Is Drama School Necessary?
Thu, 3 July 2003, 07:57 amWalter Plinge13 posts in thread
Is Drama School Necessary?
Thu, 3 July 2003, 07:57 amHi I've been wondering about this for quite some time.
Is it necessary to get into a drama school to be an actor? I spend quite alot of time training myself and doing as much short films and plays as I can so I can put my theories into practice.
I go to paid classes I try to do as much as I can without going to Drama school because it is so hard to get in, so I try to learn as much as I can through my own endeavours. I am my own drama school.
People who don't get in are considered talentless, but I think if you let them affect you like this and give up your dream then you have lost eveything.
How important is Drama School? Is it the be all and end all of acting?
Me I don't think so, I think it all depends on your committment and effort you put in, but it would be nice to be in one.
What are your thoughts? Experiences?
Cheers
Is it necessary to get into a drama school to be an actor? I spend quite alot of time training myself and doing as much short films and plays as I can so I can put my theories into practice.
I go to paid classes I try to do as much as I can without going to Drama school because it is so hard to get in, so I try to learn as much as I can through my own endeavours. I am my own drama school.
People who don't get in are considered talentless, but I think if you let them affect you like this and give up your dream then you have lost eveything.
How important is Drama School? Is it the be all and end all of acting?
Me I don't think so, I think it all depends on your committment and effort you put in, but it would be nice to be in one.
What are your thoughts? Experiences?
Cheers
Re: Is Drama School Necessary?
Fri, 4 July 2003, 08:18 amYou'll get a few diverse opinions on this.
Personally, I would say no. There are too many stories of people with even no training what-so-ever getting professional work. I know of someone involved in a profession show where a fellow cast member had for all intents and purposes simply walked into the producers office and said "I wanna act" and was hired based purely upon his audacity. I don't know if this person went on to anything BIG mind you.
When it comes to Drama school, most of the time their looking for people with POTENTIAL, training potential. If you some talentless nutter of the street, forget it. On the hand, if you have talent and skill Ooooozing from your fingers, you won't get in either. Why?
A. What can they teach you?
B. Why aren't you working already?
This sort of happened to me, problem is, they didn't tell me straight away. I had to probe and inquire as to why my auditions to WAAPA weren't good enough. I was told that, basically, I was too skilled. Over-qualified. To me that simply means that I was too set in my ways but I've been told that's a negative way of looking at it.
The trick is to not let knock-backs like that put you off. Something I wasn't very good at doing.
Jeff "Knocked Out" Watkins
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Personally, I would say no. There are too many stories of people with even no training what-so-ever getting professional work. I know of someone involved in a profession show where a fellow cast member had for all intents and purposes simply walked into the producers office and said "I wanna act" and was hired based purely upon his audacity. I don't know if this person went on to anything BIG mind you.
When it comes to Drama school, most of the time their looking for people with POTENTIAL, training potential. If you some talentless nutter of the street, forget it. On the hand, if you have talent and skill Ooooozing from your fingers, you won't get in either. Why?
A. What can they teach you?
B. Why aren't you working already?
This sort of happened to me, problem is, they didn't tell me straight away. I had to probe and inquire as to why my auditions to WAAPA weren't good enough. I was told that, basically, I was too skilled. Over-qualified. To me that simply means that I was too set in my ways but I've been told that's a negative way of looking at it.
The trick is to not let knock-backs like that put you off. Something I wasn't very good at doing.
Jeff "Knocked Out" Watkins
[%sig%]