Thursday, April 22, 2010

"SPOTLIGHT ON NEW YORK ACTING MARKETS" (BACKSTAGE)

Some notes about my areas of future interest, but not present expertise.

COMMERCIALS:
  • Take an on-camera workshop before you start auditioning
  • Work in a casting office or at a commercial production company

INDUSTRIALS:
  • Industrials come in many shapes and forms: a live performance at a corporate gathering, a video or audio presentation designed to educate a company's employees, an event connected with a product launch or promotion.
  • teleprompter experience
  • being comfortable with interacting with a number of different people is really helpful
  • improv with the product you have

VOICE OVERS:
  • killer demo reel
  • "Secrets of Voice-Over Success" (Joan Baker)
  • developing a relationship with a coach who actually works in the field can be a plus... what that does is it creates a demo reel that reflects what's happening now in voiceover on television
  • Natural sound, unaffected read

PRINT/ MODELING:
  • Depict relationships or attitudes toward a product
  • real-looking people... delicious-looking people, but not so beautiful to be off-putting.
  • Effective lighting, how to be comfortable in front of a camera, and what her best angles are.
  • "go see": where dozens of similar types are interviewed and photos are taken that simulate the job or campaign.
  • special skills jump start a conversation
  • want to know the directors they've worked with and who has cast them

CABARET:
  • Tara Rubin Casting... "We do attend new-songwriter showcases"
  • four or five people putting together a showcase often has more appeal for "casting directors, who are always very busy." and CD's are "far more accessible than agents"

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