...Draft March 25, 2011 Truthful Acting Many people think acting is as easy as walking. There are many things needed to be an effective actor or actress. Acting is not just trying to do what the script says. Acting is all about emotion and character. Some people may say that acting is easy because it’s just like copying someone they know or trying to be a certain character. It takes more than that. What makes an effective actor? An actor needs to be able to capture a person’s feelings and thoughts. The actor needs to make it real instead of trying to make it real. For an actor acting is not acting, acting is living the part and role. But before an actor can do this there are many qualities needed to be an effective actor like perseverance, time management, and focus. Actors need the perseverance to search and search for projects to be in. Acting is not an easy job. People can’t find acting jobs right away. It takes a lot of perseverance to audition over and over again to find a job. Acting is not a stable job because a person doesn’t become into a big star right away. An actor needs the perseverance to be able to search for auditions, take the time to go there and if it doesn’t work out, do the same thing over again. Actors have a hard time looking for jobs because some shows don’t get paid. These actors need to start from rock bottom before they can find a stable job that will pay them for the mean time. Time management is a must for an actor. Every single minute of the day...
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...Business Plan for Acting Agency Name Institution Business Plan for Acting Agency Introduction An acting agency is an entity or a company that represents or finds jobs for artists, film directors, screenwriters, models, or musicians in entertainment or film industry. The acting agency supports, promotes, or defends the clients' interests. An accounting agency can specialize on various talents in the film industry by establishing different departments within the company or specify on a single specialty. As such, the acting agencies can range from being commercial talent, modeling, sport, broadcast journalist, voice-over, music, film, or literal agencies. The status of Exposure Acting Agency has aroused interest to give them growth and development ideas after noticing its decline in its business, especially the way it does not receive requests for actors for the past few months. In this case, this report provides an effective business plan that Exposure Acting Agency can implement into their organization to thrive their success in the film industry. Background The aim of this plan reports it to help Exposure Acting Agency streamline its products and services to make sure its signed actors receive frequent requests from film directors, which is the healthy way of ensuring business growth and talent development. Receiving frequent requests for the actors will help the company to drive its growth and sustainability, as it achieves the...
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...Business Plan for Acting Agency Name Institution Business Plan for Acting Agency Introduction An acting agency is an entity or a company that represents or finds jobs for artists, film directors, screenwriters, models, or musicians in entertainment or film industry. The acting agency supports, promotes, or defends the clients' interests. An accounting agency can specialize on various talents in the film industry by establishing different departments within the company or specify on a single specialty. As such, the acting agencies can range from being commercial talent, modeling, sport, broadcast journalist, voice-over, music, film, or literal agencies. The status of Exposure Acting Agency has aroused interest to give them growth and development ideas after noticing its decline in its business, especially the way it does not receive requests for actors for the past few months. In this case, this report provides an effective business plan that Exposure Acting Agency can implement into their organization to thrive their success in the film industry. Background The aim of this plan reports it to help Exposure Acting Agency streamline its products and services to make sure its signed actors receive frequent requests from film directors, which is the healthy way of ensuring business growth and talent development. Receiving frequent requests for the actors will help the company to drive its growth and sustainability, as it achieves the...
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...becoming an actor different acting techniques and the best acting schools to go to. 1. Introduction A. You ever watched a movie and thought to yourself this guy is terrible I can do a better job then him. B. Well I would like to give you a brief overview of the preparation to become an actor the different acting techniques and the best acting schools to go to. C. My name is Matthew Spaulding I was intrigued by this subject because I want to become an actor so I have done a lot of research. D. The benefits are you will learn what actors have to do in order to become actors. II. Body A. We’ll start with preparation 1. First you have to learn how to act acting is a craft that you must practice even Hollywood’s greatest actors constantly train with acting coaches to perfect their craft. 2. The next thing you need to do is find a talent agent a talent agent is pretty much your connection to casting director. a casting director is The person responsible for assigning roles in a movie, play, or other production. Next is location according to a magazine called Hollywood vine location is important in New York and Los Angles it is easier to become an actor. 3. Another reason why location is important is because most casting directors live In New York and Los Angeles even though some shows are filmed in other places around the U.S most of the casting is done in New York or Los Angeles. B. Different styles of acting 1. There...
