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Questions about last names, social media, and applications by sunriseoctober • last post Mar 5th
I'm in my 20s and today I just found an application for a project that specifically focuses on people in their twenties, especially actors with little experience. I've just started out and I'm trying to fill out the application and update my resume but I'm struggling a bit even after reading the posts on the side & info. online. I'm white and mixed and Latinx and I have a hyphenated last name. I was just talking to a friend and they mentioned not including my Hispanic last name because of discrimination. What do you all think about that? Also, I found out about this project through a drama professor at college. On the application it asks for age, our name, email, mailing address, and Instagram. Is it normal for applications to ask for your mailing address? I guess I feel a bit hesitant to give it out, but it is for a legit theater company and my prof. told me about it. Also, as I'm just getting started, I just have a private insta for friends with 0 posts and very few followers. Should I bother putting my @ on the application? If I don't put it, do I leave the slot blank or but N/A? Also, when filling out a resume, if you played a different part in each act in a play, how do you write that out on a resume? Thank you for your help
Posting a Character reel for constructive thoughts.. by summersofresh • last post Mar 5th
I'm confused because I saw several actors have posted their character reel on here for helpful advice from others in this group. I just posted my reel and it was removed right away. Can someone explain to me why this is?
How much acting do you actually get to do in your acting class? by UnencountersOfUnkind • last post Mar 5th
I recently audited an HB studio acting class and it seemed that people really didn’t have that much opportunity to actually act or do scenes together? The first hour (around 55 minutes) was literally just people talking about why they want to act and how they “always knew they were actors” and that they “were always acting since they were kids” - so that’s almost half of a two hour class that’s like $250 a month, and you haven’t done any acting yet. Then there was maybe a 5 min breakout room session followed by monologues, each about 5 min, followed by more talking. Then when it actually got to some solo scene work, one person took like 15 minutes to do theirs theirs and then maybe 2 more people did 5 min scenes and that was it, class over. Most people didn’t even get to do the solo scenes. It seems like you really don’t get to do that much acting in a class like this. When I compare it to an improv class where there’s maybe a 10 min warm up and then just nonstop work until the class is over, it doesn’t seem like “regular” acting class has the same returns. Especially when you could easily pay for 1 to 1 coaching for the same price. What do you guys think?
I'm scared. by Toast-WithButter • last post Mar 5th
I want to be an actor so I'll be going into acting classes when covid has gone a bit. But I'm scared people are going to judge me for what I look like because I'm from a rough area. Also because I don't don't have the best social skills and my confidence isn't that good so I'll look and be awkward. Any tips to get over this fear would be very much appreciated. Thanks for reading.
I need help and guidance from you fellow actors and filmmakers. by ItsJustALameUsername • last post Mar 5th
Hey. I’m from Turkey and about to graduate from high school soon, currently 17 years old. I have always wanted to be an actor blah blah blah... How cliche. Actually my passion has always been filmmaking. On camera or off camera, doesn’t matter. Since acting is a huge part of filmmaking -although many people won’t agree- I am also interested in acting. My acting experience is limited to theatre stuff we’ve done in school. I was planning on taking acting classes and getting into the local theatre in our city, but then boom, Covid-19 hit. Damn you, Covid. I am such an introvert with no friends. I like it this way tho. I don’t even have social media accounts, which is pretty unusual for Gen Z. I even created this account on Reddit only to post this. I am not craving for fame or attention like most people who say “I want to be an actor”. Most of them only want to get famous. But no, I won’t shame them for wanting to get famous. Like, it is not a crime. You are free to do it, but it is just not my thing. I don’t think I will ever have social media accounts unless I want to promote my work, social media is hands down the best tool for promotion in the age we live in. Most of you people are from the US, no suprises there. But can you actually guide someone who is outside the US? I don’t want to make it into Hollywood, or make it big, or go to the US... I like Turkish cinema. No, I don’t mean those Turkish TV soap operas with no passion which they produce only to sell them to Southern America, Eastern Europe and Middle East. We don’t watch them, you guys out there shouldn’t too. Maybe they can produce something that are actually creative, if you don’t. Turkish TV industry is the second biggest TV industry, after the US, of course. Pretty suprising. I like Turkish cinema. I like our directors who are passionate in filmmaking, not only caring about money, like Nuri Bilge Ceylan, if I had to name one. I am going to attend to college soon. I hope things will go well for me. Starting with acting, and then directing films. Good plan tho.
