TO YOUNG ACTORS; SASHA BINDI ETC
Tue, 22 June 2004, 05:13 pmWalter Plinge16 posts in thread
TO YOUNG ACTORS; SASHA BINDI ETC
Tue, 22 June 2004, 05:13 pmTo Sasha Luke Bindi etc etc
OK kids, you all seem (with perhaps the exception of Luke) to be incapable of extracting the good advice and answers to your questions from what you view (incorrectly) to be critisism. In the interests of attempting to end all this godawful and increasingly boring sniping, let me try to help;
IF YOU ARE YOUNG (IE UNDER 18ISH) AND YOU WANT TO BE AN ACTOR;
1. posting on this board and asking for a part will not work;
2. agents will rarely be interested in you (especially in Perth);
3. there are unlikely to be many parts for you to audition for at your age;
SO
4. find a reputable school and take a whole bunch of classes, get better and learn about your craft;
5. look at the auditions on this page, call the number, book a time, prepare a couple of pieces and go try out. Please note, the directors will not call you, even if you post on this board and ask them to, you have to call them;
6. look at the Companies section of this page, ring your closest one and ask if there are any auditions on. If not, ask if you can help out in some way so by the time there are auditions they like you and might cast you;
7. form your own company, find your own scripts, get your mates together, rehearse and perform, in the backyard if necessary.
8. do all of the above over and over and over and over and over again, be nice to people and cross your fingers.
Sucess in this business is (arguably) about 10% talent, 60% opportunity (which you can make yourself) and luck (which you can't) and 30% who you know, or, more importantly, who knows you and what your reputations is.
The one rule overriding all others is BE PROACTIVE! Go out and find or make your opporuntities. No-one will hand them to you.
Some of you have burnt some bridges on this board, not a good idea, especially because, as has been pointed out, some of the people you have annoyed might be sitting in the chair on the other side of the table at your next audition. But try anyway.
Get ready for an awful lot of rejection, its the most common experience actors have and one we all share. But try anyway.
Break a leg.
Now please go away.
Leah M
OK kids, you all seem (with perhaps the exception of Luke) to be incapable of extracting the good advice and answers to your questions from what you view (incorrectly) to be critisism. In the interests of attempting to end all this godawful and increasingly boring sniping, let me try to help;
IF YOU ARE YOUNG (IE UNDER 18ISH) AND YOU WANT TO BE AN ACTOR;
1. posting on this board and asking for a part will not work;
2. agents will rarely be interested in you (especially in Perth);
3. there are unlikely to be many parts for you to audition for at your age;
SO
4. find a reputable school and take a whole bunch of classes, get better and learn about your craft;
5. look at the auditions on this page, call the number, book a time, prepare a couple of pieces and go try out. Please note, the directors will not call you, even if you post on this board and ask them to, you have to call them;
6. look at the Companies section of this page, ring your closest one and ask if there are any auditions on. If not, ask if you can help out in some way so by the time there are auditions they like you and might cast you;
7. form your own company, find your own scripts, get your mates together, rehearse and perform, in the backyard if necessary.
8. do all of the above over and over and over and over and over again, be nice to people and cross your fingers.
Sucess in this business is (arguably) about 10% talent, 60% opportunity (which you can make yourself) and luck (which you can't) and 30% who you know, or, more importantly, who knows you and what your reputations is.
The one rule overriding all others is BE PROACTIVE! Go out and find or make your opporuntities. No-one will hand them to you.
Some of you have burnt some bridges on this board, not a good idea, especially because, as has been pointed out, some of the people you have annoyed might be sitting in the chair on the other side of the table at your next audition. But try anyway.
Get ready for an awful lot of rejection, its the most common experience actors have and one we all share. But try anyway.
Break a leg.
Now please go away.
Leah M
It's called Stating the Bleedin' Obvious...
Thu, 24 June 2004, 01:04 amDanya Lupascu wrote:
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> But why did u just waste like 10 mins writing that!
Leah's excellent, concise and conclusive post (which I believe ought to be bookmarked and sent to all future wannabes who post here) may have wasted 10 min of her time - SHE obviously doesn't need the advice - but it was in response to the hundreds of others who have been posting here who obviously DO need those answers to their questions, because they don't seem to read any other posts on the subject.
Of course, if YOU had read any further, you might have realised this also..!
What is it with all these posts wanting the same thing but not ever getting any answer other than "this is why you should stop writing these posts"? Do they type "I want to act" in their Google search engine, find one of the millions of posts on this site, and then blindly add their request to the thread without ever realising they're not doing themselves any good? (I think this is how our occasional visitors from Kansas or Michigan find us. What are they expecting?)
If you add them all up, they end up wasting 'like' 10 MONTHS writing their posts and having us read them....Leah's 10 min certainly was NO waste of time in comparison.
But then, I wonder if any of these teenagers actually read, or do they just broadcast out their SMS-like diatribe without listening to or comprehending anyone else...?
crg
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> But why did u just waste like 10 mins writing that!
Leah's excellent, concise and conclusive post (which I believe ought to be bookmarked and sent to all future wannabes who post here) may have wasted 10 min of her time - SHE obviously doesn't need the advice - but it was in response to the hundreds of others who have been posting here who obviously DO need those answers to their questions, because they don't seem to read any other posts on the subject.
Of course, if YOU had read any further, you might have realised this also..!
What is it with all these posts wanting the same thing but not ever getting any answer other than "this is why you should stop writing these posts"? Do they type "I want to act" in their Google search engine, find one of the millions of posts on this site, and then blindly add their request to the thread without ever realising they're not doing themselves any good? (I think this is how our occasional visitors from Kansas or Michigan find us. What are they expecting?)
If you add them all up, they end up wasting 'like' 10 MONTHS writing their posts and having us read them....Leah's 10 min certainly was NO waste of time in comparison.
But then, I wonder if any of these teenagers actually read, or do they just broadcast out their SMS-like diatribe without listening to or comprehending anyone else...?
crg
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