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...BECOME AN ACTOR. If you're wondering what it takes to make it in the acting field, you need to ask yourself one very important question before you begin: Why do you want to become an actor? If you answer is that you want to be rich and famous, you should stop right now. Like any art, acting takes hard work and passion for the craft. The business can be gruelling and almost always involves a lot of rejection. There are thousands of actors who work constantly, but are never known by name. They keep at their art because they love it. If you are going to become an actor, so should you. Acting The art or practice of representing a character on a stage or before camera. Basics of Acting * Reflect - to bring about a special appearance or characterization. * Characterize – to know which character accords with your qualities * Practice – for close resemblance to a character to a character. ACTING FOR THE COMEDY GENRE COMEDY IS HARD WORK Acting in a comedy is harder than it may seem. One of the key elements of comedic acting is not to "milk the audience" for a laugh. You may have a brilliantly funny script to work from, but if you play the scenes as though a laugh is going to come at any moment, you will certainly kill the spontaneity of the world you have created. In order to avoid giving the joke away too soon, actors need to stay focused on each moment as it unfolds. ACTING FOR THE DRAMA GENRE ACTING IN SOAP OPERAS In the old days, soap opera acting was synonymous...
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...Business Plan for Acting Agency Name Institution Business Plan for Acting Agency Introduction An acting agency is an entity or a company that represents or finds jobs for artists, film directors, screenwriters, models, or musicians in entertainment or film industry. The acting agency supports, promotes, or defends the clients' interests. An accounting agency can specialize on various talents in the film industry by establishing different departments within the company or specify on a single specialty. As such, the acting agencies can range from being commercial talent, modeling, sport, broadcast journalist, voice-over, music, film, or literal agencies. The status of Exposure Acting Agency has aroused interest to give them growth and development ideas after noticing its decline in its business, especially the way it does not receive requests for actors for the past few months. In this case, this report provides an effective business plan that Exposure Acting Agency can implement into their organization to thrive their success in the film industry. Background The aim of this plan reports it to help Exposure Acting Agency streamline its products and services to make sure its signed actors receive frequent requests from film directors, which is the healthy way of ensuring business growth and talent development. Receiving frequent requests for the actors will help the company to drive its growth and sustainability, as it achieves the...
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...The Evolution of Acting In the ancient Greek theater, acting was stylized; indeed, the large outdoor theaters made subtlety of speech and gesture impossible. The actors, all men, wore comic and tragic masks and were costumed grotesquely, wearing padded clothes and, often, artificial phalluses. Nevertheless, there were advocates of naturalistic acting even at that time, and actors were held in high esteem. In the Roman period actors were slaves, and the level of performance was low, broad farce being the most popular dramatic form. The tragedies of Seneca were probably read in declamatory style, rather than acted on stage. During the Christian period in Rome, acting almost disappeared, the tradition being upheld by traveling mimes, jugglers, and acrobats who entertained at fairs. In religious drama of the Middle Ages, an actor's every gesture and intonation was carefully designated for performance in church, and, as with the later pageants under the auspices of the trade guilds, the actors were amateurs. Modern professional acting began in the 16th cent. with the Italian commedia dell'arte, whose actors improvised convincing and entertaining situations from general outlines. During the Restoration period in England, Thomas Betterton and his wife Mary were famous for their naturalness of delivery, as was Edward Kynaston. Their contemporaries, Charles Hart, Barton Booth, and James Quin, however, were well known for their lofty, heroic acting, a style that became dominant in...
