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
Re: TO YOUNG ACTORS; SASHA BINDI ETC
Thu, 24 June 2004, 11:33 amok! leah!
i find it rather hard to gather your words in some ways they are insults but then also compliments.As for the postings, i work from an agency, and i also do acting because its my talent, and i would act to anyone for nothing, because its what i enjoy.Being an actress gives you the opertunity unlike others to have an array of aliases as well as be in any professioj in the world, as all you need is talent an imagination.I agrtee that there is no way that people can get jobs at the drop of a hat it takes training and endurance, but me posting that, was out of sheer bordem, i am sorry if peole think i'm a fruit cake, but personally everyone on here does it.By saying I NEED WORK i am merely saying, that i am interested in any auditions that may be on, if people neee someone for anything then they can let me no, but as i said i dont expect to becom someone over night.I am in it for the fun and enjoyment it brings to myself and others around me, money is nothing, because if it was the world wouldn't be so chaotic.
Danya
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i find it rather hard to gather your words in some ways they are insults but then also compliments.As for the postings, i work from an agency, and i also do acting because its my talent, and i would act to anyone for nothing, because its what i enjoy.Being an actress gives you the opertunity unlike others to have an array of aliases as well as be in any professioj in the world, as all you need is talent an imagination.I agrtee that there is no way that people can get jobs at the drop of a hat it takes training and endurance, but me posting that, was out of sheer bordem, i am sorry if peole think i'm a fruit cake, but personally everyone on here does it.By saying I NEED WORK i am merely saying, that i am interested in any auditions that may be on, if people neee someone for anything then they can let me no, but as i said i dont expect to becom someone over night.I am in it for the fun and enjoyment it brings to myself and others around me, money is nothing, because if it was the world wouldn't be so chaotic.
Danya
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