Recording dialog with telephone by julian-bruckner • last post Mar 5th
I have written a dialog and it's my intention to hire multiple voice actors here to record that. The problem is that the setting is meant to be very casual and they will interrupt each other sometimes (intentionally), laugh together etc. Now I wonder if it is reasonable to expect the following workflow to work: They establish a phone connection to each other (I will pay that, that's not the thing to worry about) and listen to the telephones downlink via earphones, while they record their voice with ordinary equipment and also feed it into the telephones uplink. They then send me all the audio files and I sync them up. Therefore, the telephone aids them to know when to say what etc. but the sound quality will be above the mediocre quality of telephony (even when using HD Voice, which can't achieve anything like a audio CD) Has anyone tried this before? Did it turn out well or not? Are there things to make sure before? Apparently, more and more people use mobile telephone exclusively and may not have a phone line in the first place. What about latency and delay? Can this become a big issue? Are there reasonable alternatives to this approach (meeting in-person is NOT possible even without COVID the voice actors might be spread around the world). Thank you for your time and I'm happy to help by answering your questions.
How do you brand yourself on social media? What is your brand? by Food_Pre-Chewer • last post Mar 5th
Not your typecast at work, but your brand as an actor/person.
male, 18-30 y/o Group dialog recording request by julian-bruckner • last post Mar 5th
I'd like to request a voice-acting dialog consisting of two to four people which I expect to have a male voice aged from ca. 18 to 30. The dialog is in english language and contains some violence and curse words and is rather casual in pronounciation. You will get some explaination of the context to help you play naturally. The recording is intended to be made by a telephone conference (to hear the other persons) but recorded with local equipment so the tracks can later be lined up without having the low quality of low-latency telephony. You therefore need the ability to listen to a landline connection (or mobile, but I will not pay the added fees caused by that) via head-phones to not interfere with your recording and at the same time record your speech to a PCM processor (usually a computer with ordinary sound card) as well as the uplink of the telephone. A reasonable setup might be to just use a voice modem or VoIP like Linphone. Technical specifications Ca. 10 min Stereo is desirable 24KHz (48 KHz sampling rate) 16 bit or 24 bit linear PCM Payment I have no exact idea what amount is reasonable for given task, but I am willing to spend 20 to 50 USD for the request itself and telephone connection fees etc per person. If you disagree with the price feel free to make suggestions. Lower bidding will not neccessarily make me prefere you, your capabilities are more relevant. The payment can be made using SEPA transfer within the EU and other SEPA countries, bank transfer or PayPal. Other payment methods are only possible if I can deduct any fees. Delivery I want immediate delivery (within usual encoding and transmission times) at 48kbps as opus, AAC or LAME-MP3 (128 kbps) and delivery as FLAC by SFTP upload, HTTP upload or CD-R (12cm or 8cm) (CD-ROM with FLAC, not CD-DA) by mail later on. Uploading the FLAC via HTTP (using an ordinary web browser) is probably the most straight-forward way for you. The CD-R solution is mainly aimed at those living at remote locations or having to pay high rates for Internet traffic. Required information - How many record sessions (in case I'm not satisfied the first time) do you accept? - Examples of your speech (preferably those which are in line with the description - casual pronounciation, curse words etc.) in a common digital audio file format. - At which time you are usually availible (this is especially relevant for the telephone conference) - If you demand or specifically disapprove any credits (you can change your opinion after reading the dialog) - Are there other options of telephony (like Signal or Tox) you'd also use? I may choose them if all chosen voice actors agree on one they suggested.
Is a SAG franchised agency better than non franchised to grow as an actor eventually by Desperate_Sugar9954 • last post Mar 5th
Hi! I submitted to different agencies in my state and so far got booked in 3 of them. 2 being non franchised and 1 is SAG franchised. Which is better? My thought is if I eventually want to join the union when I’m better why would a non franchised agency want me to book union jobs knowing that this would make me eligible for sag aftra and if I decided to join that would mean for them that I would leave their agency since sag members need to be represented by franchised union...? Idk if I make sense here but pretty do non franchised union really want to push for you to get union jobs? I read reviews about the 3 agencies and for some reason it seems like the franchised one isn’t that great in comparaison to the non franchised one? I read some reviews saying that the franchised one didn’t have much connexion In The industry even though they are in the union. And that they only give union jobs to their union members and not the non union people they represent. Didn’t think choosing an agency would be that hard!!!!
In class Acting Classes-Toronto by meinai88 • last post Mar 5th
To my fellow Toronto actors. I have been thinking of getting into acting and want to take some acting classes as I have no experience. I have looked around and everything is offered online right now. With the news this morning that Toronto is no longer in lockdown as of Monday, would in person Acting Classes be allowed to run with the Grey Zone that Toronto is going to be in or would they still be offered online. Just curious cause I would rather do in person classes.