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...HOW ACTORS CONTRIBUTE TO A FILM Actors are a vital contribution to a film, for without the actors there would be no film. To become an actor, one must possess a great deal of talent. This person must be able to portray the character as described by the director, and make the audience believe the reality of this character, not only by the words they speak in his or her respective roles, but by their emotions, facial expressions, and physical movements. This person must also be able to grab and hold the attention of the audience, and keep them entertained. What is the goal of acting? The ultimate goal of any actor should be to make the audience completely believe in the reality of the character. (Boggs & Petrie, 2008) There many ways, also known as “methods” actors may adopt to achieve their goal. One way is called the GOTE method. GOTE is a very easy to remember acronym that stands for Goal, Obstacle, Tactics and Expectation. This is a very basic approach to breaking down a character. (Russell) Goal is what the character is going after, the whole purpose for the script. The Obstacle is what stands in the way of the goal and is a direct opposition to the goal. Tactics are what the character uses to overcome the obstacles and reach the goal. The Tactics is what makes the character real, and shows the audience what type of person they are. Tactics can be funny, honorable, deceitful, etc. The Expectation gives the tone and excitement to the Tactics...
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...How to Become a Film and Television Actor 10 Easy Steps to Becoming an Actor Have you ever dreamed of one day becoming a famous Hollywood actor? If so, the first thing you need to realize is that this dream can become a reality if you're willing to put in the time, training, dedication, passion and patience required to make it in Hollywood. If you've always wondered how to become a film or television actor, then here are ten steps that may not get you the role of a lifetime, but they will help you to treat your acting career as a career and not simply as something you choose to do for fun. Keep in mind that if you're hoping to become a theater actor, some of these may not apply to you. However, all ten steps are good to keep in mind no matter what type of acting you decide to pursue. Step 1: Learn How to Act Seems like a given, doesn't it? But I can't tell you the number of people that come out to Hollywood thinking that all they need to do is get a job as a waiter at some popular restaurant, meet an agent, get "discovered" and then it's nothing but champagne and caviar from there. Uh...no. Acting is first and foremost a craft. The best of the Hollywood actors understand this and no matter how far they have come in their careers, they are constantly looking to improve upon their craft. They take classes, work with acting and dialogue coaches, they study life experiences, etc. They know full well that even after a lifetime of work and study, they may...
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... Alfred James Pacino, also known as Al Pacino. I chose Al Pacino not for the many roles or movies that he has played in, but for the passion that he plays in each of his roles. Pacino started his acting career at the age of 19 where he studied method acting, Method acting is one of the hardest techniques to learn, this involves one using there own past experiences and bring that emotion out on camera. Pacino joined the Hubert Berghef studio, his acting teacher was Charles Laughton who he labeled as his mentor. Pacino spent 4 years at the HB Studio where he successfully auditioned for the actors studio , his later acting coach was Lee Strasberg, Pacino states that Strasberg was the influence that advised him to continue acting and not to give up. Pacino’s particular style of acting has a variety of ranges from early age of starring in gangster roles to later playing romantic roles. Al Pacino influences me as a student actor for the passion that he plays in each role, the high pitch voice and the loud but calm demeanor and the chill that he gives is viewers in each dominating performance.When I look at acting I dont view it as looking at a script I use my own life experiences and use that to play out in my role which Pacino states that's how he prepared for some of his roles. An actor has to make a script come to life and make it become apart of you. Which Pacino details in each role. When he played Tony in the movie "The God Father, he showed his violent side of the charchter...
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...what good acting is and what bad acting is. In my case, good acting is has to be natural. When an audience watches you act, they have to see that the setting that you’re in, you’re completely comfortable in it. Meaning don’t look stiff, don’t try to ‘overact’ your part, be completely natural with your character to where the audience might think the part was made for you. Good acting is when the person feels what the character feels and can bring about the emotion that the character is feeling. Bad acting is when a person can feel somewhat awkward on stage and the audience feels that awkwardness. I feel that if you’re more engrossed in the actor or actress rather than the character that they are in then that’s when you can tell their acting is not very good. The acting in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson was good in my opinion. Everyone seemed up to par with his or her character and no one stood out to me with any sort of bad acting. I was satisfied with the play itself and the acting played a huge part on my satisfaction. Actors typically really make up the play. If the actors aren’t good, the play won’t be good. When I first saw the actor who was going to play Andrew Jackson, I immediately assumed he was going to be a jerk due to his appearance. Later on in the play, his attitude and his personality really made my assumption come true. Throughout the play, you can already tell Andrew Jackson was going to be this future ruthless, jackass, and scumbag president and the actor did really...
