Star Power - Cancelled
Tue, 19 June 2007, 05:13 pmwho cares70 posts in thread
Star Power - Cancelled
Tue, 19 June 2007, 05:13 pmHello everyone
I am very disappointed to have to inform everyone that Star Power has been cancelled.
This is due to the lack of entrants in the competition for this year. We are so very disappointed as we had the support of such amazing groups that would have offered training and workshops and opportunities for the youth of WA.
I must say that when I kept receiving emails asking how people could get the auditions without having to do the training, I started to wonder at the youth of WA.
I want to stress to everyone now that all entrants will be receiving their entry money back in the next week.
( For those narrow minded and petty people who thought that Star Power was trying to rip people off and went to the amazing lengths of having us investigated, well, the investigation found nothing, and you simply made us realise how many people out there don't understand that there really are people who are prepared to work for no financial reward at all in order to help others. The cancellation of the competition has cost us money.)
It seems that the youth of WA are not interested in training and workshops and opportunities . It seems that the youth of WA want to have the rewards without the work. That is a very sad generalisation I know and I am very sorry for the people who did enter. We simply couldn't make it work on those numbers.
I thank everyone at the ITA for their support , I thank the people who were helping us, I thank the entrants and I thank the people who saw this competition for what it was and wanted to do all they could to help. I am sorry that we couldn't make it happen.
Kerri
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Fri, 22 June 2007, 04:00 pmWalter Plinge
>I bet that's exactly what actors thought of "Play School" >when they signed up for that. Bet they never thought that >they would have any career after that. What arrogance! Who >are these people?
This is a argument I regularly have with myself, and myresolution is this:
Personally, I don't want a career in presenting. So I don't audition for presenting jobs. Sure being an actor, with good presentation and well-spokenness, I could excel in a job as a presenter, news-reader, TV journalist. But I don't want to.
I have done countless hours of training, practice and study (okay not countless, I know the figure is over 2500 hours) but my chosen medium is film. I differentiate this from TV, commercials, and stage. Stage itself I differentiated in so many ways: my chosen stage medium is realism. I care little for performing in pantomimes, greek tragedy or shakespeare.
This is due to 'good business practice' I have employed that means I focus on what I really want and try not to stray and waste time in tangent projects: I want a specific result. This doesn't mean that another actor can't have what I don't want.
Similarly, I would not see my entry into such a competition as beneficial. It would, in fact, slow down my career progress as an actor.
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