I actually played these two roles within the same week but couldn’t resist making them into a plandemic meme. #actor by spilnerdurden • last post Mar 5th
A Freelance Voice Actor Answers Your Questions by StepStuff • last post Mar 4th
Actors on Fluoxitine? Do you feel emotionally blunted when acting? Do you find it harder to memorize and rehearse on it? (In the long term, specifically) by inspiredtobeinspired • last post Mar 4th
It's a long story, but basically, I suddenly developed an anxiety disorder with panic attacks. (Sort of, I always used to get anxiety when I smoked weed occationally back in the day, and I once had a bad incident in college where I went to the ER, convinced I was dying when I had too much caffeine when I was stoned... But I haven't smoked weed in over a year, so it's not that.) It's probably brought on by being trapped indoors in LA for a year, trying to do the right thing during this pandemic. We don't even get take-out, and we have all our groceries delivered. Then, the stess of the election. Then, I had auditions for grad programs in acting-- and though both my wife and I got into the same amazing program... during the last few months, something... I dunno... broke. When I'm acting, narrating, etc. I'm ok... but doing anything else, or just sitting around, I start getting severe panic attacks. Like... begging my wife to call an ambulance--bad. Anyway, physically I'm fine. I talked to a doctor, and had my blood-work, and I'm healthy as a horse. But, what I do have constantly now, is anxiety. And it's gotten to the point where my doctor suggested fluoxitine (generic for prozac) So... TLDR: Any actors out there have experience being on antidepressants or fluoxitine specifically? Once you got acclimated to it, did it effect your emotional range when acting, or "blunt" you at all? I've never been on any antidepressant before, and am about a week into my prescription and feel high as a kite most of the time. The anxiety and panic attacks are still happening on top of feeling high. I know it takes a while to adjust, but even once the anxiety stops, am I going to continue to feel fuzzy, and worse still--will it prevent me from feeling and expressing the extreme end of my emotions when acting? I concerned because I start my MFA program in the fall, and am concerned that I won't be able to access my usual pool emotions. Cheers.
Headshot-Age Range-Character Type Feedback by AutoModerator • last post Mar 4th
Use this thread to post your headshots for feedback, get info on your age range/type, find good headshot photographers, ask any questions you may have about headshots. If you are posting a DIY headshot for feedback, and not just a snapshot in order to get feedback on your age range/type/etc, it is advised that you do at least some basic research on what actor headshots look like--composition, framing, lighting. You will find a Google Image search for "actor headshots" to be very helpful for this. Non-professional shots are fine for age/typecasting; please keep in mind that one picture is a difficult way to go about this. Video of you moving and speaking would be ideal, but understandably more difficult to post. For what it's worth, the branding workshop at SAG-AFTRA recommends a five-year age range. That's inclusive, so for example 19-23, 25-29, 34-38, etc.
Criminal Justice through union plus by Theurbanalchemist • last post Mar 4th
Hello Thespians, This year, I learned that through the actor’s union is a program called “Union Plus”, which allows union members to go to community and university (online) for free for their associates and bachelor’s degree in certain fields: Teacher education, criminal justice, and the humanities. Classes begin at the end of this month. I’m currently trying to weave furthering my education along with a full time actors schedule. If and when I book that series regular role, that will take priority. However, there’s no guarantees and it’s wise to continue moving forward, as I’m currently doing trucking/obtaining my CDL which will only get me so far. So why criminal justice? I come from a family who believe that Hollywood is a demonic cesspool filled with pedophiles and while there *are* bad actors in positions of power, the industry still has its upsides and we need moral people to make it better. I love this industry and have so since I was a child, but I don’t want to perpetuate a problem. Today, I traveled the rabbit hole from Dan Schneider, Harvey Weinstein, and such and saw a need that could be filled. A swamp that can be drained. Not only for my sustainability, but for many actors and actresses who feel victimized with nowhere to turn. To be a watchdog while the industry continues to progress. I think not only through our art, but also with activism, our industry can be better for women, queer folk, and those unprotected. I think it takes more than just making films to make a change. Just my two cents and my idea to make an opportunity to better our field of work moving forward. Thank you!
Trying to build my recording booth, in Egypt. by MoSND • last post Mar 4th
I've been working as a voice actor/performer for about 6 years, but I'm having some trouble expanding my work due to my fairly low budget setup. \- A 10-year-old laptop \- Alesis iO2 Express Audio Interface (Its chip isn't the best; it has static noise that's a bit too noticeable) \- Sennheiser e845s Mic \- A closet with a blanket as a recording booth This setup works fine for a lot of my work, which is mostly local. But I'm having trouble reducing noise and echo to a level that's acceptable for websites like VoiceBunny for example. I almost have no budget to buy upgrades, so are there ways to reduce noise and echo with what little I have? TYIA.
Professional Actors who have made it in the industry, what was the key factor to your success? by Xmas50 • last post Mar 4th
Thoughts on Jenna Fischer's Autobiography? by ArtificialBiskit • last post Mar 4th
I have heard good things about Jenna Fischer's autobiography and how it is apparently a really good book to read for any aspiring actor trying to make it in the business. If anyone here has read it, do you think it is worth getting?
Automated Casting on Actor's Access? by hackinwackinsmackin • last post Mar 4th
A friend and I have both experienced casting calls on Actor's Access that we never applied for. They seem like automated ecocast requests sent to everyone on AA that matches the character requirements. Is this normal? I haven't heard of this before. And they're for big productions!