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...Good And Bad Acting Good acting to me is very clear. From the start of the movie or show I can tell if someone is a good or bad actor. An important element to good acting is being able to 100%, completely transform into the character. So much so that whenever you see the actor again in another project, you can’t get that first character out of your head. A prime example of this are the actors of the TV show, Friends. For ten years, actors like Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, and Matthew Perry played the same exact characters. They each played their respective character so unbelievably well. They fell into a mold, and it grew bigger and bigger as the years and seasons continued. They also developed mannerisms for each character, and were consistent with them through out the seasons. Each character had its own little ‘thing’ that made them different and stand out from the rest. Every time I see Matt LeBlanc (who played Joey) in something else, I can’t get “How you doin’?” out of my head. I think sometimes there’s a downside to acting so well and being so good at one character, and that is, once it’s over, no one can see you as something different, and its hard for you to find new projects to work on. For me, I can’t see any of the Friends actors playing another role without thinking of their character in Friends. Another example of good acting, is in The Wolf of Wall Street. Leonardo Decaprio, Margot Robbie and Jonah Hill were unbelievable in that movie. They completely transformed...
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...“The Actors Modern Bible” Konstantin Stanislavski created a form of acting that has shaped the way in which acting is taught and learned today. Stanislavski was a pioneer of this new type of acting style that involved more then just focusing on physical vocal training. His new and innovative style was focused on developing an actors ability to use his or her emotional or internal state and applying it to their performance. Stanislavski calls this method the “art of experiencing”. This allows an actor to activate his or her subconscious behavior and apply it to their performance. He talks about how the motive of the actor will justify an action in a scene. Through this method Stanislovski has helped the development of truly “experiencing...
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...Damian Roberts ENGL 1013 24 June 2013 “Acting vs. Lying” “Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I’m paid to tell elaborate lies.” – Mel Gibson. Everyone at least once in their life has been told, “Don’t lie,” or “lying will get you nowhere”. What about acting? Isn’t acting just another clever way to lie? Throughout my essay, I will tell about the differences and similarities that acting and lying share. Both the arts of acting and lying are trying to convince their audience by leading them into a trap of words. Both are devious and are tactics to impress or convince someone that something is true. An actor is a fantastic liar, while a liar is a fantastic actor. What that means is that they are both similar though the body language is not the same. People who act tend to lie for the sake of their character, but liars just lie for him or herself. In order to act one must act, speak, and think like their character would. However, a liar tries hard to be themselves, which accomplishes nothing. When an actor is trying to be a personality that is far from their own, people tend to catch on. They can see a twitching in the lips, looking secretly towards a script, or smiling at incorrect times. A liar would possibly hide behind hair, avoid eye contact, and make jokes to ease tension. How much time do you think an actor puts in for a great movie? This is the same as asking, how much time do liars put into their lies? When an actor receives a role in a big production or film...
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...Introduction It is a wonderful time in the development of theory in the acting field. At no other time has there been such freedom of expression and experimental encouragement. Recently, in the past 75 years, there has been a renaissance of creativity. Political tolerance of the arts provides a level of security unavailable before. The rise of modern theatre was born, however, in a period of political turmoil. During the Russian revolution, another revolution was started: a revolution of theatre. Konstantine Stanislavski is credited as the father of modern theatre. He developed the first documented system of acting known as “the method.” Method acting has revolutionized all aspects of theatre including costume, set design and directing. Directing was also established by Stanislavski but only as a byproduct of his illustrious acting technique (See Figure 1). He positioned himself as a director and guide to implement an acting method (Stanislavski). Years passed before the formal title of director appeared on the playbill. Of the thousands of years theatre has existed only within the past century has the director been considered a necessary part of theatre production. In modern theatre, the director is exalted. They are considered the authority for any creative decision. However, the director can do nothing without the actors. Directors are completely dependent upon others to express their message. This connection creates artistic progression but not without...
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