hi all and thank you to anyone reading this. I’m not an actor. At best I was a bad slam poet when I was younger. Through a friend who lectures at a local film school, I was invited to audition for a role that both my friend, and eventually the director, thought would suit me. Some of the scenes turned out great but I still wince at some of my wooden expressions. That aside, it was generally a wonderful, if not surprisingly emotionally taxing, experience. The director and I still speak and are on great terms. He’s passionate about film and he’s introduced me to some wonderful art. His enthusiasm is catching! A few months down the line from the screening, he says he’s looking to make some passive income and wants to sell some of the stills to a stock image company. While I don’t plan on, or currently, have a career where my image is a sacred piece of branding, I do like to have control of how my image is used. My previous employer used my pictures for internal marketing and I rejected their request to use it for external purposes for this reason. If this deal is made neither I or the director will have any control over that. I don’t want to prevent him from profiting off his hard work, but I’m having a difficult time deciding if I sign off on the sale. Any advice or thoughts from people in the industry? TLDR: Director wants to sell stills from the film I acted in to make passive income and I’m uncomfortable with the idea of my image being used for unknown purposes.
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Dear voice actors, I am developing an Action RPG and need voice actors for the game. Take a look at the trailer to learn more about the game: [https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256872392/movie480\_vp9.webm?t=1648243147](https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256872392/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1648243147) If you are interested then please reply to this post or send me a DM so I can share character descriptions and dialogue with you. Participants will be given due credit if their work is approved. Pay rate: between 1 to 100 USD. Terms: payment will only be given if your work gets approved + I will be the copyright owner of the dialogue files
I registered for Central Casting in LA to be a background actor a couple days ago and I've just been waiting to get job offers. It's only been like 2 days but I haven't gotten any emails or texts from casting directors yet. How long does it usually take to start getting offers with Central Casting or is it just random? Is there anything I can do to better my chances? Thank you
I'm a recent drama school grad, and I have an agent (pretty decent - initially things were slow, but for the last few months I've been getting roughly one audition a week). I was with my actor friends, and someone said that getting signed with Curtis Brown is impossible unless you know people to recommend you. And that led me to think that actually I don't know anyone who's (young and new) signed with one of the "top" agents... without having close friends already in the agency, or some kind of connection. That's not to say they are untalented - they're amazing actors. My actor friends were basically saying that the top 5-10 agencies are monopolising the industry. I don't know how much I believe it as I am getting auditions and my agent isn't big by any means, but it led me to think... Is there any validity in this? How much are other actors auditioning? I'd love to hear people's thoughts. The UK industry is very unique and honestly as a recent grad it's hard to understand how it works.
On my last Sub Reddit Voice Acting post, I took everyone's advice about taking Voice Over classes and I have found a Voice Over Class/Studio in my City. My question is what are some Advice & Tips you would give to an aspiring Voice Over Actor? And once I'm able to get done with the Demo, how would you say is the best way I should go about landing a Voice Over role?
Hello everyone, I am a new actor and recently did 2 student slient films. I was just wondering how to put them on my resume, do they still have the same wording (lead, principal, supporting, etc...). For the first film there was a lead (4 out of 6 scenes) and 2 other people in the film (2 out of 6 scenes), I was not the lead. The other 2 roles are benefical for the film but not the main characters, I was wondering would this role be considered principal or supporting or something else. For the second film I was only in 1 very short scene, where I am a security guard and escort the lead out of a building. What would this role be considered. Thank you all for your help in advance. Edit: sorry forgot to mention that I am in Toronto, not sure if that makes a difference or not.
I just signed with a new commercial rep earlier this month. My first commercial rep ever. I've booked a few non union commercials before ever being repped, so I do have some commercial expierence. They mentioned to me how they want me to write down all my skills, how well I can do them, take a picture of me doing each skill and a video. I think this is a great idea, I do. And I've been working on all these materials the last two weeks. I was just curious, do these pictures and videos hold a lot of weight when Casting decides who gets called in for an audition? I'm guessing an agencies submission holds more power then self submitting with these assets? As far as videos go, how long are your skill videos? Can they be a little fancy? (Different camera angles, background music, color corrected, etc.). Not distracting with filters and transitions, just nicely put together VS just a quick iPhone clip. I only ask cause I do cinematography on the side, so I already have the equipment and camera/editing skills. Its fun for me. But I just don't want to overdo it if casting just wants a quick 10 second iPhone clip of me shooting a basketball. Would love any insight!
