Monday, 17 October 2016

Working as a freelance actor notes

It doesn't matter if you are good at acting or know 'how to act', the most important thing in starting acting is knowing how to build your career and how to start out as an actor. What I have learnt from Rebecca Metz's website (http://www.workingactorwisdom.com) is that you need to know how to promote yourself when working freelance and this is what gets you auditions without an agent.

Organisation is a key part on starting and maintaining your career in acting. This is because you need to make notes on contacts, dates and times, preparation and this will allow you to feel slightly less stressed about auditions and meetings so that you can be confident and make impressions.

When waiting or delivering an audition, you need to control your panic by making sure you act confident and know what you are doing. If you don't get the part yet the directors and producers remember you then you have been successful, because you leave your details and they may contact you if anything comes up that you are suited for.

I decided to research the following:

Comedy Club

My target is to attend a comedy club or watch a stand up comedy performance to expand my knowledge on both stand up comedy, and comedy in drama. This is because I feel that comedy is one of my strengths and I would like to have a career revolving around comedy, therefore I think that it is appropriate to research this.

Watch a Director shoot a scene

I thought that it would be a good target to watch  director shoot a scene because my main goal is to work on television/film and I think that having work experience revolving around this would be sensible because it gives me an idea of what to expect and how to respond to people in the working environment in a professional way. To do this I have applied for various reality TV programmes such as Big Brother, and Coach Trip, because not only will this possibly let me see this but it will also allow me to advertise myself as an actor, and gain popularity and followers for a director or producer to find me easily.

Learn a new skill

I felt that as an actor I need to continue to widen my skills for my CV so that I have more to offer when it comes to auditions and castings. One of my aims is to improve my dancing, specifically my acrobatics because I am often asked in auditions what kind of tricks I can do, and I feel that if I can do more that what I can now, this will expand my chances of either getting a part, or making the director/ producer/ casting director remember me, which I think is very difficult, yet important. 

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