Do any LA actors have any recommendations for Stage combat or stunt classes in LA specifically designed for actors? Its something I really want to learn. I go out for a lot of bad ass female roles, and I really want to add some stage combat classes to my resume. Stuff like stage fighting (punches, kicks, falls, etc). I found one class but its about $3000 for the week, and thats just not possible for me. Ideally I'd like to find a place that films a fight reel for you after the course is wrapped.
To think I went to my first audition back in 2008..fucking hell that was so long ago. Within my first months or so of acting, I booked the lead feature in a feature film. Holy hell I thought I was hot shit, long story short, I wasnt. If anything, that feature held me back from advancing in my career. Sure, the feature traveled in the festival curcuit and the director turned down a netflix deal, this way before Netflix was Netflix. Blockbuster was still around. But I didn't my first headshot session in till 2010...I didn't really start taking classes till like 2014-2015..I had bookings sprinkled in here and there, small regional commercials and one national. Booked my first speaking role on a network show in 2018. Second speaking role in 2020 on an Apple TV show. I don't even have a moral of the story, all I can say is I have no regrets on my career. Well, I do. I wish I did the professional things sooner. Taking good headshots, training, networking. I thought I was a bigshot because I was the lead in an indie which went nowhere. Well, it was me and 5 others..I'm the last remaining actor, and I was the most non-experienced out of all the actors..and I'm the last who remains in the business. The most talented - he passed away and the rest moved to LA and drowned in the big ocean that LA is.
For context: I am in Los Angeles. I have no official acting experience and no idea how these things work. I have been approached many times for my looks and told that I should look into modeling, etc. I’m half Afro puerto rican and half German/austrian and have an ambiguous look. I used to be a dancer as well. I don’t want to spend a lot of money for an agent or anything, I don’t know how agents work to begin with. I just want to find something to try out, but have no idea how or where to look for audition opportunities. Any advice would be very much appreciated!
Today in Reno there was a public audition for "the celebrity experience" run by Adrian R' Mante who played Esteban in Suite life of Zack and Cody. It was at the Atlantis hotel in this giant ballroom and there were a bunch of people there, they started off by showing everyone a video presentation with Adrian and some other actors who got their start through the program, then they lined everyone up to wait to audition for Esteban himself. What they don't tell you until later is that this program isn't very beneficial if you're broke and I am unfortunately. I got a callback and at first I was really excited and in disbelief because I didn't expect to and up until this point I didn't even think about the cost and that I'd basically be paying a shitload of money that I didn't have for only a .01% chance of maybe getting an agent. So yeah just wanted to vent, I'm bummed, I called out of work and everything before I got a reality check that this wasn't my one way ticket to an acting career. Just wanted to come on here and seek some solace and see if anyone has had similar experiences with things like this.
So I’ve been auditioning a lot on backstage and I just got callbacks for 2 pretty large projects that would take most of my time up the next few months, but I’ve yet to hear anything back. I know that most people ghost actors when they aren’t interested so I’m wondering if it’s ok to continue to audition and submit self tapes even if I have these two projects that I haven’t been rejected from yet. I’m just a little scared that if I continue to audition and I get a role and then find out that I got a role on the bigger projects I’ll have to quit one and wouldn’t want to do that so they have to scramble to find someone new. If you can’t tell I’m fairly new to the acting game
I am going to write my finals in the german equivalent of highschool and I really don't know what I want to do afterwards. Movies have always been an interest of mine and I also often fantasized about acting / being an actor. I never took an acting class or anything and I don't even know if I am a decent actor or not. I am also rather introverted and I assume that will make it more difficult for me. Now to my question: Where do I start acting? How can I find out if I am a good actor or not? Is it a full-time thing or can I study something else at a university and practice acting on the side? Any answers / tips are greatly appreciated.
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